Google Releases Picasa For Mac
Organize
Manage your photos in one place, and find photos you forgot you had
Edit
Eliminate scratches & blemishes, fix red-eye, crop and more
Create
Turn photos into movies, collages, slideshows and more
Share
Upload seamlessly to Picasa Web Albums to share with friends, family & the world
Additional support information for Mac users » Picasa Basics: Introduction to Picasa for Mac Print
Picasa helps you:
• Control large photo collections
• Edit without worry
• Keep your online photos up-to-date
• Share with a click
Whether you're a Windows/Linux transplant or a brand new Picasa user, read on to find Mac-specific release notes, getting-started resources, and Mac support information. You can download the Picasa for Mac beta at picasa.google.com. It's a Google Labs release and is English-only at this time.
Picasa for Mac has been designed to play nicely with iPhoto.
Picasa doesn't store any of your photos. It simply scans your hard drive and displays the photo files it finds. In this way, Picasa folders represent the actual directories containing photos on your computer's hard drive.
Picasa handles the iPhoto Library in the same way, with a small variation made for the way in which the iPhoto Library organizes your photos: If you've made edits in iPhoto, each album or event in your iPhoto Library contains an 'Originals' folder and a 'Modified' folder. Picasa scans the photos and videos in both the 'Originals' and 'Modified' folders, and displays a single collective folder with the most recent version of each file.
The photos in your iPhoto Library will be displayed in Picasa in the 'iPhoto Library' collection as read-only files. The read-only status is necessary to ensure that Picasa and iPhoto work well together. You can do a lot with read-only files in Picasa -- upload, create a collage, create a movie, email, print -- but you won't be able to make any material changes: this includes editing, moving, deleting, and using Sync to Web.
Of course there's a solution: When you attempt to use Picasa to edit an iPhoto Library picture, Picasa will ask your permission to copy the entire folder containing that photo to a location outside of the iPhoto Library -- they're placed in a different folder under 'Pictures' titled 'Imported from iPhoto.' You'll then have access to the full range of tools that Picasa offers. \\Missing Ingredients
For those accustomed to Picasa for Windows, there are a few features that didn't make the Mac beta:
• Geotag
• Shop/Order prints
• Integrated webcam capture
• Automatic screen capture
• Export as HTML page
• Screensaver
• Picasa Photo Viewer
Once you've organized and edited your photos to perfection, Picasa for Mac makes it easy to share them online. Here are the facts: Upload = Sharing: Use the Share button in Picasa for Mac to upload to Picasa Web Albums and send invitations to view in one fell swoop. Free storage: Take advantage of 1 GB free photo storage in Picasa Web Albums, with additional storage available for purchase. Broadcast or keep them quiet: Album privacy levels to suit all of your sharing needs. Organize by face: Picasa Web Albums finds the faces, you add name tags, your photos come alive.
System Requirements:
Mac OS X 10.4+
Intel CPU
256MB RAM
100MB available hard disk space
Freeware
For more information, visit:
http://picasa.google.com/mac/
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