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I am trying to clean out, organize, straighten out my 3000+ photos in iPhoto '08.
Over the years I have made copies and edits of original photos in the Photo Library. Some of those copies I placed in separate albums, but many times I simply made a copy of the original, edited it, and left it there! I now realize that the Photo Library should house only the original, not the edited photos, but this knowledge came late to me. Also: Not only did I edit my original pictures, but I renamed them, and just looking at the new titles is not sufficient info to detect the original.
If I look at the ”i“ button to get into on a picture, would I be correct in assuming that the picture with the biggest KB is the original? Say, if I have five photos of my dog, all edited from one lone photo, and titled 'Cheyenne,' 'Cheyenne in pool,' etc, the one with the most KB or MB is the original? But what if in an edit, I make a picture darker, saturate it with color, and make it denser. Would that not make an edited picture actually ”denser?”
Lorna in Southern California

Lorna
The Original will be the largest file. It's a very solid and sensible rule of thumb and will be correct in about 99.999999% of cases.
But what if in an edit, I make a picture darker, saturate it with color, and make it denser. Would that not make an edited picture actually ”denser?”
No. When you edit a jpeg it is recompressed and it is inevitable that each generation is smaller than the last. In about 99.999999% of cases.
Regards
TD

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