In February 2016, however, Google announced it was discontinuing support for Picasa Desktop and Web Albums. In July 2004, Google acquired Picasa and began offering it as freeware. Picasa was created by a company named Lifescape in 2002. If you edit a photo on one device, it's instantly available to all your other devices in full resolution.Although it is now discontinued, Picasa is still available to download and use offline. It's not too expensive and you'll get Photos for Mac's killer feature: cross-device sync of all your photos. If you have a big photo library, you'll want to pay for more iCloud storage. Now you're treated with Yosemite's iOS-like sharing menu. Sharing is easy too, though Flickr and Facebook sharing has been removed. There is a slight learning curve but you don't have to spend too long with it to find out everything. However, I found it intuitive to pick up and to find the adjustments and settings I was looking for. If you've been using iPhoto for a long time, Photos may look like a dramatic departure. However, you're no longer able to manually geo-tag photos, which is a bummer. Clicking on a location will bring up a map that stacks photos on each location you visited. You'll see locations in the sections for each year.
Places is now hidden until you zoom out all the way in the photos tab. The app's facial recognition software makes tagging people a breeze. You can tag faces by clicking on the info button for each picture. You still have access to exposure, highlights, contrast, and more.įaces and Places made it to Photos for Mac but they're hidden. If you want to tweak this automation, you can with the drop down menu. There's also sliders for adjusting lighting, which adjusts many settings hidden from the user. This feature makes bulk edits for photos a breeze. There's an auto-enhance tool as well as an auto-crop tool that analyzes your photos for horizons and straightens them. Photos can be as idiot-proof as you'd like or you can dig into more advanced settings to get the results you want. Photos for Mac distills iPhoto's features down to the ones that matter and improves on simple editing tools.
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