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iPhoto for Windows

February 9, 2005 | 9:47 a.m. CST
Picasa2
Picasa 2

If you're like me you send a lot of time on computers and a lot of time on more than one computer. I personally own 3 computers at home and have 1 at my part time job. I recently bought a Macintosh PowerBook (when I say recently I mean like 6 months ago). Anyway, one of the things I really like about OSX is iPhoto. To me iPhoto just has that feel of quality software, I don't know if it's the interface that is so enticing or just the features and how well it works. At any rate when I think of something that I want to blog about I usually make a note about it on my to-do list so that I can write about it when I have more time. However, I just recently discovered a new piece of software that I just couldn't wait to blog about.

Picasa2 is Google's entry in to the PC desktop software arena, and what and entry it is! I don't know if Picasa2 was written by the same people that wrote iPoto but one thing is certain the similarities are staggering. The interface seems just as beautiful and the features just as rich and plentiful. I haven't had enough time to really start exploring the software yet to give it my full recommendation but all I can say is that it's FREE, so it would hurt to give it a try.

Related tags: iPhoto, Picasa

Comments

Jeff Croft
1.   At 1:12 p.m. CST on Feb. 9, 2005, Jeff Croft wrote:

Picassa was only recently purchased by Google, and I believe before that it was a company of its own. I don't think there are any ties between the iPhoto and Picassa, other than they are two apps that both do the same things pretty well. Picassa certainly looks nice. I've downloaded it, but never really given it a through enough workout to compare it with iPhoto (which I use to manage my photos).

Even if Picassa isn't as good as iPhotos, it certainly seems that it's the best thing going on Windows...

Roy Schestowitz
2.   At 4:11 a.m. CST on Feb. 10, 2005, Roy Schestowitz wrote:

Only days ago I read about how bad iPhoto is:

http://jacken.dyndns.org/blog/archives/2005/02/06/iphoto-5-is-horrible/

So is it true? Is it a resource hog? That would be one reason to stick to the GIMP which is inter-operable...

Brent O'Connor
3.   At 9:00 a.m. CST on Feb. 10, 2005, Brent O'Connor wrote:

Roy,

As far as I know GIMP is a graphics editor which has both vector and raster editing tools. iPhoto on the other hand is more of your photo album organizer and that goes also for Picasa. I don't really think you can compare GIMP to either iPoto or Picasa because they are two entirely different things.

And for vector graphic editing I prefer either Macromedia Fireworks or Adobe Illustrator. And for raster graphic editing I prefer Photoshop. I think GIMP is getting better but it still doesn't compare to what Macromedia and Adobe have to offer, especially if you are a design professional. But I think for the average Joe who wants to do a little personal photo and graphic editing GIMP is ok. But then again I'm not sure I would recommend GIMP for the newbie unless they where on a budget because I think GIMP is actually just as confusing as Photoshop or Illustrator at first and why not learn Photoshop or Illustrator first since its so prevalent, it certainly looks better on a resume. Of course this is all just my humble opinion and $0.02 so take it for what it's worth. :)

Jeff Croft
4.   At 4:51 p.m. CST on Feb. 10, 2005, Jeff Croft wrote:

Yes, as Brent says, iPhoto/Picassa and GIMP are two very different things. GIMP is better compared to Fireworks, probably, or maybe Photoshop.

GIMP is, in my opinion, a very nice open-source tool that has a lot of power under the hood but simply doesn't have the fit and finish of Adobe and Macromedia's apps.

As for your question about iPhoto -- it is a bit of a resource hog. No argument there. However, it still performs pretty well and it's hasn't bothered me much of iPhoto 4 and 5. If you're in a low-RAM situation and have a huge amount of photos it might be an issue, but I've got a very modest amount of RAM (512MB) on my Powerbook and just under 6000 photos in my iPhoto library and it runs smooth enough for me...

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