iPhoto problem with constraining photos.

[elocs]

I want to make an album of Christmas pictures over the years. Many of these photos were 3x5 from an old 35mm camera. I have scanned them and cropped them and then constrained them for 4x6 by moving the box in the picture to fit what I want to be in the photo. When I go back to the album and click the constrain to 4x6 I get a new shaded box again within the photo which I have already constrained.

Hasn't the picture already been constrained to print out at 4x6? Why does iPhoto reconstrain it again with a smaller box?

[elocs]

1. I found the subject of this thread interesting because I have the same problem

only to discover that I created the thread weeks ago and had no responses. Oh well, I had no responses in one of the Mac groups either.

[NoQuarter]

2. I had to figure this out, too.

It seems that iPhoto needs reassurance from you that this is what you want to do. I found that if you use an arrow key to "move on" to the next photo in the album, iPhoto will then establish your modified copy of the photo as the album photo (while keeping the untouched original so you can 'revert to original' whenever you want.)

I don't check in here regularly so never saw your original post. Otherwise, you would have had a solution then because, as I said above, I had been puzzled by this behavior, too – ironically, while putting a book together as well.