Any good programs like Picasa for Mac?

[lurk]

Yep. I ran an old TiBook for a year off of an external firewire drive, it was like getting a new machine it was so fast. ;-)

[empak]

There is a way to install picasa on Mac (intel). You have to use Parallels Desktop emulator. I use it to run Windows aps which I still need. Today I tried to instal Picasa
and it works very very well. It is much faster then iPhoto6 on the same computer.
I did not expected too much because emulator emulates graphics card (no hardware accelerator) and Picasa should be slow on it. But picasa works amazingly fast. When I browse through photos making modifications to them I can jump to the next photo instanly. In iPhoto6 on the same computer (1.83GHz CoreDuo with 2GB RAM) after avery modification I have to wait 2s to move to next photo. On Picasa it is ZERO seconds.

No I have to check if I can use Picasa to menage pictures that are stored on OSX part of hard disk.

[TeleCarlos]

Ok... so I'm a new convert.... still have my Dell desktop, my macbook to arrive tomorrow.

I loved Picassa since the first time I opened it! It was so easy to use for a numbnut like me, especially the email pics thru your gmail thing, super great that it re-sizes them.

I tried using iPhoto a few months ago on my now ex's iBook and really, just stared at it trying to decipher what I was trying to do and stuff. Ok, so iPhoto may be good, but how come that I was able to use Picassa so fast on a first try?!?!

Anyway, recent convert here and love all the other Apple stuff... I swear will get Parallels just to be able run Picassa. Nice forum... will be seeing it a lot soon!

[Ynought]

so it sounds like, 'no'. iPhoto is the 'best' option for Macs. I personally hate it. I mean, /hate/. It kills my system. I love my photos but rarely look at them because of iPhoto. It really kills, i mean kills, my machine. I don't think I should have to upgrade a Powerbook G4 just to /look/ at (nevermind edit) photos. but regardless, it sounds like the answer is 'no'....too bad.

[omnix]

Originally Posted by fryke

Another thing: Since iPhoto _does_ have good management with meta-data, it should basically never be a big problem to switch to _another_ good program that handles meta-data. So *I*'d just let iPhoto handle the stuff the way it wants to.

Fryke, I disagree. Instead of storing metadata (like category assignments, star ratings, etc) _in_ the image file itself -- a strategy that would allow for portability should one ever want to switch to another photo-organizing app -- iPhoto stores all this metadata in its own proprietary database file. Yes there are scripts and whatnot that attempt to export this metadata if desired, but it's imperfect and a real pain.

Google's Picasa, by comparison, stores metadata in the IPTC headers of the image file itself, which I like a lot. I hope a future version of iPhoto will adopt this approach, but right now I'm not terribly optimistic.

[erikD]

I can't guarantee anything, but I would be quite surprised if Picasa3 was not available for OS X.

The reason as to why I believe this is that, when Picasa for Linux was released, it was stated that the reason it had to run in Wine was that Picasa used Windows libraries. The dependencies on these libraries were to be removed in Picasa 3, so that it could be a true cross-platform application. It was also stated that the only reason that Picasa used those libraries was that it had been that way before it was purchased by Google. It was much the same way with Google Earth.

[omnix]

from http://picasa.google.com/support/bin...12569&topic=-1

Is Picasa available for the Mac?

Picasa isn't currently available for Mac OS. Right now we're putting all of our energy into making Picasa the best program we can. We realize that a lot of digital photographers would like us to offer a Mac version, and we may consider this option in the future.

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probably the main obstacle to Picasa development on OSX at present is iPhoto.

[rw58]

Here's one for you. Jet Photo does a lot including moving photos to a web site you create. Good luck... Try this link:

http://www.jetphotosoft.com/web/