OS X Yosemite + iPhoto - edits not exported

Despite trying numerous suggestions on forums to repair, rebuild or recreate databases and libraries with iPhoto, my iPhoto 9.6 together with OS X Yosemite 10.10.1 will not export or share edited versions of any images I have in iPhoto libraries or albums. The edited versions only appear in iPhoto. All exported/shared versions use the original image. This was not a problem I had when I was using OS X Mavericks. Advice on how to overcome this problem (assuming it's fixable at all) would be welcome.

These things I've tried:
1. Starting iPhoto holding down cmd and option keys, then selecting from the menu Repair permissions. Tried exporting existing edited photos.
2. Starting iPhoto holding down cmd and option keys, then selecting from the menu Rebuild Thumbnails.Tried exporting existing edited photos.
3. Starting iPhoto holding down cmd and option keys, then selecting from the menu Repair Database.Tried exporting existing edited photos.
4. Starting iPhoto holding down cmd and option keys, then selecting from the menu Rebuild Database.Tried exporting existing edited photos.
5. Starting iPhoto holding down option key, then from the dialog box, selecting Create New... to create a new library. Adding photo to the new library. Tried exporting the newly imported photo after editing.
See reply to LarryHN for export procedures tried.

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