Introducing Picasa for Mac (beta)

[MrPeterfranck]

I have installed, re-moved and re-installed picasa on my mac, but it will not work. It crashes after a few seconds after opening the application. Can anybody helP?

[aghzizo]

do i have to creat a blogg so i can share my pics on the web`??

i coulde'nt send the can any one help? thanks.

[JustinNeverSayNever7]

Picasa For MAc, I would like to try this.

[zappr5]

Geeze Google, what ever you do, don't offer a download link.

[petertech24]

picasa is a excellent tool for windows and now are in mac. Great

[gj75845]

meh iPhoto

[freeeeeemusic]

Download over 300 video and audio editing tools from one SINGLE ftp for free. Just google for Aries-Films and see how many great video plugins, sound effects and programs out there

[thailandretirement]

I found this very interesting.

[randomandpointless]

can u merge two pictues on this program?

[macnerd93]

you mean photo stitching?

[Macrosoftech]

I think this looks interesting but I don't think i'll get it. I think iPhoto looks better and has pretty much all the features that this has. I would recommend waiting for a better version before getting this.

[MeltedPuke]

yes .., quite

[cbg777]

I use everything Google but this new Picasa program is a cluster fuck.

I want the old Picasa/iPhoto exporter to work with iPhoto 09.

[GreayStatia]

is there a picasa 4?

[djmisplacedmarblesTV]

whats this thing like with duplicates ... iPhoto is well, ..not good.... duplicate annihilator isn't much better .. I've millions and need a pointer ... will Picasa sort out my duplicate dilemma .. that strictly speaking iPhoto caused.

[Dunkleosteus3691]

The tute shows what looks like adding text-as-watermark.  It that true? I have a friend who's running a PC and has no knowledge of such things as watermarking. She wants to protect such images as she posts in her gallery for "display only."

[desigurl1008]

picasa and iphoto are about the same..except picasa has more editing options.

[MacMan6294]

although i do use this on my PC, if i had a mac i would ONLY use iphoto because it beast the living crap out of picasa

[AGROvate]

Stupid question I'm sure...I installed picasa on my mac and eventually closed it. Now I can't find where the application is to launch it. Where the hell would it be...it's not in applications and I did a search for picasa.app and found nothing.

[mayonse]

i think it should be in the downloads folder...

[cyber797]

just try spotlighting "picasa" instead of pacasa.app

If it doesn't find it, you must have unistalled it or something. in that case just redownload it :)

[andersdrakkar]

Go to the finder and click on the "applications" tab on the left column and it should be in that folder.

[aeimom]

Is it in your hard drive under "apps"? If not, just use your "finder"

[mishinka]

it's all about Picasa doing free web sharing (not $99/year MobileMe-based) AND not "re-organizing" your pictures like iPhoto does. iPhoto is a good program (I love the Books you can print...) BUT it's bloated and I hate how it packs all your pictures in 100+ folders...a nightmare when you need to move them...Picasa is the smart, more open-source-ish choice that won't trap you, folks (IMHO).

[ManVsSelf]

For the record, google does not allow people to view the picasa source code, so in theory they cold make it a pay service at any time they wish.

[mishinka]

ManVsSelf is technically right...and this may come into play someday. So far so good in regard to Google's intent and playing fast, loose and free. But open-source it is not. Cheers!

[NURDsterr]

picasa is ok, the interface looks ok and I like the fact that you can use both iPhoto and Picasa at the same time

[onehippychick]

Picasa is better than i-photo

[gabriellehuntley]

i think i like iPhoto too much to even try this. it looks like iphoto is a better version of a similar program.

[omghom]

so, which one is better? iPhoto or Picasa?

[p0ssumman]

See my other reply ...

[angelvoice58]

iPhoto is waaaay better

in my opinion

[ichigo449]

picasa vs iphoto who wins?

[p0ssumman]

iphoto 100%...I mean i'm only looking picasa as an alternative for my gf cause she loves iPhoto but doesnt have a mac...

[onehippychick]

picasa it creates slideshows does a zoom. it is better.

[nancyglezhdez]

iphoto..picasa is ugly and has less features

[mytubegermany]

Picsa mag gut sein, aber der Sprecher im Video macht einen gehetzten Eindruck und macht mich nervös (er würde in einer Schule nichts taugen).

[margdar]

I <3 you, Google.

[emogreengummiebear]

uhmmm...wtf..???

[sanjmeh]

ok, so I am about to download picasa for mac (I have an intel machine). Any one having a bad experience with picasa on MAC? I mean with iphoto also working side by side, does picasa create a mess? For sure picassa would be faster as I saw it on PC. iphoto has slowed down a lot after my number of photos crossed 10000.

