Should i use picasa or iphoto

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Between writing about my Mac experiences, writing the Startup series and actually starting a new internet company I only seem to have time for short, focused tasks and getting everything into iPhoto will take some focused time. I'm a victim of "too many projects" syndrome! David: Corsa is setting you up for failure. The package is a database as you know. If you were to point aliases into the package contents, you could inadvertently change the database and hose iPhoto.

Best to use iPhoto for most stuff. If you need to look at the files, use the context-click on a photo to pull up the orig or new.

Also, iPhoto builds a database of thumbnails for speedy scanning as do most. It may ask you to rebuild it form time to time so be sure to say yes. If you run into ubrayj02's problem, you ought to try rebuilding the thumbs or more. There's info at support. Pecos Bill: Thanks man - I do appreciate the comments. At some point I hope to have the time to really focus on this. But it falls apart when you try to look at them on other devices. I have a drive full of pictures that I need to view from my MacBook, my wife's Windows machine, my Tivo, etc.

Stuff looks fine and dandy in iPhoto, but when viewed from other devices it's a mishmash of directories if the device can even read the "package" at all. I would much prefer it if iPhoto would just browse and retouch my images but let me handle the folder structure.

It wouldn't even have to be the default behavior if it were at least an option, but it's not. Computer programs should adapt to the user's preferences, not vice-versa.

So, even though your iPhoto files might be wrapped up in a Package, you can still get to all your Events, Albums and Smart Albums simply by going to Open File.

April 27, at AM. I also suggest that you take a look at GraphicConverter from Lemkesoft. Mac only! May 5, at AM. I make a new library for every assignment and then store on external harddrive by year as soon as I finish postproduction. Of course, I also use photoshop and it is easily accessible from within iPhoto.

It works great! Proofsheets are better in Photoshop, though, so I export finished edit to folder on desktop to make them. May 16, at PM. The originals issue at import is a huge deal to me. September 18, at AM. Nico D. Still there is something that simply can't be done in iPhoto: geo-tag. I've recently bought a Mac and am trying to figure out how to combine iPhoto amazing organization ability and Picasa geo tagging and other features. I have thousands of photos in Picasa, most of them with the geographic reference set by Google Earth.

When I imported those photos to iPhoto and tried to test the upload to Picassa Web Albums I found out that the geo tag was missing. I even set iPhoto not to move the photos into the library and that didn't work either.

I would be amazing if iPhoto could just use the tags written into the original file. I've tried modifying captions in both programs and they don't see the changes the other made. I'm not quite sure whether to use one or the other, but will definitly still be looking into it.

September 21, at PM. I just installed Picasa on my MacBook. It's the Windows version of Picasa, installed using Darwine.

It seems to work just fine on first blush, except that it doesn't seem to see inside the iPhoto "folder". I haven't tried aliasing a path into there for it because I'm afraid that if Picasa starts writing in there, it may mess up iPhoto.

I was wondering if anyone has tried this out and knows what actually happens? September 26, at AM. Andy said…. Dan, I just became a macbook owner, but love Picasa, did you get the results you were looking for? I want to use Picasa in windows through parallels but there are things in iPhoto that I want to use as well.

Can we import from Camera through Picasa and still use iphoto stuff? December 17, at PM. I'm a recent switcher; can someone please answer this for me? I tried importing my photos into iPhoto with the "copy items into library" option OFF, but the resulting library is over 15GB. Showing the contents, I can see that some definitely not all of the images were in fact imported, despite the setting.

What is going on? It seems dishonest, for lack of a better word. Can I delete them from the package, or will that damage the library? Yes, some of the bulk is thumbnails. From my perspective, "just trusting" iPhoto isn't an option. In order to work on the other side, I need to keep my images on a shared partition.

That is a given. But it would be fun to use iLife for personal stuff, and I can already see that the entire iLife suite stubbornly won't work with anything other than iPhoto. Thank you! Anon: This is one of the things that drives me crazy about iPhoto; it will sometimes place the photos into the library even if the option is set NOT to do that. Case in point; if you edit any file it gets pulled into your local iPhoto store. While that makes sense in some ways, the problem is simply opening a picture and ZOOMING in is considered editing by iPhoto and the file gets added into the store.

I personally cannot wait for the Mac version of Picasa. I've learned to get around the iPhoto quirks in large part because I just have a fairly large amount of disk space at my disposal. Me said…. Thanks for the informative post. I am trying to find an alternative to iphoto. My iphoto library is We also have lots of gray boxes instead of pictures which means that the photo file is corrupt or missing.

My guess is we have too many photos, I am not a professional we're just organizing family photos. I am now looking at transferring my photos to light room or aperture. The frustrating part is I have spent so much time organizing all the photos with key words, added descriptions, etc.

And now the challenge will be to transfer the pictures without loosing everything. From what I have read the best thing to do is picturesync. If you have any insight let me know. December 30, at AM. January 5, at PM. And the new iPhoto '09 is being demoed as I type this January 6, at PM. I'm glad I'm not the only one. Just switched from Windows to Apple last week Macbook Pro Love my Picasa, but expected to be blown away by iPhoto I have to say I was underwhelmed too.

I'll feel guilty for continuing to use Picassa. I'm going to give iPhoto a chance to grow on me. I'm hoping the overall integration to iDVD etc. January 9, at PM. You don't even have to use them. It's something new in the last iPhoto.

Before that we just used Albums; Albums are like Playlists in iTunes. You can set them up exactly how you want. Albums act just like Folders do. I'm not crazy about events because some times you can have several events in one camera sync, and sometimes you're just taking snapshots of people. Thats not an event. I pretty much treat events like albums. January 11, at PM. January 13, at PM. Nicole Colin's Mom said…. Hi, Has anyone had a problem in iPhoto where you click on an image and it doesn't appear in the edit window?

It sucks. Is Picasa the agreed-on front runner? I duly imported all of my photos into iPhoto and discovered what a mangled mess it makes in terms of organisation of files and how difficult it became to find things to edit with other programs.

Thankfully after a lot of effort I was able to get everything back into folders had to do it manually and now use Picasa. I spend hours just trying to find the file of a photo in iPhoto so I can share it in e-mail through gmail, but can never figure it out.

Sometimes I wish I never bought a mac. Just one of the many reasons iTunes sucks too! They make good hardware, but their user-end software sucks entire shopping carts full of scrotums. I just spent over 3 stinking hours trying to upload an edited image to a server. The server would only take pictures that were in black and white and cropped neatly to allow for processing.

I scanned the original into a jpeg file then edited in iphoto. Apparently somehow changing the file to black and white and cropping it changed how other programs view its dpi. Thanks Google.

I mostly like Apple stuff but here Google is much more transparent and functional. If drag and drop more than 2 photos, nothing happens. Sometimes IPhoto changes the date and reduces the size of original photo. Exporting a photo will alter the size of the photo also.

I just want my original back. In picasa I open finder: in a tab there is my EOS card and in another tab there is my archive. Well, I create folders like I want and called like I decide. Also face detection is much better: in iPhoto and Aperture you must indicate every single person who is.

That means that if you are importing photos you should pass over faces! You must just press confirm or not.