Any good programs like Picasa for Mac?

[wknelsen]

I just purchased a new PowerMac G5 (2GHz dual 512 RAM) which is my first Mac and I am quite impressed with everything as far as preformance... except for iPhoto.

I find iPhoto almost as fast as Picasa (By the way, I ran Picasa on an Acer Laptop with 1.3Ghz Celeron 512 RAM!). But Picasa is better in almost all areas: emailing (using gmail), creating webpages, image enhancing, searching, filing, on and on... but I guess this is considering I have used Picasa2 since it came out and have only used iPhoto for a week.

My suggestion for those of us who are trying to make the adjustment to iPhoto from Picasa: suck it up and consider all the other benefits of Mac over PC! (And pray that Google comes to their senses by allowing Mac users to enjoy the best free photo software on the planet!!!)

[wknelsen]

I have to say, I was just playing around with iPhoto and iWeb and they work quite well together (as promised by Apple). I retract my statement about Picasa being better for website publishing simply because Picasa does not have a partner such as iWeb.

[Satcomer]

Originally Posted by wknelsen

I have to say, I was just playing around with iPhoto and iWeb and they work quite well together (as promised by Apple). I retract my statement about Picasa being better for website publishing simply because Picasa does not have a partner such as iWeb.

Sounds like you are a good contact to use the book Photo 6: The Missing Manual. The Missing Manuals series are usually very easy reads, funny & informative. It may help you.

[iji oh]

I'm also a recent switcher who loves the Mac OS so far. But I'm not at all impressed with iPhoto.

Someone here recommended JetPhoto. Can anyone vouch for it? Is it any good? Pluses and minuses???

Thanks.

[Satcomer]

Originally Posted by iji oh

I'm also a recent switcher who loves the Mac OS so far. But I'm not at all impressed with iPhoto.

Someone here recommended JetPhoto. Can anyone vouch for it? Is it any good? Pluses and minuses???

Thanks.

I use the the Canon Pixma iP5200R and absolutly love it!

1) The ink is cheap where I live.
2) It is WIRELESS (not counting the power cable) & fast.
3) It two different blacks. One for document then the other one for pictures. Making great looking grays and shadows.
4) Quiet
5) the Mac drivers are spot on and have never given me any troubles.

[Teus]

Originally Posted by empak

I'm just switching from Windows to Mac. I got a Mac Mini and I thought that at least for photos it will be much better then PC. Now I have the problem. I have 10000 photos that I was managing using Picasa since about 3 years. I'm trying to move this to iPhoto but its probably not possible at all.
People who use only iPhoto from the beggining probably don't understand this. They think that it is like it should be. If you look at the list of functions, mayby iPhoto has more (this is what I thought). But to do something with iPhoto I need 10 times more time. I can't accept that after holiday I will spend 10 days putting them inside iPhoto (with picasa it takes 10 minutes).

My only hope is that google will make iPhoto for mac.

I completely agree with the above. I have some 14000 foto's, wich Picasa handle's with ease on my pentium M 1g notebook. On my Mac Mini with 1.25g (OSX 10.4) you cannot manage that amount of pictures. Even with iPhoto 6 it takes ages. Not to mention that iPhoto creates its own directory structure, wich completly ruins my own carefully built up structure. Because that is how I organise my picture's. Picasa leaves that all in tact. And since Google has introduced Picasaweb one can publish its own photo's on the web for FREE. It works like very, very easy!.
Don't get me wrong, i like the Mac but i don't like iPhoto. I think Apple (or Google) has to come up with something way faster and that leave's my directory structure intact. (because thats how I organise my picture's)
Strange because iTunes works the same on Pc and Mac. Same speed and ease of use. And (if you wich) leaves your directory structure intact.

Mac Mini 1.25 OSX 10.4
JVC MP-XP731 notebook
Amd homebrew Pc

[sjkulit]

does anybody know a software that can do collage for mac?

[bluedepth]

I recently bought a Mac Mini with the Intel Core Duo. It sits next to my big Dell desktop at home - and I do almost everything on my Mac, except for City of Heroes (a game) and Picasa.

I manage a huge pile of multimegabyte digital pictures and iPhoto wanted to duplicate all of my files turning my "organized by folder" design into junk. Picasa doesn't do that and that's why I use Picasa on my Dell. I won't use iPhoto at all because it's super-aggressive and not really configurable to allow the behavior that I prefer, using folders to organize my photos. Even with iPhoto '06 and turning the option on for it to make aliases, once it got to my Paris pictures it just bogged down, making folders of thousands of aliases - why not just behave like Picasa? It just seems like way too much work to accomplish something rather simple.

Anyhow, iPhoto is too slow, too un-configurable with an absurd amount of data duplication for the photos themselves and I would pay for Picasa, say $30. So far with the "freeware" photo utilities I've seen for the Mac, many of them are cute to sort through stuff I save from the web - but not a single one is good enough to handle my collection of digital photos.