Picasa and iPhoto

General Questions
#1

I use Mac OSX 10.6. whatevah. Downloaded Picasa yesterday. Watched it fly through all of the photos on my machine, building its own library.

It isn’t doing the one thing I was hoping it would do - allow me to quickly re-size very large photo files. I’ve got shots that are 1.1 megs- 4.5 megs and need to upload them to a photo sharing site like Snapfish or Photobucket and don’t have the bandwidth. I don’t have PhotoShop any more, so I need a free file re-sizer.

I dumped Picasa into the Trash so the Application is gone. However, this is my concern. I went to empty the trash securely and it said it had over 3,500 items to delete. Here’s the big question- in opening and installing Picasa, did it truly duplicate anew all of those photos, or just create thumbnails and links to the existing files?

And if it didn’t duplicate anew, when I empty the trash, do I risk losing the real photos still residing in iPhoto and other places on my hard drive?

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#2

Uninstalling Picasa won’t remove photos.

And it will resize.

#3

The thing to keep in mind is that Picasa generally operates in a “non-destructive” mode, meaning changes you make to your photos (including resizes) aren’t permanent UNLESS you “Export” them or manually force a save. (Meaning Picasa will remember your changes internally, but the actual photo files will be untouched.)