Picasa for Mac, please. I'd actually pay, it's that good on Windoze.

iMike

It did not seem to work to well for me. But I like to take abstract pictures with unusual angles. So that might be part of the problem. I do wish flickr would add something like this.

bbobjoe

Is this only in the Beta? Or is it in 2.7 also?

bana

I still long for a Mac version, it's so much closer to my mindset than iPhoto or Aperture.

Headlam

i love how they made the collage maker more interactive! its really cool

superbryant

cool!

superbryant

Face tagging doesn't always work, and it tries to tag based on people in your contacts list, which is good, but those people don't always show up for some reason. Then again, it's been crashing since it launched, so maybe they're fixing it.

thebigcheese

That's smart! I've wished the Flickr would add this for a while now...it's the one feature that moved me from social networking skeptic to all day long addict at FB.

mahalie

"The download isn't showing up for me yet"

I see it: [picasa.google.com]

Eric

How the heck do I do this? I downloaded and installed, but I see no such feature.

bana

I'm dying for a Mac version. Hurry up Google!

CyberChaos

@superbryant: here is the collage I made....its pretty cool eh? :]

superbryant

@gokieks: Oh, and also still can't change the default sort mode of files to anything other than date. If Picasa just added those two features, it'd be damned near perfect. As it stands, it just drives me nuts.

gokieks

Still no way to move multiple folders into a collection at once, which was a deal breaker for me in Picasa 2. I'm very disappointed.

On the other hand, the new Photo Viewer seems quite nice and speedy - finally a good and free replacement for the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer.

gokieks

The tagging of pictures isn't in Picasa 3 yet, only in the web version. I am going through over 3500 pictures and tagging, it gets tedious after a while and there are some bugs, but it is pretty spot on.

holdemm

holy shit!

metalmarious

Does anyone know exactly how to do this? I have Picasa 3, and it can show me pictures with faces in them, but how do I tag the specific faces?

bana

@bana: I think face tagging is only available in the online Picasaweb albums.

Their tool is still scanning through my albums, so I haven't been able to test it yet, but I think it is a pretty amazing breakthrough to have face recognition software (with the ability to group like pictures) freely available.

feld-a-mundo

A few years ago, a website called Riya launched a similar face-recognition program. It worked pretty well, but it strained if you had too many photos in your albums. So far, this picasa versions seems pretty good, but I am now getting a bunch of server errors, so I'm guessing their recognition engine is getting hammered pretty hard right now.

schwnj

Flickr is my photo album of choice, so I'm hoping this will give Yahoo the poke it needs to start making some real enhancements. Lately the service has been slow and nothing has really changed in a long time. I would have loved this feature for the 20k+ photos we have online now that are all tagged by hand.

Joshua Hunter

Just finished taggin about 339 pictures.. took about 10 minutes.. but really enjoyed it actually.. well done and very impressed with the accuracy considering what you're asking it to do!

Now if they could just get their prices to Flickr level for unlimited.. I may be a migrater!

lencurrie

I like it. Slick, fast and easy.

stubear

I left Picasa for Photoshop long ago. I might come back, though. =)

TechTuner

How come Google Updater is always so far behind in updating the software that you download from them?

gpzbc

an increase in Picasa Web Album storage space would be nice too

peetah

Oh I like the new Photo Viewer that replaces Windows Picture and Fax Viewer!

gpzbc

I wasted about 30 minutes on the where-in-the-world game under the "explore" tab. It's addictive.

Christopher

Pretty cool face tagging but a little big-brotherish.

mados123

picasa.google.com is still showing V2.7 for me. Something to do with being outside of the US perhaps?

Neal Dench

I cant see People tagging on my picasa page :(

Neo

I got a Favourites tab instead of People.

And picasa download is still 2.7

(UK)

austinjreid

wow..not one mention of the movie slider... has no one else been waiting YEARS for this? is it working? To me.. this is a much bigger feature then face tagging..