[greekmonstervt91]

gmail offers nearly 3bg mail storage, so you'll never need to delete another message. this huge data storage is financed by advertising. all incoming and outgoing mails are scoured for certain kewwords to display content related ads next to the emails. thus google knows the entire contents of the mails of its users and is able to even sort them by keywords. google is also collecting user-data in other ways. the google homepage sets a cookie on the client-compuer which is valid until 2038

[izak1992]

PICASA IS THE BEST !

[twupicketer]

Hmmmmm...It would be great if the video was in focus. What one thing makes a photo unusable? OUT OF FOCUS!

Oh maybe it is only out of focus on my Mac???

DGM

[carlchomko]

Click HQ

[guillermoiscar]

How about making it work with slightly older macs? The Picasa beta worked only on Intel powered Macs... I have a 1.5 GHzPowerPC G4 and cannot use Picassa. Its only 4 years old!

[syd0z]

which in human terms is like 40! :-)

[aux3ug]

now i could buy my mac ! ;-)

[abobaqi]

abobaqi

[hopefloats33]

I have to find SOMETHING other than iPhoto. I load photos from my camera into the program, the thumbnails show up, but a double click to enlarge brings me that gray screen with the exclamation point. All my photos now have it and I can't do anything with them. Tried the recommended remedy twice...still nothing! I'm done!

[MXCORRAD]

molto interessante ma poco leggibile (per scarsa definizione dei particolari)

[gatizzz]

The uploads rulzzzzz

[bajakat]

The uploads sucks

[devin6687]

Why would you ever want to use Picasa. It's terrible. The Windows version has given me so many problems. Lately, it's been taking our photos and giving them the improper dates.

[awsomoV3]

That's because it's Windows.....

[qcok222]

Oh god, that wonderful! I've been waiting for Mac Picasa for the last couple of years. iPhoto approach to store photos (with linking or copying files to the Libarary, doesn't matter) IMHO is terrible. Picasa got the right point on that.

Hey people, now we have a choice how to store our photos and which tool to use on Macs, isn't this good?

[aristotledude]

What is so terrible about it? Do you have a shortage of space on your boot drive or is it some kind of control thing? Are you a recent switcher by any chance?

You are not gaining anything by wasting your time trying to organize things manually.

[qcok222]

I just like the process of organizing things. And mess in the library, which could be easy damaged, not my choice anyway.

[trilobite1985]

I'm sceptical to iphoto too. I love itunes, but iphoto is somewhat..strange. Its the directory structure and how and where the photos are stored - no fast way to get to them. And when you have imgs like comics, paintings etc., that are not photos, it gets even worse... (talkin bout 08, havent seen 09)

[aristotledude]

Too each their own. I use iPhoto for my "Photos" that I take personally or ones other people send to me. For all of my other images, I keep them in directories under ~/Pictures/ accessing them from the Finder, Spotlight search or Open File dialogs. My philosophy is to use the right tool for the job.

[soultradermusic]

lol, oh that is classic....39 seconds, you gotta love the auto red eye reduction....'how to turn your eyes green in one easy step'. Well done Google, all that money and ya quality control on ya promotional material is non existent.

[kilgoretrout321]

ummm don't buy a new mac, buy one of those 300 or 400 dollar little notebooks and use it to run all of these programs off the internet. if you really need the power of a photoshop, buy a real computer. otherwise, you can save a ton of money and lose nothing. it's not what you have, it's what you use and how you use it. and yes, i read Wired magazine.

[AnnieKItten]

Can you edit videos as well?!?!?!

[retrac1324]

Nope

[maryfranlynch]

Pretty great tool, for FREE!

[kf6auf]

Come on google. Not all of us have cushy software jobs making 80k a year to buy a new Mac every couple years and still run PPC.

[likewhoa23]

So it will only work for an intel mac. Gee. Thanks. I was so siked until I downloaded it and I got that message.

[Agathena]

I only want to use it for finding photos and organizing. Why use it for editing when I have Photoshop?

[hanne333]

I dislike iphoto intensely. The way it lists photos as a roll even if there is only one picture there. I use Aperture and am quite happy with it. How would Picasa supplement Aperture?

[iconcept]

picasa is free.

[raumbild]

havn't heart about that google does something for free........think a few steps further to see what you pay for it

[ivanbesack]

Picasa is great for sharing your photo album son line with friends and family - quick upload times and easy sharing features BUT it is not a great photo editing program. Comparing it to iphoto is ridiculous and everything Picasa does is redundant.

