i want picasa software for my mac os x

Man I,m filling exzactly how the last comment felt and i really really need picasa for my mac, i aint down with no other software even thou better for my PC and now i dont want no other for my mac and also so i can be transfering saved files from PC 2 MAC/

I know!

iPhoto is beastly and it sucks. I like to have my photos organized the way I like them, and NOT have copies of them importing into iPhoto. When oh when oh when will the snazzy developers at Google develop Picasa for Mac??

PICASA FOR OSX IS A MUST

I am a professional photographer, I have used EVERY application that claims to be a "great" image organizing solution and they are all pale, weak tea when compared to picasa's speed of organization and user interface. Yes, Aperture will tweak better, yes lightroom looks nicer... They are so damn slow it is tooth-grindingly painful. Picasa will snap up 50 raw files and publish them to the web as if nothing happened... Pretty hard to top. GET PICASA ENGINEERED FOR OSX PLEASE!!! Stirling Elmendorf Photography 4-18-07

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Once I tried Picasa to quickly edit 400 wedding pictures, there was no going back. It was the most user friendly picture program I've ever used. Fine tuning I can do with other programmes but that first fast brush up was great on Picasa.

trouble is I was using it on my friend's borrowed Linux as my Mac had just died. I have a new Mac now and first thing I wanted to do was installl Picasa and guess what? It isn't available for Macs! If I'd known I would have bought a Linux... :(

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no, you are not on of a few. Here is me, one of MANY that want to see Picasa2 for OS X! Now ; the question is "when is that gonna happen?" Tired to wait... and i can't understand why Google just won't make it asap.

Picasa Mac OS

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!

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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.

well it's all said...

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...?

amen to that.

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.

You are one of MANY.

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.

RE: You are one of MANY.

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.

Wine!!!

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