IMovie 11 - Still pics in project

I'm working on a movie project using stills. To my surprise, when adding a still which I had reworked in iPhoto (touch up, resized, etc.) it does NOT add the reworked version, but falls back to the original version. Curiously, when I select the picture in iMovie, it shows the reworked version but when I add it to the project it is the old version.
What am I doing wrong?
It never happened in iMovie 9.
Can anyone help me. Thanks.

Thank you for your help. I did try with iPhoto and it did work.
But what a job! I am working on a project using a lot of old digitalized slides, which ALL need to be reworked.
There must be another solution and as it never happened in iM 9, I think it is a problem of iM 11 along with the issue of setting durations.
Hopefully this will be solved soon.
Message was edited by: thlmuc

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