[catubeornotube]

I used Picasso to retrieve my photos from a "dead" computer IBM-like computer that I fortunately used Picasso on! It doesn't matter to me what else it does, as long as I did not lose my photos!

[flexor212000]

Picasa hasn't ever edited or touched the actual files. iPhoto does a horrible job with organization. It renames all of your files and creates folders. it names them with just random numbers like 001-0010 and all of this. Thats the name of the folders! How are you supposed to find your original files when it renames them and shoves them into folders? Picasa does not do that. i've been using it for years on my PC and now my wife can finally use it for her mac. She has thousands of photos.

[speedoflanding]

Why would you download this crap if you have iPhoto?

[etal55]

I think people are confusing iPhoto and photoshop.

[SavilliMillard]

I prefere iPhoto '09 .

[jesuslovesu63]

isnt that what iphotos for?

[mjnaik]

this is free you idiot. so insteas of paying around 70$ for iphoto, you can get another photo management tool for FREE! GO PICASA!

[mamani12345]

hiii

[jesuslovesu63]

mhmm so is iphoto. it comes bundeled with every mac as apart i life. retard

[mjnaik]

ok....how about this....iphoto is only for the mac...picasa is for both mac and pc and works GREAT on linux with wine so...um....more people can use it...unlike iphoto which if you want to use it you have to buy a mac. and when ilife '10 comes out, another $70. nothing against ilife. great product. im just saying that picasa can do the same thing for free.

[stankwho]

I prefere iPhoto 09

[sergei919191]

yah!!!

[flowervid]

The photos on this video do not look sharp (cloudy and fuzzy) and do not do justice to the product. It also needs a better voice for the narration.

[boobtube68679]

try watching it in HD

[fatsotomuscles]

Dammit! I should have waited for it...Now it feels like I wasted 200 bones for Aperture when Picasa is free!

[smellymichele]

Well... you can still download it! But it doesn't bring the $200 back, sure, but Aperture has capabilities that Picasa can't touch. Picasa's no Photoshop.

[nbkw17w]

Aperture is a professional grade photo editing and organizing tool, similar to Adobe Lightroom 2. While I like picassa and have recommend it to many friend, I don't feel that comparing it to Aperture is fair. Aperture's treatment of raw files is in and of itself reason to move to it (or lightroom) if you are serious about photography.

[65shelbyc0bra]

tight

[rosie14671]

does anyone know how to download an album sent to you using Picasa? or IPhoto, for that matter, It was lots easier and fast with Microsoft.

[vh24]

you can use picasa 3 with crossover in mac, works great.

[Dunkleosteus3691]

Hi Arty,

You're right to ask about iPhoto, a lot of people start using it and just assume that's the way all such apps work. It's not.

What I meant by "private library" is that, once you put your digital photo files into iPhoto - the names are changed so you know longer know what happened to them - if you ever want to pull one out to work on with a - better - photo editor.

Check it yourself, just double-click to open the iPhoto Library folder, you'll see nested folders- (next entry)

[Dunkleosteus3691]

... you'll see nested folders (with "meaningless" names) which in turn have the "original images" inside them but with new names (not the ones you or your camera gave them).

iPhoto does leave your original photos and images "alone" so you can go to those to find images you want to edit or work on with other apps - but that means duplicate files!

I import into iPhoto - only - pics I want to use for slide shows using iMovie. Then I delete that "album."

[HarryL77]

Check the iPhoto preferences.

You can keep your original file/folder structure. No need to let iPhoto duplicate and mess up your files.

[fredbillie]

It does not mean duplicate foles if you just set iPhoto's preferences to NOT import the actual photos but simply refer to them.

[Dunkleosteus3691]

Neither Picasa nor iPhoto are "good" image editors. Period.

Same applies for "photo organizing" - both are "adequate." Picasa has the edge: they didn't use the screwy "private library" idea that Apple used. GraphicConverter, Photoshop Elements (all 6 versions) both have better organizing capability. 

Supposing the real advantage offered in Picasa is the web gallery and web sharing features. Most Mac / photogs already have more than one web gallery - with slide show feature.

[ArtyomD]

None of them suppose to have cause they haven't been built for tech savvy guy as I assume you are.

What's so bad about a private library in iPhoto? I never heard of it perhaps because I never had any problems with iPhoto starting from 6.0

[smellymichele]

But neither iPhoto nor Picasa were built to edit photos. They were built as organization programs. Picasa's organization system drives me crazy though because it messes up the actual files (it did on my PC, at least. I don't have the guts to mess with it on my Mac). iPhoto also does, but the beauty of a Mac is that you can access iPhoto itself through any program rather than going PC-style and having to sort through messes of files and folders.

