Holy Picasa Batman!
Picasa, google's free photo organizer, appears to do everything iphoto does, and more. Not saying much so far.
There are three features it has that go above and beyond what I-Photo can do.
1. Superior browsing: It finds every picture file of specified types that exists on your computer. You can find things pretty easily this way, and navigate to the real folder it's in or stay in Picasa easily. iphoto has a messy process of importing and exporting and getting confused. The deal with Picasa is, it doesn't rotate or mess with your original pictures at all. In order to send the rotated or red eye fixed pictures you altered in Picasa in their final state, you have to export. This is great for people with deep inexplicable editing regrets.
2. Emailing Photos: iphoto does not batch upload photos, particularly not to Gmail. This was the most promising thing about iphoto to me. I upload and email photos constantly, and now I can just shift click together all the photos I want from thumbnails and upload the whole thing. Except I can't, because it "can't connect to Gmail." Augh. And I got my hopes up, too.
3. Blogger: photos will upload through Picasa into blogger. I do like putting pictures into my blog, and I don't like messing around with photobucket all the time. Of course, I already have about too many outlets for journaling or babbling. Should I really have a Photo-blog on top of all this nonsense? Because I don't have an answer to that question, I also don't know if that tool even works.
Coming up next: A livejournal about blogs! Am I even trying to be interesting?
There are three features it has that go above and beyond what I-Photo can do.
1. Superior browsing: It finds every picture file of specified types that exists on your computer. You can find things pretty easily this way, and navigate to the real folder it's in or stay in Picasa easily. iphoto has a messy process of importing and exporting and getting confused. The deal with Picasa is, it doesn't rotate or mess with your original pictures at all. In order to send the rotated or red eye fixed pictures you altered in Picasa in their final state, you have to export. This is great for people with deep inexplicable editing regrets.
2. Emailing Photos: iphoto does not batch upload photos, particularly not to Gmail. This was the most promising thing about iphoto to me. I upload and email photos constantly, and now I can just shift click together all the photos I want from thumbnails and upload the whole thing. Except I can't, because it "can't connect to Gmail." Augh. And I got my hopes up, too.
3. Blogger: photos will upload through Picasa into blogger. I do like putting pictures into my blog, and I don't like messing around with photobucket all the time. Of course, I already have about too many outlets for journaling or babbling. Should I really have a Photo-blog on top of all this nonsense? Because I don't have an answer to that question, I also don't know if that tool even works.
Coming up next: A livejournal about blogs! Am I even trying to be interesting?