How do I remove an iPhone filter in iPhoto?

Somehow the filter was on when we were taking pictures. I didn't realize and uploaded what I had and deleted my camera roll. I realized my mistake after I looked through them in iPhoto and was wondering how I could remove the filter in iPhoto.

Are you asking about the iPhone camera filters "Instant", "Chrome", etc? If you are using iOS 7 and iPhoto 9.5.1, you should be able to remove these filters in iPhoto.

If your iPhone is using iOS 7 these camera filters are lossless edits. And they transfer losslessly via Photo stream or USB download. When I transfer photos with these effects from my iPhone 5s to Aperture, I can see, that the camera filter is a reversible adjustment "iOS Edit", and by unchecking this filter in the Adjustment panel I can remove it.

For example, the Adjustment panel in Aperture:

iPhoto does not show these filters as adjustments, but if you are using iOS7 on your iPhone and iPhoto 9.5.1, check in iPhoto, if the "Revert to Original" button is active in the "Edit" pane, when you are viewing your iPhone photos. Revert to original should remove the filter.

Before and after "Revert to original" in iPhoto 9.5.1.

You can't. That how the data from the photo sensor created the image file and there's no going back. If the image is too bizarre for you to use you can convert them to B/W image in iPhoto's editing mode.

Thanks, Old Toad. 😊 It is hard to find something to contribute that has not already been covered by you, TD, or Larry!

I hope, the new Photos.app will bring a full lossless editing workflow across all devices.

Dang, you're good. I learn something new here every day. 😁

When it comes to iPhoto and iPhones and iPhoto for iPhones I defer to you as the resident guru. I use my iPhone more for listening to audio books than taking pictures.