Very cool: Google's Picasa client is now available for OS X

Before I switched my business over to using Mac OS X, I "lived in Linux" and very much enjoyed the Linux port of Picasa. I use both Picasa and Flickr: both very good in different ways but I will favor Picasa now that there is a Mac client program. I enjoy travel, friends and family so reviewing pictures and videos is an almost daily activity. Picasa 3: highly recommended!

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  1. Do you have any opinions on iPhoto vs. Picasa? I tried using iPhoto once, probably v. 1. or v.2, and didn't like it at the time, so have a very manual setup of directories by year for albums, PhotoReviewer for sorting good from bad, GraphicConverter for editing, and Gallery for publication. This turns out to be ... a lot of work, so I take many more pictures than I put up on my website. I definitely need *something* to make workflow better, but I'm not sure what?

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  2. Greetings Michael, Happy New Year!

    I also have tried iPhoto from time to time but never really liked it. I find Picasa suits me better - especially because I keep my photo files neatly organized in a topic-based directory hierarchy and Picasa plays well with my setup.

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  3. Thanks, happy New Year to you too!

    It sounds like your iPhoto complaint was the same as mine. I've read that newer versions of iPhoto have a "leave pictures in original location" setting, which might help assuage that. Also last night, I found an iPhoto-to-Gallery plugin which might help with my picture posting problem. Trouble is, I need to upgrade my Gallery from the old old flat-file version to the newer db-based version of Gallery 2. Sounds like a fun weekend project.

    I downloaded Picasa last night, and had fun watching as it slurped up my pictures. Scrolling through them was nice, but I didn't try doing anything real with them. Time to compare!

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