After using picasa for af few years & now having a mac i miss picasa severely, having tried iphoto, aperture, lightroom, lightzone, shoebox, qimage and a few others i totally gave up
None of them have the simple listing all photos and allowing me to do changes that can be saved - the simplicity of picasa is the key, i allready have all my photos in folders and need to see them all, sort them and edit, saving and overwriting my originals (they are not holy)
I truly wonder why it has been made so complicated with all the import and keeping originals untouched - picasa saves them in a nice folder called originals and lets me work on so i do not get tied to the program
Because this is the thing; using iphoto, aperture or lightroom all your changes and metadata will stick there, and the only way to get some of it out is to export to a new folder, but how about your folder structure and does it resave those which have not been changed? You definately loose your ratings and what if you want to keep doing a few changes here and there or move the file to another folder?
Nothing compares to picasa, on any system i have seen, and yes, it could be nice with curves and histogram adjustments, but those are minimal benefits to the lack of managing the photo library, and even though iphoto can replace the name with the titles in a desperate way to keep them, the keywords doesn't even work if they are written with danish letters!
Oh and don't even try to move or rotate a file in another program if it has been imported to iphoto (not even if you leave it where it was) - then if youre lucky you only have to rebuild the entire iphoto library, if youre unlucky, well, too bad...
My iphoto library is the the trash bin...
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