Neflheim

You can download it at [picasa.google.com]

willdashwood

Seriously, I want this. iPhoto is lame.

mw2006

ok so there's now a link from client to webalbums. So edits on picasa client can be sync'd up to the webalbum.

Question: if you rebuild your pc, and only backup the local picasa.ini files in your pictures folder, will this resync when you reinstall picasa again on new build?

(on version 2.7 you'd lose the green 'uploaded' arrow, on a new build.)

austinjreid

Picasa V3 does seem to be available from outside the US at [picasa.google.com] However, more than once I've seen this come up as "page not found". Whether that's to do with load on the server, or perhaps even your language settings for your Google/Picasa login I don't know, but if you don't have any success to start with, keep trying.

Neal Dench

I can't find any face tagging either .. but it says i got Picasa 3 Beta. Where should it be?

Stuck

Thanx for the link Neal, i only got Picasa 2.7 when i tried to download the thing. Lets try it out now :)

Stuck

ctb123: yea, i noticed but i didn't want to spam you guys anymore ;)

I changed my language to en-US and it worked great.

Stuck

At Stuck: Face tagging is only available on your Web Album, not the desktop application.

I assume a major reason Picasa 3 does not show up in the downloader yet, other than time, is that fact it is a BETA.

I had to refresh the Picasa product page a couple of times before version 3 would show.

The new sync feature from Picasa desktop to your Web Album is awesome. It's great to make changes on my desktop and have the change show up in my Web Album. I even uploaded a picture accidentally, and found I could mark it as "Block Upload" in Picasa and it removed it from my desktop.

The new blemish repair feature in Picasa Desktop works much better than I expected. The auto red-eye repair also works very well for me so far. There is a video uploader to YouTube in addition to your Web Album. You can now move folders around on your hard-drive from within Picasa. The ability to print captions and even add text to photos are nice additions.

Overall, there are a lot of nice enhancements in Picasa 3.

The face tagging on Web Albums is kind of addictive. I keep telling myself just a few more, and now have done about 1300 in my albums. It is interesting how well it works in some instances, and poorly in the next.

ctb123

Hopefully they'll have face recognition in the desktop version of Picasa 3 when release as opposed to just the Web Albums.

ri59

Is it possible to use Picasa across multiple computers with this version?

Because Picasa 2 used a database to store metadata, changes made to picture/collection metadata would not be synced across computers with programs like Foldershare. This is the only thing that kept me from using Picasa.

danep

I would love a plug-in for Aperture that does this (anyone know of anything that does this?).

Or, well, Picasa for OS X would be a nice second - but I do prefer Aperture for my uses.

maztec

Picasa still uses the database to store changes.

I have not tried it, but I think you could sync the database with a something like Microsoft's Live Mesh or FolderShare.

ctb123

The face recognition works great! It's pretty good at grouping multiple pictures of the same person together.

The Picasa 3.0b link showed up last night and I had no problems downloading and installing it. Synchronization with web albums is awesome! One thing that's not happening is it's not pulling back the face tags into the desktop application.

jasontromm

Nothing doing on picasaweb outside the US either. It looks shinier than it did yesterday, but I can't see any new people tagging functionality (unless I'm being really thick).

dancingpenguin

I am addicted to this. 1800+ faces.

I do wish I could click on the 'face' thumbnail and see the original photo. Because a few faces do not look familiar.

Michael G

The concept of 'Facetagging is hot'!

I would like to tell you that MyHeritage has something similar but:
> The pics are fully integrated with your family tree
> The concept is more open, as users can import photos (e.g. from picasa) and export the tags back
> We are also available in local languages

dsharma

Nice little video on YouTube about new features in the Picasa 3 Beta...

+ Watch video

kyhoehns

Sweet, now computers can also classify us as ugly or good-looking.

UpperUpsilon

@bana: It is ONLY for the WEB albums AFAIK (useless for me as I don't have the bandwidth to upload all my pics all to do this)...Curious that they don't have it work offline.

Kspraydad