Export Settings - Drag & Drop to Desktop from iPhoto

How can I find out what export settings iPhoto is using when I drag and drop a picture from iPhoto to my desktop?

The iPhoto preview is a "good-enough-for-most-things" version of the photo. Medium compression and so on, but it is missing metadata and is always a jpeg.
With File -> Export you can write the metadata to the exported file (If you use a format that supports that), you can export your Original, Jpeg (in different qualities), Tiff and Png, you can scale the size and have options for the name of the exported file.
Put another way: drag and drop is handy, Exporting is the full monty.

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