Iphoto pics are fuzzy

HELP! I'm uploading my iphoto pics to other greeting card supplier. My pics look fab in iphoto but when uploaded they are not of quality recommended for printing. They appear fuzzy and won't be accepted for printing. I've considered using iphoto greeting cards but costs are outrageous.
I've tried resizing to 900x600 and 800x600 before uploading and that hasn't helped either.

Wow. What a lot of work!
First, let's address PS. Open iPhoto and, under the iPhoto menu, select Preferences. Then select the General tab. Finally, configure "Edit Photo" for Photoshop.
Import pics normally into iPhoto. Then, when you want to edit, double-click and PS will open. Edit your photo and do a normal "Save" in PS. That "Save" will be magically reflected into iPhoto. When you return to iPhoto, you'll see the edited photo there (it might take a second or two).
When you want to upload to anywhere OR when you want to make a CD for your favorite photofinisher or your friends, export the desired photos to a temporary folder on the desktop, exit iPhoto and work from that temp folder. Trash it when you're finished. Don't get burned by the "Burn" button inside iPhoto. That creates a miniature library intended for use by iPhoto on a different Mac. It only confuses things when your purpose is different.
If you ever wish to use the iPhoto editor for a "quick and dirty" edit, you have two choices:
1) Hold down the Control key while you click once on a photo and then make your decision from the several displayed choices.
2) Look for the icon resembling a TV with arrows going away from the corners. (This icon is on Version 6 but I don't remember if it's present with earlier versions.) It's at the bottom of the screen toward the left side. Click once on a photo (to select it) and then click the TV icon.

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I have recently had to purchase a new battery and hard drive. Because it wouldn't back up completely, I was able to recover most information, but it looked a bit different or I have found items in different places. One thing that is happening is in iphoto. All my pics are there, but there are NO thumbnails visible. I have tried rebuilding the thumbnails...nothing. I have tried creating a new library...no info even transferred. Any suggestions?

What version of iPhoto?
Can you view the pics at full size?

IPhoto pics are low resolution and small

I've got other open tickets on here, but let's try and tackle this one for now.
I recently had my IT guy here at work update my OS and as a result, destroy my iPhoto as I know it.
It imported all my pics, lost the albums, used the face recognition and doubled the size of my folders AND seems to have imported the pics at a lower resolution.
When I click on an individual picture, on the display screen it shows up small in the window. I can zoom on it, but it looses resolution. It's just as if they were brought in at a low resolution, and lost the high resolution.
Let me know if something similar has happened to you, I can post pics of my screen if this is too hard to follow...
Thanks,
JT

2 - in the finder drag the iPhoto library from the current loction in the pictures folder to the desktop
I drag it down and it starts to copy the library...doesn't delete it. I'm assuming I can make that copy, then drag the original folder to the trash, then essentially deleting it?
Dragging the library to a new location on the same volume does not copy it but moves it and is virtually instant - if you drag it to a different volume it will copy it - by default both the pictures folder and the desktop folder are on the same volume so you are doing something incorrectly
if it is a copy on an external drive then drag it intact as a single entity to the pictures folder on your boot drive - if it was backedup using backup software (like Time Machine or other backup software) then use that software to restore it
The key is not where it is but how it got there - if it was copied to an external drive then drag it as a single entity to the pictures folder on your internal (main) drive - the drive your system folder is on (the boot drive - the drive you boot to wheb you start your computer
IF
you used a back up program to put it there then you use that backup program to restore it to the pictures folder on your main drive
LN

IPhoto pics are black when I open them in iMovie HD

Hi there,
When we are in iMovie HD, we go to media, iPhoto, and pick a picture. But then, when we insert it into our movie, it turns black. Can anyone help right away. We would like to figure this out right,as we are in the middle of a project.
Thanks,
Kim

Hi momto11 - (I think you are actually using iMovie HD 6, for which there is a different iMovie forum.)
I wonder if you have done some editing of the pics subsequent to the original placing of them? iMovie 6 has a bug which causes this to happen if the iMovie trash has been emptied.
If that is your problem, then you must do one of these:
1. Do not empty the trash.
2. Drag the original version of the pic from the iMovie trash back onto the Clips Pane.
3. Re-import the original from iPhoto or where-ever.
Of course the cause of your particular problem may be quite different - only guessing!
Perhaps you could explain exactly the steps you are making.