I do see where you are coming from here, though.

[PRP1445]

geotagging with google earth doesn't work on a mac yet

[ZioZambe]

Picasa for Mac desperately needs the ability to manage sRGB color profile! Without this ability, all the photos will look desaturated and unreal.

PLEASE GOOGLE FIX THIS PROBLEM

[Patrick923B]

Hmmm....yes, this would seem to be important, but can't you just apply the sRGB profile on your mac, and then when it is uploaded, the profile is embedded in the photo?

[ZioZambe]

Even if you attach the sRGB profile to a picture, Picasa ignores it. That's the problem

[greekmonstervt91]

have they fixed the problem with the sRGb?

[brightonbloy]

So that means it copies your files therefore doubling the space on hard drive?

[morefiction]

no.

[chameleon1905]

yes if you edit it i suppose

no if you just browse the pictures on your harddrive

[Fabilousfab]

Picasa fuckin rocks!!!! It's not based on the library system. It automatically scans the folders already imported and when there is the html export, it beat iphoto in almost every aspect. So thanks google for finaly bringing it.

[android245]

Ah, iPhoto and Picasa both suck, make way for APERTURE 2.0!!

[drumboy245]

Ah, Aperture 2.0 costs $200! Make way for bankruptcy!

[chocxtc]

I love using Aperture and Photoshop CS4, but those are for the hard core photographer types. iPhoto and Picasa are just fine for the simple stuff

[huzizach]

where'd u get your copy of Aperture?

[billandpech]

"brainwashed Americans (especially ones that still think 9/11 was a terrorist attack!!)"

Whenever someone says Americana are "brainwashed", just think of this guy...

[Santiagosony]

there is a folder called "windows" there, when he opened "folder manager"

[mani1239]

I have iPhoto and it seems great.

I was just wondering, and I'm asking other mac users, if there is something iPhoto can't do that PIcasa can?

[shanec2008]

just that collage thing...i think

[Martusia1984]

loads of things you cannot do with iPhoto, first of all there is no photo editing whatsoever. Please mind that iPhoto is only a photo organizer. Picasa has got it all and is so so simple and quick. Love the collages, way faster then using Photoshop.

[mani1239]

There's no photo editing on iPhoto? I thought there was. I'm able to change the color, remove blemishes, and stuff like that.

[DreadedKilla]

Actually, there is. If you double click an image, you are able to edit the photo. You can crop, change the color balance and remove red eye among others.

[kompressorman]

God thats ugly and horrible good for PC not mac with iphoto which so beautiful simple easy to use even better with new upgrade.

[rdowavic]

Are you kidding yourself google? iLife AINT NEED NO REPLACEMENT! I managed to use 2 real negative words in that sentence.

[rffshvj]

well... I use iPhoto. Who needs Picasa if he/she has a mac?

[sillywish]

ikr.

[mySLICKname]

Yes! I've been telling all of my Mac-user friends about Picasa for years. Now they'll finally get to see what a REAL photo organizing/sharing/editing program is.

[rffshvj]

well, they know. it's called iPhoto '09.

[sizaples]

yes, that's its name, and "For about $80" is its surname:)

[rffshvj]

just use a mac and get it for free...

[leodaliz]

how do you get it for free.....i missed all that when i got mine

[androvskimelovski]

Horrible interface...

[0501701]

why is the interface horrible?

[androvskimelovski]

It's not Mac like at all.

[emgurl1234]

its about time!

[MoreVinnie]

i bet he leiks mudkips

[DarkShroom]

don't feed the trolls ;)

[Simidibbern]

THANK U SO MUCH GOOGLE!!!

[jaqme]

Thanks again Google!!!!

[cmazie]

I'm going to use picasa because iPhoto's red-eye remover is HORRIBLE!

[tarobomb]

Why does it look and behave like a PC application? Ugh.

[nz2k2]

Great news and long overdue, but need the PPC version soon!

[PengboGAO]

这真的是意见好事啊

[voodoochile6]

Rip off of iPhoto

[lin2log]

Any one STUPID enough to use software from GOOGLE doesn't deserve any better and quite obviously hasn't seen masterplanthemovie . com !! And THAT'S from YEARS ago! I can't even imagine how much WORSE that joint has become in the meantime!! Be sad, blind and moronic freetards and LOAD AWAY!

Totally aside from the fact that everything Picasa does is either stolen from iPhoto or Adobe's photoalbum software. Just plain SAD. Google is the next but WORSE Microsoft! Take pride in having helped!!

