iPhoto 7 editing behavior
Posted on October 9, 2007 by Brian Webster
Filed Under iPhoto, Tips & Tricks, iPhoto Library Manager |
While fiddling around with the editing controls in iPhoto 7, I came across a small bit of new behavior that I thought may be interesting to some. If you use any of the sliders in the “Adjust” palette, iPhoto 7 will actually remember the positions of those sliders if you come back to that photo to edit it a second time.
Picture after editing and reopening
This is in contrast to iPhoto 6, where opening this photo back up again would result in the “Temperature” slider being reset to 0. This is pretty cool overall, even if it prevents you from doing X-TREME 200% SHARPNESS adjustments by sliding the slider to 100% twice.
However, if you choose to edit your photo with an external editor, such as Photoshop or Preview, iPhoto will not remember these slider settings.
Picture after editing in Preview
Also note that when copying photos with iPhoto Library Manager, transferring both the original and modified versions of the photo does the equivalent of editing in an external editor, so the slider settings won’t be transferred.
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This doesn’t happen everytime though. It’s quite annoying. As I am moving through my photos editing, sometimes it says, “saving changes” when I move to the next photo. When the happens, when I click back to that photo. The changes are there, but the sliders are back to zero (they old way). I can’t figure out why it does this sometimes. I love the new way of being able to see my adjustments so I can copy and paste them, but this bug is frustrating.