Any good programs like Picasa for Mac?

[JJiMAC]

Entropos & bsirons, OK first I will get rid of my initial reaction when I read the log name bsirons. As a former golfer I was prepared to have a little fun with you and use some creative liberty of expression interpreting that user name...but then thought better of it. Since I last posted I talked to a friend and he highly recommended the Photoshop Elements program for Mac, The latest Mac version is 4. He has a PC and works with Elements 5. bsirons, you mentioned Parallels Desktop. I don't recognize that term... Please tell me more. Thanks.
JJ

[sylense]

bsirons, I agree that opening another application to view video files was a dealbreaker for me to.

Picasa will play video files within the program, so that's another point in its favor.

[Caledai]

I have used both Picassa and iPhoto, as well as other PC Apps and Graphic Converter for Both Classic and Mac OS X.

Personally my preference is still Picasa for the following reasons.
* It doesn't move my photos around - it works with the structure
* The workflow is great - which I don't see in iPhoto.
* Many More

The disadvantages
* Lack of Panoramic support.
* No Bonjour Sharing which iPhoto supports.

I looked at iPhoto for a while on a G4 mac - and its ok - but not great.
With nothing else to compare it to - it excels, but once you get into free competition - Picassa wins out.

I hope they do port it over, and also enable Bonjour Sharing between both Picassa and iPhoto.

Graphic Converter last I looked - still had its roots in the classic environment despite being a Universal download, many dialog boxes were exactly the same as when I used it extensively about 8 years ago under the classic environment.

I do like the integration iPhoto and iWeb have but I found that Site@Home was a better web design product for novices then iWeb but its no longer under production.

I have got people who use Picassa to understand how to do simple tasks, such as bulk resizing, a lot easier then those under iPhoto.

Picassa 3 for Mac - when it comes out - will be installed.
If it integrates as well as iPhoto does - so much the better.

[JJiMAC]

Have you ever used Photoshop elements?

[Caledai]

Originally Posted by JJiMAC

Have you ever used Photoshop elements?

Photoshop Elements is not free like iPhoto, Picasa and some alternatives.
While it is fairly powerful, its a Mid Class Application, between Album Applications such as iPhoto, Picassa etc, and the more powerful suites - such as Photoshop.

From memory Adobe released Adobe Photoshop Album Starter as a competitor to products such as picasa giving them low, mid and upper range tools in Digital Imaging, but this like Picasa is a windows only product.

[JJiMAC]

Caledai,
Thanks...I have an iMac and am currently testing Picasa. I have uploaded some albums from iPhoto to Picasa and have used Picasa to send these albums to friends experimentally right now. As yet I have not used Picasa to alter any of these photos ... it isn't readily apparent yet to me where they seem to be hiding those apparatuses for lack of a better word. i have Photoshop Elements 4 for Mac on it's way to me and am anxious to receive the program so I can get the creative juices flowing on some of this photography I enjoy sending out. I like Picasa for sending out albums to friends and relatives. Have used Shutterfly for 7 years and have over 80 albums stored with them but am glad i backed up those photos on disc. Shutterfly is OK but once they get your photos, people that want to reproduce them really can't do that by downloading them. If I send out an album using Picasa at least my daughter in Tucson can download from picasa and get good reproduction. Just ranting a bit.
JJ

[Quirky Bear]

Thank you to AlanR for your recommendation of iPhoto Buddy. I'm quite frustrated with iPhoto and it seems that this program will address some of my issues with it.

I just heard of this forum today, and am delighted that it is here.

[JJiMAC]

Quirky Bear,
In What way did you find iPhoto Buddy to address your issues with iPhoto?