#Picasa for mac help full#

Can I also edit full screen, when my picture takes up the ENTIRE screen, with nothing but black in the background? When I try to edit in Picasa, I get a PC looking interface, and the picture limited to about 60-70% of my screen height. I also don't see tint, sharpness or NR sliders on Picasa. How do I increase saturation in Picasa? iPhoto allows adjusting a slide for the histogram. Would Picasa recover blown highlights at all from RAW or jpg? iPhoto isn't the best at this, but it is possible. Here's a couple: how do you darken the exposure of a photo in Picasa? Maybe I'm missing it, but I only see sliders to INCREASE the exposure. Someone asked above what can iPhoto do that Picasa can't.

This is not 100% true on both platforms, but is true enough that you should keep that in the back of your mind when comparing the two platforms. So, the Mac mindset is that the app manages the files for you. The Mac assumes you use an application for activities (like photo and music) and that files are a consequence of doing those activities. Essentially, the Windows platform assumes you manage files and then you have applications to adjust those files. Adjusting mentally will help you understand the Mac better. That's because the Mac and PC have a fundamentally different approach that you'll need to consider. overall, my life has become so much easier after switching to Mac. Also, in today's world, I don't expect any software provider to go the the effort of providing free migration software - so I'm happy to put in the extra effort myself where it's justified. I am personally OK to go through and clean up a few folders and photos. From that I also think if your Picasa folder structure is multi-level deep, you may end up with a single-level iPhoto Event library.

#Picasa for mac help pro#

A pro and a con at the same tim: I have not lost my Originals, but I do have some Events called 'Original' here abnd there. I have now started creating Albums in iPhoto.Īlso, what I was not expecting, was the fact that even the Picasa Originals folders (or sub folders) were migrated, as iPhoto Events too. I must say though, I was not using Albums in Picasa so I cannot comment on that. IPhoto kept all my Picasa 'folders' - in fact the experience was better than I was expecting (Thanks Apple!) in that the Picasa 'folders' were migrated seamlessly to iPhoto 'Events'. I copied the Picasa library folder across to an external hard disk and then Imported the entire Folder to iPhoto using the standard menu option. Well, what a good opportunity to join the forum!.īeing a recent migrant from PC to Mac myself, I had a great experience in moving my PC Picasa library to iPhoto.