If Photogene can liberate us from using Picasa on the desktop, then what about uploading and managing images on Picasa Albums?

Fortunately there is an app called gPhoto (by Ashongsoft) which gives users the ability to upload and delete images.

You can also create entirely new albums, although I found that feature to be slightly buggy (note: you may have to restart the app as it never refreshes to inform you that it’s done).

While you can establish security settings on new albums (whether you want it hidden, private or public), you can not manage security settings for current albums (which is a serious drawback if you ask me).

gPhoto also allows users to view comments made upon their images, but unfortunately lacks the ability to create comments (something the Picasa Web App can do).

Conclusion: Semi-perfect

While it’s good to see gPhoto launch with a stable Picasa app (as their rival Picassolino entered iTunes full of bugs to the ire of users), hopefully they will add additional features like Picasa activity streams, landscape mode, the ability to search public random photos and to find nearby photo friends based on your location.

This app cost $2 in the app store, although hopefully they will continue to improve (lest I have to migrate towards Flickr–and yes there is an app for that!).

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