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Even better, you can sync Albums and Folders with your site to automatically keep your online and offline collections in sync anytime you edit a photo, add images, or delete them.

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Once you sign up for a free account (you’ll need a Google account), you can upload photos, slideshows, and movies to your Picasa Web Albums site. While it doesn’t provide nifty prefab themes or Charlie Brown music to create slick productions (and it exhibited some bugginess when moving photos around the timeline), it does the job well, and the caption feature is especially useful.įor photo sharing, Picasa integrates with Google’s own Picasa Web Albums, which gives you 1GB of free Web space, unlike paying $99 a year to integrate iPhoto with MobileMe.

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Movie Maker lets you make basic movies (including time lapse) and slideshows. I love the Collage feature, which automatically arranged my photos into a designed or messy layout, which I could then fine-tune. There are several things that make Picasa stand out. No matter how hard I tried, I could not make this high contrast photo (original on the left, attempts to adjust on the right) look remotely decent using Picasa’s Tuning sliders. And in true Google spirit, there’s an I’m Feeling Lucky one-click photo fixer, which did a good job of making less-than-stellar snaps look presentable. You can also add text (nice!) and effects.

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The usual accoutrements are here, including tools to fix color, exposure, and contrast, plus tools to retouch (a bit buggy), remove red eye, crop, straighten, and sharpen images.

Picasa includes basic editing tools that make it easy to improve images, and it does this mostly well. I did experience some weirdness where Picasa couldn’t find any location I entered (but iPhoto still could), but this happened only a few times. Or drag a thumbnail directly onto the map. It works similarly to iPhoto-select a photo and type an address, city, or landmark to tag its location on Google maps. With Places, you get the power of Google maps working for you, letting you geotag photos with the location in which it was taken. With Places, you can simply type in the name of a landmark and Google Maps will usually find it. It does a decent job, but it’s not perfect (neither is iPhoto), but you can simply drag and drop the pics it misses. Once you name a person, Picasa creates a new album for that person and adds photos it thinks includes him or her (it can also sync people with your Google contacts). It does this a little too well, detecting strangers in a crowd, statues, and other random items, which I ignored. People works a bit differently than Faces, as it automatically starts detecting “people” from the photos it finds, placing them in an “Unnamed” album in the People section, which is sandwiched between the Albums and Folders sections in the left column.

In the Picasa world, People and Places stand in for iPhoto’s Faces and Places features. It’s a good way to organize your favorites. Albums work kind of like iTunes playlists, letting you group together photos any way you want without moving the actual photos.

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Any organizational changes you make affect your actual files, so if you move a photo from one folder to another in Picasa, it moves the corresponding file on your Mac accordingly, and vice-versa.įor better organization, you can create Albums, which appear in the eponymously named section above the Folders at the top of the left column. Unlike iPhoto, you can drag and drop thumbnails within any folder-or to a different folder-to rearrange at whim. Like iPhoto, you can double-click any thumbnail to get a bigger view. Picasa displays all folders that contain images in the Folders section in the left column, organized according to your existing folder array and year all images contained within a selection appear in the main pane on the right. Picasa not only actively searches for images on your Mac, you can set it to look through external drives and DVDs too. You can also import photos from a camera, media card, your iPhone, or other device upload the pics to Picasa Web Albums and share them with your Google contacts all at the same time. You can tell Picasa which folders to look through (or avoid) and watch, what types of files to find, and even have it search external drives, DVDs, and network servers. Your photos remain in their original locations for easy access. Unlike iPhoto, which imports and stores photos in a single iPhoto Library file, making them difficult to access (unless you set iPhoto to not import images), Picasa scans your Mac for images and movies and displays what it finds in its iPhoto-like-but-less-elegant interface, which possesses some scrolling (but designed that way) quirks.