To download the Google-developed photography software, use this link. “We're looking forward to making Picasa for the Mac even better, and to hearing what you think.” According to the same blog post, Picasa engineers will be at the Google booth's demo stations throughout Macworld. Morgan trusts users will “find plenty to like in this first beta.” “ We're excited to get this release out into the hands of the Mac community at this year's Macworld!” he says. After all, Picasa for Mac is only in its early beta stages. When the work is finished, users can upload easily to Picasa web albums.Īccording to the Google Mac Team, a few minor features like geotagging and webcam capture aren't functional yet. Editing options range from retouching to adding text and watermarks. Picasa scans the photos and videos in both of them, and displays a single collective folder with the most recent version of each file.īoasting some impressive control capabilities, the tool can find and display up to one million pictures (!) from any place on your Mac. In July 2004, Google acquired Picasa from.
The applictaion handles the iPhoto Library in the same way, with a small variation made for the way in which the latter organizes your photos.īasically, if you've made edits in iPhoto, each album or event in your iPhoto Library will contain an “Originals” folder and a “Modified” one. An iPhoto plugin and a standalone program for uploading photos were available for Mac OS X 10.4 and later. In this way, Picasa folders represent the actual directories containing images on your computer's hard drive. It simply scans your hard drive and displays the photo files it finds. The utility doesn't store any of your pictures.
“This year, we're getting in the spirit by making a little announcement of our own: we're happy to say that Picasa, Google's photo management software, will be joining the ranks of the free Mac OS X applications from Google!”
“Last year we had a blast at Macworld demonstrating all our Mac products, but as Mac users, we also know that the best part of Macworld is new product announcements,” Stuart Morgan, software engineer of the Google Mac team, explains. Best of all, the software doesn't do with storing images, but only represents the actual directories containing photographs on your computer's hard drive, offering endless editing and managing options with an intuitive user interface. Currently in beta for Apple computing platforms, Picasa is a program that helps you manage, edit, and share your photo collection. You will now see a Picasa tab.Google has just released Picasa for Mac. Close the windows and open iPhoto and go to Export. Move the folder with the long name to the "Plugins" folder that you left open in step 4.ħ. Go back and locate the installed plugin folder called "PicasaWebAlbums.iPhotoExporter" which was just installed into your /Library/Application Support/iPhoto/Plugins/ folder.Ħ. Point to your iphoto/Aperture Library (iphoto version 9. Authorize your Picasa account 2 Sonia Bohelay. Open "Contents" and you will find the "Plugins" folder. mac app Backup to Picasa for iPhoto takes your iPhoto / Aperture library and backs it up to Picasa Web, keeping your structure intact (iphoto event is a Picasa album) mac app. Picasa searches for all the images in your HD and shows them. whose function is to allow the user view and organize the pictures in his/her Mac. You will now se a single "Contents" folder inside the iPhoto package. Picasa is a program developed by Google, Inc. Choose "Show Package Contents" from the contextual popup menuĤ. Right click (or control-click) the icon to access the contextual menu for the iPhoto iconģ. Locate the iPhoto icon in your application folder.Ģ.
Instead I moved the plugin-folder into the iPhoto application package in the Application folder.
The plugin folder was installed into /Library/Application Support/iPhoto/Īpparently, that doesn't work for my configuration.
I had problems installing this plugin on Mac OS X 10.6.8 with iPhoto v.6.0.6.