Photo quality dropped

At the same time I stopped getting any thumbnails in Iphoto, when I open a picture in Photoshop, the image quality is now very poor. I get a 3X5 photo at 72 dpi, when it used to be 22X17 at 72 dpi. File size is now point 1 MB, when it used to 3.5 MB. Other graphic programs get the same result when I open the photos.
It is not the camera settings!
Within Iphoto they seem to be over 1 MB in size though. They are useless at 3X5 at 72 dpi however. I am MUCH better off using film and a scanner!
All and all, I find IPhoto detestable, and would avoid it completely if possible! It has so few options, is hard to work with, and gives EXTEMELY bad results.
Canon suggest using an updated version of its system 9 program to avoid Iphoto, but I have yet to try and load the systme 9 program (into system 10) and update it. Sounds fishy to me, but I have little option but to avoid Iphoto at this point, or to go to film.

GlennV:
Welcome to the Apple Discussions. Karen is so right about messing with photos and or folder inside the iPhoto Library folder via the Finder: Don't tamper with files in the iPhoto Library folder from the Finder. To do so is committing the cardinal sin of iPhoto.
Your original, full sized files are located in the Originals folder and its subfolders. The Data folder contains the thumbnail files that Karen mentioned. It sounds like you've not used iPhoto as intended and are accessing the thumbnail files with Photoshop. Use the keystroke method that Karen described to use PS from within iPhoto. If it doesn't work at first, select PS as the editor of choice in iPhoto's General preferences section under the "Edit photo:" menu. Then go back to the Main Window option in that same menu. That will identify PS as the external editor in the Contextual menu.
P.S. If a photo in PS is reported as 180 dpi and then 72 in iPhoto after importing it's just the fact that iPhoto uses 72 but keeps the total number of pixels the same. All that changes is the size in inches when the dpi number is changed. There's no degradation of quality taking place.
Do you Twango?
TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance.

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