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EDITOR NOTES
Picasa is currently in beta.
DESCRIPTION
Picasa and Picasa Web Albums allows you to organize, edit, and upload your photos to the web from your computer in quick, simple steps. Arrange your photos into folders and albums and erase their blemishes using powerful editing tools in Picasa. Then use Picasa Web Albums to share those perfected photos online with family, friends, and the world.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 3.0.5:
- Increased video upload limit from Picasa for Mac to Picasa Web Albums to 1 GB in filesize, but unlimited in length of duration (in minutes/seconds).
- Updated RAW support for new cameras:
- Canon EOS 5D Mark II
- Canon EOS 50D
- Canon PowerShot G10
- FujiFilm IS Pro
- Nikon D90
- Nikon COOLPIX P6000
- Pentax K2000
- Panasonic DMC-FZ28
- Panasonic DMC-LX3
- Panasonic DMC-FX150
- Panasonic DMC-G1
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4 or newer, Intel CPU
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| Picasa User Reviews (36 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Jul 3 2009 |
ANG What is very STRANGE from Google is that there is no support of JPEG2000 !!! Hey guys, we (on mac) have no problem with this great old "new" format ! Iphoto, iworks, finder, photoshop can read... BUT not your great picasa ? And if it is a question of licence... http://www.openjpeg.org/
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 | May 31 2009 |
PLOINKR Too bad about the CPU hogging problem; nice features but it's just unusable to me because of that (even with 3GB of RAM and not that many photos).
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| May 5 2009 |
LEMERLOT While I really like the "Picasa for Mac" concept also this version 3.0.5 takes up to 90 percent of my CPU (MacBookPro Core2Duo)without letting me know why. That makes Picasa useless for me. Even researching on that issue on the web and rebuilding Picasa's database didn't help. Also Google didn't clear what's going on in the background and why Picasa takes such a huge amount of CPU (which it didn't in earlier pre 3.x versions). What a pity :-( That's why I had to rate it negative.
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| May 5 2009 |
JONSI 1.5 % on my MBP 2.33 MHz C2D. Check your system.
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| May 5 2009 |
LEMERLOT Thanks for your feedback Jonsi, seems you're a lucky. Here's some other feedback from users affected by the same issue: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Picasa/thread?fid=750197dedb74cf58000466e120717bcb&hl=en I checked really everything - maybe it's because I'm having thousands of images... - but as said: 90% CPU isn't acceptable.
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 | May 5 2009 |
LEMERLOT UPDATE: Since even today's update to Picasa 3.0.5 still didn't fix the unacceptable CPU problem I downgraded to Picasa for Mac version 3.0.0.310 and now everything is fine. No more CPU hogs, a highly recommendable approach for all affected users :-)
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| Jul 1 2009 |
JOENSSON Picasa 3.0.5 also used 90% or so on my system (I have about 20GB of pictures and some videos too). However it only hogs resources when the picasa window has focus. As soon as i background the Picasa window or minimize it, it does not take any resources of significance. So I keep using 3.0.5 :-)
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| May 5 2009 |
MACSOLU I just downloaded this -- performing a "Get Info" says it is a Universal app.
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| May 5 2009 |
JGJONES28 Get Info says that this release (3.0.5) is Universal, but launching the app on a PPC still reports that it requires an Intel Mac.
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| May 4 2009 |
DBAGDADI Hey Google, PLEASE make this app Universal. There are plenty of us still running on G4s and G5s! If Apple's iPhoto can run on these systems, why can't Picasa?
(Version 3.0.5) | |
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| Mar 4 2009 |
MADDOGUK Only the same force installing Apple tried on iTunes & Safari on Windows.
(Version 3.0.4) | |
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| May 5 2009 |
FORMICA Your comment makes absolutely no sense.
(Version 3.0.5) | |
| Mar 3 2009 |
JAMUS Agreed, the forced updater is completely wrong. Get rid of it and the software will be much better for people. Have it set as default fine, but give us the option to turn it off.
(Version 3.0.4) | |
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| Feb 3 2009 |
LEOOFBORG The new version of Picasa 3.x suffers from the same obnoxious 're-install Google Updater, which runs in the background, and if you throw away the pieces it re-installs again' nonsense that now afflicts Google Earth 5. Please see the MacUpdate review for GEarth 5 for more details. -2 stars for being evil. Please stop the madness, Google...
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| Feb 3 2009 |
LEOOFBORG X-post for those interested: The Google Update shenanigans thread [I think] is: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Picasa/thread?tid=68498bc22c8c3fad&hl=en&fid=68498bc22c8c3fad00046206be03ed97
(Version 3.0.3.363) | |
| Feb 3 2009 |
SJHA But if you follow the procedure described by Norbert Doerner in the Google Earth MacUpdate comments you can run Picasa without the evil GoogleSoftwareUpdater being re-installed.
(Version 3.0.3.363) | |
| Mar 3 2009 |
SLOB Yes, you can follow that procedure - if you know about it which most users won't - but why should anyone have to do that? The point is Google's become a big corporation with an increasing reach into areas of computer use, and this update mechanism is a demonstration of arrogance. It's like a rat sneaking into users houses & making nests. If that's tolerated what's next? 'Free' adverts on relaunch? F••k em. Where's my pussycat..?
(Version 3.0.4) | |
| Mar 3 2009 |
MARK EVERITT Install Lingon (find it free on macupdate) and run it. One of the things on the left will be com.google.keystone.agent. Click on this and then disable it. That should stop it the annoying updater running!
(Version 3.0.4) | |
| Feb 3 2009 |
MARUKO DRINKING TEAM Oh, I forgot: also incredibly lame is the choice it presents upon startup: a.) Search Documents, Pictures, Desktop, and iPhoto Library, or b.) Search my whole computer for pictures. How about you *don't* search through my many gigabytes of files? How about at least the *option* of having some control (force-quit is your only way out of this on first launch). I personally have many many many .jpg and .png files, but most of those are just work junk, schematics, screenshots and whatnot, and certainly not something I want auto-imported into my photo-management software.
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| Feb 3 2009 |
MARUKO DRINKING TEAM Like virtually all cross-platform software, it is basically crap. Unless the software does something so amazing that it's worth the crappy interface (Google Earth), or so important that interface and usability are less important than features/reliability (MoneyDance), then cross-platform stuff always sucks. I cannot fathom why any Mac user would use this software.
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