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1. #PICASA FOR MAC ALTERNATIVE HOW TO#
2. #PICASA FOR MAC ALTERNATIVE PRO#
3. #PICASA FOR MAC ALTERNATIVE PLUS#

As well, of course, as being able to convert. But it does have a good browser, lots of editing chops in a rather clunky (but lovable!) interface, and tons of metadata manipulation tools. If you've been around Macs a while you might recognize it it's been around forever. And it's free.Īnother good one, although you might hate the interface, is Graphic Converter. But you can still make collections (virtual albums), add tons of different metadata like keywords for searching, and move stuff about. No storing much of anything, except maybe some caching. I'd suggest you look at browsers instead. The trouble for you with a PIE of course is that you always gotta export to express the changes you've made for use elsewhere, like printing from a negative, since the instructions are internal to the program. Same for Photos, although Photos can either reference like Lr (turn off the "copy into." option in its prefs, or store in a package, which is just a date-based hierarchy pretty much. It references all images and never changes the files themselves except for metadata appended thereon or in sidecars. You need to realize that Lr is a parametric image editor (PIE) and that it keeps all the changes in a database for the purpose of being able to quickly change images, have lots of iterations of them without saving/reproducing copies, and to publish and maintain a continuing relationship with the images. For those of us who worked with light tables and developing and then printing/publishing (now exporting), it's more intuitive. I think that whether you get used to Lr depends a bit more on photo experience than computer experience. More evidence that what is intuitive for one person is a complete fail for someone else (I hated Picasa.sorry). I had a chuckle at Lr being a bad user interface, but that you liked Picasa. Happy to spend some money, but don't want to break the bank.Īny suggestions would be gratefully received. I do have and use Afinity, which is fine for editing one or two photos, but not got for going through a few hundred photos. I don't really need lots of artistic features, just file management and basic editing (crop, straighten, light, sharpen etc.), and want to be able to import the RAW files and save as JPG, or import JPG and save/replace them.

#PICASA FOR MAC ALTERNATIVE PRO#

After Shot Pro 3: Similar to Lightroom, the process of having to export, not save.

#PICASA FOR MAC ALTERNATIVE PLUS#

Plus there's no 'save' button - it's all about exporting, and it's a real pain Plus others in my house who are less experienced in IT use it, and it just seems far to complex. I just don't have the time (nor the inclination) to do so.

#PICASA FOR MAC ALTERNATIVE HOW TO#

Lightroom: I understand a lot of people like this, but since I work in software myself, I strongly believe that if you have to sit through >3 hours of introductory videos to 'learn how to use it' then it's poorly designed.Plus it's a single point of failure, and I've spent many hours fixing a relative's broken store

This is an issue as for me, JPGs are usually my final output, which can be easily shared, emailed, put on other devices etc.

I've looked at some alternatives, but have so far drawn a blank. Google no longer support it, and I'm now trialing MacOS High Sierra, and it's sadly a little unreliable (particularly around saving files), so I'm looking for alternatives. I value it's simplicity, file management, the fact there's no proprietary databases created etc. I've been an avid user of Picasa (Mac edition) for many years.