Picassa vs iPhoto

You do what you want - but on the other hand

1. iPhoto photo management is horrible. Other photo management software such

as Picassa or Lightroom allow you to simply import a top level directory,

after which subdirectories with their meaningful names are displayed in

the application. No such directory hierarchy awareness exists in iPhoto.

You simply do not understand how iPhot works or how to use it - you are thinking of file management not photo management - iPhoto is excellent at photo management

You can easily duplicate your desired file hierarchy usng folders and albums - and you can do so much more due to its database management

The problem with this is that iPhoto will

eventually become bloated and painfully slow.

Again totally incorrect - I have nearlhy 60,000 photos in my library - others have reported up to 300,000

And iPhoto integrates into all other Apple software which LR and Picassa do not

iPhoto has lossless editing so no matter what edits you make you lose no quality

Again it is your choice - but until you actually learn how iPhoto works you should excercise yoru choice but not try to mislead others into following you

LN

To each their own, of course.

iPhoto photo management is horrible. Other photo management software such

as Picassa or Lightroom allow you to simply import a top level directory,

after which subdirectories with their meaningful names are displayed in

the application. No such directory hierarchy awareness exists in iPhoto

That's not "photo" management, that's file management. It's one way of doing things. It's a hybrid between using the file system to manage the files while using the app to manage the photos. It's done by the app writing hundreds (and hundreds) of invisible files to the folders. With iPhoto, the app replaces the Finder. As you never access the files via the Finder, where they are stored is of no consequence.

Photo management with Picassa is automatic. If I add or delete individual photos,

or subdirectories in "watched folders", they are automatically updated

in Picassa.

Againm you're confusing photos and files. Well here's another way to look at it. File management in iPhoto is automatic. Delete the file from iPhoto and it's automatically remvoed from the disk.

You keep confusing files and the data they contain. If you do that will have issues with iPhoto, sure.

3. Picassa and Lightroom are referenced libraries, and work extremely well

in that capacity. iPhoto does not work well in that capacity, and I've

read many recommendations in these forums to NOT use iPhoto as a reference

library for that reason. Instead they recommend that you import all of your

photos directly into iPhoto. The problem with this is that iPhoto will

eventually become bloated and painfully slow.

Happily agree that iPhoto is not good with referenced Libraries. Using them is pointless as it's more work for exactly zero benefit. iPhoto will not become "bloated and painfully slow". Why would it? iPhoto stores the files exactly like Picasa does (that's how you spell it btw), in the Finder. Each library can contain 1,000,000 images.

Picassa allows you to take still snapshots from videos. Brilliant! iPhoto

never had this ability. iMovie actually did have this feature, but Apple

in their infinite wisdom decided to remove the ability to take still

snapshots from movies. The "workarounds" recommended in numerous forums

is to take a screen shot, or use MPEG Streamclip. I still cannot believe

Apple removed this critical functionality.

And if that's a key feature for you, then good for you.

How is Picasa at Slideshows? Books? Calendars? Cards? Uploading to Flickr? Facebook? etc?

5. Picassa allows you to view your photos metadata.

Here's a thing: so does iPhoto.

6. Picassa allows you to select a start point and end point in a video and

export just that small clip. Nice!

Pretty sure I can do that with iPhoto too. If not, I know I can do it with iMovie or Quicktime player.

7. Picassa is free and runs on Mac, Windows, and Linux.

iPhoto comes free with every mac. And you can be pretty sure that your photos aren't being datamined...

Oh, how is Picasa on integrating with the OS? That whole thing of every photo in your library being available to every app on your machine?

This is helpful for me because I just upgraded to Mavericks and discovered I have to purchase iphoto. Now, i'm thinking picasa. The only drawback for me is requirement to sign up for google plus. I dont want google plus!

Why do you have to buy iPhoto? What version did you have?

If you own any version of iPhoto '11 the update to version 9.5.x is free - if you own an older version it probably will work although an upgrade to the current version of iPhtoo '11 (whihc is a purchase) is probably wise and might be necessary since some older versions seem to have issues even though they basically do work and are suppose to work

If you use iPhoto you do not have to sign up for Google plus - you probably will want to sign up for iCloud though

LN

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This screenshot shows which previous versions of iPhoto are compatible with Mavericks. It also indicates which versions qualify for a free upgrade to iPhoto 9.5.1 and which require a purchase:

Note 1: every day more users are reporting problems with iPhoto 8.1.2 so I've included it in the non compatible category.

Note 2: If your previous version of iPhoto was iPhoto 7 (08) or earlier you'll need to download and run the iPhoto Library Upgrader 1.1application on the library before opening it with iPhoto9.5.1.

OT

Fisaye wrote:

This is helpful for me because I just upgraded to Mavericks and discovered I have to purchase iphoto. Now, i'm thinking picasa. The only drawback for me is requirement to sign up for google plus. I dont want google plus!

It would be helpful information if it was quite a bit more accurate.

I found Picasa's face recognition mechanism works better than iPhoto. iPhoto displays message that I have 28000 unrecognized faces and offers me to confirm faces only by five, not mentioning that it suggests completely wrong names. Comparing to Picasa iPhoto learns faces slower ,hope Apple can improve that.

and one more thing which makes picasa better..

iphoto is of 500mbs

and picasa is of only 50-60 mb max

..there is no comparison picasa with iphoto..

picasa is definitely better...

The size difference is because Picasa has no printing or slideshow templates, that the difference between the two apps - all those high quality tiffs for templates. Mind you if that's your reason for saying it's better, well bless your simplicity.

Is that how you judge the worth of an app, by how small it is?

Photoshop must be entirely useless 😉

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