iPhoto won't save photos after using crop feature...

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iPhoto won't save photos after using crop feature...

Okay, I don't understand if I am doing something wrong or what, but I am trying to crop and iPhoto doesn't save the pics.

This is what I am doing...I open a picture in iPhoto, click the 'crop' button, then drag the borders where I want it to crop, then I click 'done.' The 'saving changes' box with the blue & white progress bar never pops upadn ,it just shoots me back to the thumbnail screen. When I look at the file, nothing has been cropped, and I even reopen the file, and again, nothing cropped.

If I open a picture and use the 'effects' button and make changes, it saves with no problem. It just doesn't want to save any crops.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

iMac, Mac OS X (10.4.8), 24 inch iMac6,1 with 1GB memory

Posted on Jan 20, 2007 9:48 AM

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Answer 1

Old Toad

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Jan 20, 2007 11:11 AM in response to sportscrazed33

Sportscrazed33:

Welcome to the Apple Discussions. You have to hit the crop button after selecting the area to crop. If you're cropping to a predetermined ratio that's in the Constrain menu it will automatically select an area to crop that you can then adjust. You don't need to hit the Crop button before selecting the area. Then hit the Done button. It's not intuitive but that's the way it is.

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Answer 2

Jan 21, 2007 3:54 PM in response to sportscrazed33

Thank you very much! I dont know what I didnt try that!

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