IPhoto 6: Severe decrease in quality == faster iPhoto?

I upgraded to iPhoto 6 today, and I like how it is much faster than 5. But I have noticed that my images (in thumbnail view, edit view, and fullscreen view) look TERRIBLE now in iPhoto. The quality seems to be drastically reduced, very LOW resolution!!
When I open one of the files in, say, Preview, it looks fine, just like it did before, but when I do a compare with iPhoto, it looks terrible.
Is there anyway for iPhoto to make my photos look good again? I did not have this problem with iPhoto 5.
I am using a Mac mini with 256 mb of ram, 1.25 gHz G4. I realise its not a beefy machine, but at least my pictures looked good before. Also, OS 10.4.6

TSG, I have an iMac G4, 1.25GHz, that I run iPhoto 6 on, and it runs great. I think the HD might be faster than the Mac Mini's, but the one notable difference is the RAM. 256MB is so little that even Apple ships 512MB standard.
I have 1GB of RAM, and iPhoto 6 is clean and smooth, and the images look great. I'm wondering if iPhoto 6 sacrifices quality for performance when the RAM is inadequate. I've seen iPhoto 6 running fine on a 500MHz G4 cube (with gobs of RAM though)
Since you have a Mac Mini, maybe you can take it to an Apple store, and ask someone if you can boot up a faster or higher-RAM machine with it - use Target mode - and see if your own library looks better. I got this idea from a friend who travels with his Mac Mini and uses it as a hard drive as often as he uses it as a computer.

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Hi,
I have read every stream I can find about iphoto and finding the original quality photos, but nothing has worked for me.
My problem is, I am importing photos that are 8mb. Once in iphoto'08 they are converted to 1mb.
Now, I have dragged photos from iphoto onto my desktop, they stay the same size. I have exported photos to my desk top as maximum size jpegs, as well as originals, and they stay 1mb.
I have also searched for the original file, its size is 1mb.
So, I am at a loss. I have also used image capture to bring in the 8mb photos, and they are converted to 1 mb.
PLEASE tell me what I am doing wrong, or how to correct this?
I am pulling my hair out here.
I would be forever in your debt.
Jordan

Jordan
Welcome to the Apple user to user assistance forums
iPhoto does not modify the original photos - in a managed library it copies them to the library - in a referenced library it points to them where ever they are
Are you by any chance confusing 8 megapixel files with 8 megabyte files? My 8 MP photos shot in fine resolution are about 2.5 to 2.8 MB on disk. a 8MB JPEG would relate to roughly a 24 MP photo in fine resolution - are you sure you are talking about 8 MegaByte photos?
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I have recently acquired a Zeiss Photoscope (in effect, a spotting scope with an integrated camera) which records raw images as either JPG or DNG files or both. (I'm a birdwatcher who likes to take photos of them, not a photographer first and foremost). When I view the images in iPhoto 9.2, the highest quality JPG files are far superior to the DNG files, even though the JPGs are about 2 MB while the DNGs are 14 MB. The DNGs are obviously pixellated even at low ISO settings (50 or 100), while the JPG images appear sharp and show pixellation only when blown up digitally in iPhoto.
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The raw conversion, whether from a straight raw file or from a raw DNG file, will be far superior if you view them after converting/rendering them in Adobe software, either Lightroom or Adobe Camera Raw. The latter, a free plug-in, can be hosted either by the (very expensive) full version of Photoshop, or by the relatively inexpensive ($99.99) Photoshop Elements, although when hosted by Photoshop Elements it only offers a subset of the controls, adjustments and functionality of the very same plug-in when hosted by the full version of Photoshop.
https://store1.adobe.com/cfusion/store/html/index.cfm?event=displayProduct&categoryOID=746 5793&store=OLS-US

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I saved my old iPhoto library on an external HDD and successfully opened them in past several times. But now with iPhoto 11 v. 9.2.3 all I can see is a black triangle (image attached) for majority of my pictures and folder from my old iPhoto library on the external drive. Several times I tried rebuilding iPhoto library but that did not help.
I am runnig MAC OS X 10.6.8 with most recent updates.
Thanks in advance for yor help,
I must admit its highly frustrating. Sometime I feel, am I still using the same Apple product or it is something else .
Image:

that indicates a disconnect to the original photos - have you deleted any photos using the finder or run any clean up software?
If no then download iPhoto Library Manager - http://www.fatcatsoftware.com/iplm/ - and use the rebuild command in the free trial to create a new library leaving the existing one as is
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I have two iMacs, side by side, one is G5 with iPhoto 5, and another is Intel with iPhoto 6. When I use iPhoto 5 to email a photo, medium quality 640x480, it looks beautiful. It looks like a perfect replica of a high-res photo, just smaller, but very clear. But when I do the same with iPhoto 6, again medium quality, the photo looks terrible, the image is very poor, it is jagged around people's faces with apparent artifacts of higher jpeg compression -- whereas none of these artifacts are present when emailing from iPhoto 5.
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I just received 3 calendars I ordered through iPhoto and am aghast at the print quality, in particular the color. Has anyone else encountered the same problem? Is this due to high volume during the holiday rush?
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Robert:
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For more information regarding iPhoto 5, please visit the following article:
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Would appreciate comments from the forum on how to best export a slideshow in iPhoto 9.5 without losing quality. I tried the highest quality option on the export menu but still noticed a signficant degradation in the quality of the slideshow in iPHoto vs the exported file.
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