Any good programs like Picasa for Mac?

[tomdkat]

Originally Posted by Lt Major Burns

It comes with iLife '06 which comes installed on new macs, as does Tiger.

Great! Thanks!

Peace...

[CopperHorse]

I to would like to see Google come out with a Mac version of "Picasa".

I have several thousand photos that I would love to have all in one easy to use browser/editor, but iPhoto takes so much memory/time, etc. that RapidWeaver (a great/cheap/easy website building tool available at realmac.com) eventually crashes if I have iPhoto open when I am editing a multiple page site.

Meanwhile...

The solution that I have found is a small app that allows you to create multiple libraries, and only open the one that you want. $10.bucks (free trial version also available at link below), seems to work pretty well. Get it here: http://regnault.luc.free.fr/softwares.html

[eric2006]

Call me crazy, but personally, I prefer the layout of picasa. In iPhoto, I organize my photos, but then when I look through my library, the photos are all in one massive library with no organization whatsoever. In picasa, you can see what album you put pictures in when you scroll through the library. Thats just me, though..

I don't know if I would use picasa if it came out for mac.. iPhoto is designed for mac by the people who made 'em, and it's integrated.. Picasa would feel cheesy to me, I think.

[apilit]

I'm new and this is my first post but wanted to put my two cents in! I have a G-4 Powermac using OSX Tiger with iPhoto and an IBM laptop with Windows XP with Picasa2. (I'm really a Mac person). Picasa2 beats iPhoto hands down, IMHO! Try ordering some photo prints to be picked up at Walmart or ??? with iPhoto and see how far you get. Both are pretty good programs but I sure wish and hope Google soon comes out with Picasa2 for Mac. I'll be one of the first to put it on my machine.

[ex2bot]

Google is porting Picassa to Linux using WINE. Maybe they'll do the same for OS X.

[nixgeek]

Well, maybe that won't even be necessary if you use Boot Camp once it's finalized. Now you can run Picasa natively in its environment. That is, assuming you have a copy of XP to install on that Intel Mac.

[Ripcord]

My biggest complaint about iPhoto (even '06) is just the speed. It's so sluggish to work through, even on my 2.0Ghz G5 (the 1.42Ghz G4 Mini is much worse), I get tired of watching it take 1-5 seconds to load new pictures. Picasa just plain has iPhoto beat here, hands-down...It's ridiculously fast sifting through and making changes to the exact same library.

[mosx86]

Originally Posted by Ripcord

My biggest complaint about iPhoto (even '06) is just the speed. It's so sluggish to work through, even on my 2.0Ghz G5 (the 1.42Ghz G4 Mini is much worse), I get tired of watching it take 1-5 seconds to load new pictures. Picasa just plain has iPhoto beat here, hands-down...It's ridiculously fast sifting through and making changes to the exact same library.

I've found that with iPhoto, at least on my Mac Mini (1.42 GHz w/ 1GB RAM), the application speeds up quite considerably when the library exists on a drive other than the system drive.

I have just under 6000 photos and it takes roughly 1-2 seconds to load individual photos.

Could be that this is because my external LaCie drive is a faster drive.