Comments on: I really want Picasa on Mac.

By: Taringbiru MBP

Taringbiru MBP — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:55:46 +0000

Can’t install picasa on my MBP 15′, why is that?

By: yakov hadash

yakov hadash — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:05:53 +0000

Picasa for Mac is out.

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firsttube.com » Picasa for Mac Beta Arrives! — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:33:39 +0000

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By: Ullman

Ullman — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 06:35:39 +0000

I feel absolutely lost without Picasa. I’ve tried and tried to get photos into email and also to save on the Mac. It was so simple with my Windows OS before I purchased the Mac; Does anyone know when Picasa will be available?

By: stwf

stwf — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:57:15 +0000

Look again at Photonator, if you are interested in a Picassa/iPhoto alternative. As noted above it handles the organization really well, but now it has editing tools.
A great crop/straighten tool, and some OK image enhancement tools. But might be enough for most images.

(note, I’m involved with Photonator development)

By: Alex Foessel

Alex Foessel — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 02:12:05 +0000

Hey, Dutchdaun. Have you been able to manage videos using picasa+mac crossover? I was able to install picasa. It found my pictures but only shows the first frame of videos.

By: Dutchdaun

Dutchdaun — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 01:20:43 +0000

I found the best solution is to use Crossover and then install Picasa in it. Takes a little longer to start up on my Mac Mini then on XP and the fonts look horrible, but the picture’s itself look great and everything seems to be working ok.
Until Picasa someday show’s up for OSX this is a workable solution for me.

By: elle

elle — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:24:02 +0000

ok; i have Picasa on my dell computer, and i love it !!
but why the hell doesn’t it let mac users use it on their macs. windows isnt the best
server, people think it is the best but its not, apple is the best, and i want a
free photo editing software, but there isnt any ! they people who run picasa have
to let it out to mac users, there are so many comments below saying basically the
same thing, cant they get the picture! comment back people. we neeeeeed picasa on
our macs.

elle gregory (: im alot younger than you guys im 14 but im with you all 100%

By: Alexander

Alexander — Sat, 10 May 2008 16:03:42 +0000

If you use wine macports and X11, picasa is compatible with mac!!

By: SD

SD — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 11:42:05 +0000

i will be the first to sign that petition… i recently switched to a macbook and love it BUT i also love editing my photos.. picasa was great for that.. especially the “glow” feature (which i miss the most)… iphoto sucks.

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:24:46 +0000

I've had my MacBook pro for almost a year now and I still haven't found a good solution for easy photo management. I still have my Windows machine for games and Picasa. I sound like a broken record since so many people have stated this, but Picasa is the ONLY windows application I miss.

The only thing I can figure is that Picasa uses some deep, low level Windows API calls to do it's magic and that must be making it difficult to port. Or maybe Google just figures that Mac fanboys love their iPhoto so there is no need to waste the effort.

Maybe it would be nice to form a petition of some sort to get Google to understand how many mac users miss Picasa.

By: Still Waiting

Still Waiting — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 02:14:20 +0000

I echo all the other responses. I've tried 2 dozen different tools looking for something to run native on my macbook and i still come back to Picasa2 under vmware (which sucks, btw).

i cant find a simple, fast, efficient tool on the mac for organizing/touchup that

a) leaves my file folders alone, and doesnt
cryptically hide my stuff
b) doesnt commit changes unless i want to
c) preserves exif
d) covers simple editing like redeye, sharpen, cropping
e) runs fine with 5000+ photos in it

i found photonator the other day, which seems to do a fine job of duplicating the *organizing* part, but not the editing. i can shell out to my 'editor of choice', but i really dont HAVE one right now, without Picasa

new version of iphoto? please. i think it actually got worse.

By: rem

rem — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 02:28:41 +0000

but i so totally agree…picasa is the best pics program, why not have it for mac is a big mystery for me…Iphoto does the same as itunes…it’s all reorganised…and for my pics, i’ld like them organised the way I do and did for the last few years now…when oh when…hello apple are you there…?

By: Rockmntn

Rockmntn — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 07:25:57 +0000

Picasa NOW for MACS. I also have iphoto(blah), Lightroom and of course, PS CS2, but give me a break. What do you do when you need to tweak photos fast? Nada, for Mac anyway. At least if you want quality editing quick there is nothing and now with the dismal upgrade of iPhoto 08, it’s a mess just to get it downloaded. What was Mac thinking? Really makes me wish Linux could support all of the software one might need. What a break that would be.
I have a Sony that I will have to load Picasa on,but I use my Mac almost exclusively for photos. oh Well.

By: Peter SZUCS

Peter SZUCS — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 11:46:10 +0000

I am an amateur photographer and a relative newcomer to Mac. I have tried to learn to like iPhoto, but just can’t. Switching to mac was the best thing I have ever done, and Picasa is the only thing I miss. (Especially as I already have thousands of pictures in Picasa on my old PC.) Blogging and managing photos is just so much more complicated with anything else. Please make it available for Mac! Please!