IPhoto '08 User Interface Changes Make Printing Really Hard For Me.

Question

The printing menus and options are so much different in iPhoto 2008, I have so many problems I can't begin list them all. But I'll try. I hope some Apple iPhoto developers read this, and decide to make iPhoto 2008 as good as the old iPhoto printing.
My printer is a Brother DCP-120C. I had been using it fine with iLife '06 on my G4 imac. my new mac came with ilife '08, and Im thinking of downgrading, it's so brutally awful.
Problem #1: Glossy Paper versus Standard. In every standard Print dialog on Mac, you can drop down a reveal triangle and change all kinds of stuff, even create and safe different PRESETS. You can't do that on iPhoto 08. the only Preset is Standard, even when I create a new preset in other Apps, that Preset does not appear in iPhoto. Thus the Presets option is useless.
Problem #2: There used to be an n-UP selection (2-up, 3-up) quickly right from the printer page. You could print 8 pictures, 2 per page, or even 2 copies of the same picture, quickly and easily. The nearest workaround I have found is to NOT use the Print buttons at the bottom of the iPhoto dialog at all, but only manually select item thumbnails (top of screen) and then use the File Print menu command, which brings up the standard Mac OS printer dialog. This is horrible. Two different ways to print, with two different printer dialogs, and two awful incompatible sets of options.
Problem #3: The standard Themes for printing includes a total of 5 themes. Was this the best they could do? Where's my "Standard Prints - 4x6" , "Standard Prints 5x7" and so on like in '06. If they're going to refactor the whole deal the least they could do is provide some coverage of the classic stuff.
It's not as broke as iMovie 08, but iPhoto 08 is a disappointment, on the printing front. Love the Events feature, hate the Printing changes.
Warren Postma
Toronto

Answer 1

You're right. That works. Thank you. Now I can do what I want. But I expect Apple to put a bit more thought into its products than this... It's all in all, a lot more clicks than in iPhoto 06, and I still find the three different print dialogs quite confusing. To sum up the stuff that still bothers me, which I hope Apple fixes in the next update is:
(1) When you go from your main photo library, select a few photos and click the Print button on the bottom right corner, you can't select Glossy, or any other printer paper types without going a few clicks deeper into the print system. There are a bunch of useless options in the first-printer-dialog-you-see that do nothing, and a bunch of missing-options that used to be in iPhoto 06.
(2) If I only want one photo printed several times, the trick of selecting one I want plus three I don't, giving a total of four, then dragging a photo over the other spots to be filled by the first photo I actually want is a huge waste of time compared to iPhoto 06.
(3) The change from a sheet (a window attached to the main iphoto window, but not taking up all the space) to the full iphoto editing pane (everything in the main iphoto window except the left-side where your photo library, and your projects/folders are) is confusing, maybe a core-animation fade where the sheet grows to show that this is the same dialog but a different mode. This advanced button is breaking all the rules. Every other Advanced button I've ever seen just resizes the same dialog box, and does not jump right out of the dialog box, like you clicked Cancel. In fact, I suggest they just DROP the first dialog box completely, since it's pretty close to useless, and jump right to the advanced page, and maybe have one quick-presets icon on the left that lets you do everything (via a popup icon stack, like in the new leopard Dock) from there.
(4) In the first (useless) printer dialog, only Standard appears in the Presets list. In the one you get to after clicking Advanced, then clicking File-Print, the Presets menu in this second print dialog allows you to select glossy paper. Since I always need to do this, anything in the first menu that I print would come out looking like crap, making the quick-print dialog box useless.
Again, thanks for your help, Anastassios T, I really appreciate it. But I do hope someone from Apple hears the cry of the hapless victims of iPhoto 08, and solves its problems for the next Apple-Update cycle.
Warren