Iphoto 08 and screen saver

I use my iPhoto library to run randomly as my screen saver. This has worked fine until I updated to iphoto 08 and now some of my photos are blurry on the screen saver. They are fine in iPhoto. Anyone know how to fix this.

It appears that iPhoto 8 now stores a low-ish resolution thumbnail of every (?) image -- I think your screensaver was grabbing those instead of the original-resolution images.
These appear to be scaled-down so that the largest dimension is 360 pixels, which will certainly look godawful as a full-screen screen saver. I'm guessing that these exist so that iPhoto 8's Events view has a known image resolution to quickly access when you drag over to get image previews.
The images are in the "Data" folder, inside the iPhoto library package that gets created when you convert your old iPhoto 7 library folder.
I managed to get what I think should be your old functionality by doing the following (not quite as elegant, but functional...):
• Make a folder somewhere. e.g. "iPhoto slideshow folder"
• Open the iPhoto library package by right-clicking on it and selecting Show Package Contents
• Make aliases of the "Modified" and "Originals" folders
• Put the aliases in your new "iPhoto slideshow folder"
• Then open up System Preferences and point the screen saver to this new folder.
It should resolve the aliases to find your normal images, without seeing the Data folder that has all the low-res images in it.
Ideally, the screen saver would have a setting to reject images below e.g. a certain resolution, but this should be a servicable workaround.
Hope this helps!
Pres

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