Iphoto is automatically resizing all my pics

Question

after i edit my photos on iphoto, i like to post them on my blog, or send them to a friend. however, i've noticed that wherever i upload, and however i send them, they are automatically resized to a pretty small size. but when i view them on iphoto, they are at normal resolution and cover my entire screen. i don't have a problem with everything already being resized for me before i post online, that actually saves tons of time, but i was wondering where/how these settings can be adjusted so i can have larger resized pictures.

Answer 1

There are a couple of places where you can set the image size when sharing your photographs. If you would like to email larger or even FULL-SIZE images, go through the normal process of emailing: 1) Select photos 2) Click Email button at bottom of window. When the dialog window comes up for email settings, there is a popup menu that allows you to pick three scaled sizes or actual size.
Another option for exporting your photos is of course the Export function, which you get from the File menu. This will give you a dialog that allows you to select the size of the export image.
When you export to iWeb's blog template, your image is scaled to the size of the image placeholder on the blog page. What's the secret of larger photos there? Well it is a bit tricky, but once you figure it out, it isn't so bad.
1) Go to the blog page on which your photo appears. The photo will appear at the top of the page and have a frame around it.
2) Select the frame around the image first. Click it "i" icon to bring up the inspector palette. Click on the little ruler icon on the inspector. There is a checkbox on the palette that says "Constrain proportions" You want to turn this off, so that you can resize one dimension if need be.
3) Now select the actual image. If you want to size a single dimension, repeat the process you used in step 2 on the image frame. Note that the placeholder will distort the image if you stretch the image along one dimension. This is not a bad thing... you can fix this pretty easily.
4) If you distorted the image in step 3 because of your desire of a different sized image frame, first press the Media button at the bottom of the window in iWeb.
5) Scroll through and find the original image that you had exported from iWeb and that first showed up on the blog page.
6) Drag that image into the placeholder and it will replace the stretched image, properly scaled and cropped.
There ya go!
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