[pascalpas]

Aren't we the paranoid android;

But from my experience, iPhoto isn't all that jazz either; and unlike Picasa, is does create it's own library. The fact that Picasa doesn't is a huge plus for me; alsof, the entire program just works different; it's not just the features.

[lin2log]

Hooray... yet another freetard captured! The machinery is workin' perfectly!

Paranoia is based on *uncertainty*, moron. What's said in masterplan is FACT. But you just go on livin' your life with the blinds pulled. But be sure to get all HUFFY and OUTRAGED when you find out in a few years what Google's been up to with your data, okay? At least be a CONSISTENT sad little lemming.

But hey... IT'S FREE, right?! CAN'T be bad...

Oh man...

[dakineapple]

Sounds like you're the one that's paranoid. Lay off the docudramas for a while. You'll probably be a happier person. And if you really consider your photos of that vacation in Cabo to be some sort of uber security risk, then share them on a hard drive through the mail. Oh wait, the USPS is probably in on it all too.

[lin2log]

Wow... thanks for sharing. Try actually following the thread AND making at least SOME sense next time. It helps.

But nice to see you just as much the brainless turd-weed as the rest. But hey, at least now you can be the big show-off with your crap web-app with your buddies and pride yourself with it being FREE... as if ANYTHING is, only you're probably just to busy with violating farm animals to grasp the smallest bit of REALITY.

You're our hero. Sad fuck.

[lin2log]

Oh yeah, and sorry. I'm not a media and brainless religion driven AMERICAN MORON that isn't even capable of an independent thought with the average IQ of a doorknob. Try looking beyond you cable TV and red-neck existence and catch the fact that europeans (amongst others, ASIDE from Americans) actually have AN EDUCATION.

But hey, thanks for voting BUSH. You rule. Please die.

[dakineapple]

Wow. Lotta angst you got built up there. Tell us what the real source of your fury is.... mom didn't buy you an iPhone for Xmas or something? That girl you rented a 1986 romantic comedy for at Blockbuster to watch on the sofa with last Thursday realized you're 35, unemployed, have a full collection of Star Wars action figures and live in your mom's basement decided to bail on you? Or maybe you actually believe the crap that you type. Who knows. Get over yourself douchebag.

[staraffinity]

Hey, what's so bad about the age 35? I guess your statement means it's safe to say you're definitely under 35. :)

(So am I buy the way, but not that many years from it...)

[dakineapple]

Nothing wrong with 35. I wish I was 35 again but those days are long gone.

[mOObio]

You are just a regular moron then?

[lin2log]

And I never said that iPhoto is JAZZ either... pfff.

Oh yeah and creating it's own library is HORRIBLE, huh?? God... imagine all that ORGANIZATION! Yuck!!

[fredbillie]

Here we go again. iPhoto does not creat its own library if you tell via preferences not to do so. Simple.

[mOObio]

Google is out to destroy the world... mmk. Meanwhile you are watching videos on youtube, posting your own videos, and favoriting others. Considering youtube is owned by google don't you see a little hypocrisy in all of that?

[mytubejm]

I just downloaded the software and when I open it a message says "not available on this architecture" - does Picasa really come from Microsoft?

[theicerabbit]

Do you have an intel CPU?

FWICT it's Intel yes, PPC no.

[JohanKH]

I haven't used iPhoto much but Picasa sure is better. Looking at the versions of Picasa I've used though I'd prefer Adobe Lightroom over it, but then Lightroom cost 99 dollar or something such.

[timplaster]

I can't wait for iPhoto '09!!! TOMORROW!!

[thatguyleon]

That's great. Where's Chrome?

[JohanKH]

I think they focus on making it good enough on Windows first. But who knows.

[fredslow]

keep using safari, chrome ain't good...

btw thanks google, i'll try it out right now!!

[jsouyris]

Fantastico, al fin existe picasa para mac.

[UgoUmeh]

I'm definitely going to give it a try ..

[BluntView]

looks good...I'm goin' give it a try

[almaacustica]

Finally :) The UI needs a bit of work. But the features are great. Gives iPhoto a run for its money.

[RoundHouseFrenzy]

Awesome! =D

[qpdb]

Algo diferente de iPhoto

Gracias

[C3Z4rtv]

18th!

[neomana]

it is not available on google's website yet..?

[C3Z4rtv]

you have to download it....

[katakis1]

im gonna test it now...:D

[sgnx]

so sad it doesn't support ppc...

[klavr]

13th!

[derryquinn]

HOLY FUCKING DICKWEED!

I'm so happy!