Hot to determine existing Aspect Ratio in iPhoto

Does anyone know how to do this? I can get a pixel ratio, but apparently that's slightly different, plus my math *****, so even if it were the same I wouldn't want to do the sums! I thought maybe one could tell by simply trying to constrain the photo in the relevant ratio (say 5 x 7), and seeing if a constraining box comes up. If it didn't that would presumably tell you it was already the right size. But even if I know the photo is already 5 x 7 (because I cropped it once already), when I hit constrain iPhoto offers to make it smaller again. What am I missing?

If I understand your query, I don't think you're missing anything. iPhoto always creates a bounding box (don't know if that is the official name for it) when you select a dimension for constrain. It's a starting place. You can tell if it's already constrained to that ratio by expanding the box to the corners of the image. If the box fills the image, you're already at that ratio. It would be nice if iPhoto gave you a diemsion in inches as well as pixels. Having the bouding box constantly appear as you step through photos is irritating.

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