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I've just switched from an iPod Touch to a new iPad and want to sync some of the photos that I have in iPhoto. These photos looked OK on the Touch, but now it looks as though iTunes is not sizing them to the proper resolution when transferring them to the iPad.
I thought that iPhoto and iTunes worked together to "fix" the images for downloading to the iPad, but it doesn't seem to be working for these photos. What do I need to do? Delete the albums? Re-import the photos into iPhoto?
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Dave

AFAIK..
What size/resolution are the photos?
I have (as of now) 6100 pics on my iPad. They are great and sharp except for some taken by cheap..er...less expensive camera's. Matter of fact, most of mine were taken on a Canon 5D and it took HOURS for iTunes to optimize them for the iPad because they were VERY LARGE files (lot's of RAW files). A 2 megapixel phone grab or a low-resolution camera pic will 'look' good on an iPod Touch. When you blow that pic up 4x for the iPad screen size you can get artifacts (jaggies and fuzz). Easy way to tell is to pull up the picture on your computer and check it. So far, of the 4 amateur photogs who got iPads with me, we have been blown away by the IPS screen. Sharp and color saturation is UNBELIEVABLE in a portable device. If you really feel somethings wrong, burn the 'full size' .jpeg file to a CD and head to the Apple store (might want to make an appointment..they're busy). They will pull it up on a desktop and see what's up.
Also, the .jpeg format does have some drawbacks...depending on your compression you can actually be generating artifacts into a perfectly good picture.

All iPhoto pics are gone! Please help!

Today I emptied my trash, which I have done in the past with no problems. But now I see that I have NO photos in iPhoto, which had about 1,200 2 hours ago.
Could someone please tell me simply what happened---I am not a techie---and if there is a way to restore the pictures? Where did they go? they weren't in my trash!!
Thanks SO much....Beth

Beth,
If you didn't empty a trash can full of hundreds of files, then it's possible you moved the Pictures folder and it was dropped inside another folder. (Drag and drop makes that easy, and it would only have taken a split second.) Did you try the Finder Search for jpegs? Or search for all folders with the name Pictures. Or search for a file named "Library.iPhoto" which will point you to your iPhoto Library.
To create a Pictures folder, navigate to Macintosh HD/ Users/ (your user name) or simply select the Home folder in the Finder sidebar. Do File > New Folder, then name the new folder "Pictures" exactly - with a capital P (but no quotation marks). The list of folders in your Home folder should look something like this: Desktop, Documents, Library, Movies, Music, Pictures (and perhaps a few others). To place the Pictures folder in the sidebar, simply drag it from the Home folder and place it where you want in the sidebar. This creates the alias.
If you get a message as you are trying to create the Pictures folder that one already exists in that location with the same name, do NOT allow it to be overwritten. You don't want to overwrite your files with an empty folder, because then it really will be gone. This is why I strongly recommend that you do those Finder Searches before creating a new folder.
I have more pictures in iPhoto now from this vacation!
Have you already imported them? Where is your iPhoto Library folder? iPhoto places a new library into the Pictures folder by default. You can locate any file in your iPhoto library by right-clicking (control-clicking) its thumbnail in the iPhoto Window. Choose "Show File" or "Reveal in Finder" (different versions phrase it differently) from the contextual menu. A Finder window should then open with the file already selected. Use that window to trace the path of the file and locate your iPhoto Library folder. Is there a Pictures folder?
Thank you for your kind words. My ability is somewhat limited by the fact that I use iPhoto 6 on Tiger, and have little recollection of the specifics of iPhoto 5 on Panther. There are some differences. If you need help with performing a Finder Search, you would get better advice in the Panther forum. (See, I'm still assuming that Pictures folder is still there somewhere. Things don't just disappear by themselves.) Of course, I'll do my best if you have any more questions for me.
Let me know how it goes.
Regards.

I made an iMovie from iPhoto pictures that both look GREAT. Watching the DVD i burned on a Playstation2 makes the pics look fuzzy. Why? how can i fix this?

I made an iMovie from iPhoto pictures that both look GREAT. Watching the DVD i burned on a Playstation2 makes the pics look fuzzy. Why? how can i fix this?
MPR

When you watch on your Mac, it is at or near HD 1920x1080 pixels (about 2 megapixels), depending on the resolution of your screen. Most photos today are 5 megapixels or greater, depending on your camera, but anything over 2 megapixels must be reduced when put in a video.
When you create a DVD, you must further reduce it to 640x480, standard definition. This is about 0.3 megapixels. iDVD will do this for you.
You can fix by creating an HD movie in iMovie. You can Share this using Share/Export Using QuickTime to an MP4 container using the h.264 codec. You can then put this movie on your PS3 using a USB thumb drive.
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1. Put the iPhoto.app in the trash (Drag it from your Applications Folder to the trash)
2a: On 10.5: Go to HD/Library/Receipts and remove any pkg file there with iPhoto in the name.
2b: On 10.6: Those receipts may be found as follows: In the Finder use the Go menu and select Go To Folder. In the resulting window type
/var/db/receipts/
2c: on 10.7 they're at
/private/var/db/receipts
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3. Re-install.
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If you don't have the original (say, from a backup), then you should probably first back up the library that you have before trying anything.
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