Photo sizes in books

I have some large photos (2990 x 1451)that get seriously cropped in iphoto - the slider for the zoom is on the left stopping me from seeing the whole pictures. What is the best way around this please??

iPhoto is designed around point and shoot cameras and the standard for them is a photo in a 4:3 ratio. any photo that is not 4:3 will be cropped to fit the 4:3 frame.
You can right click on the photo and select "fit to frame" to use white fill rather than cropping.
You can pre-crop to 4:3 so you totally control the crop
You can use the zoom and position feature to position the photo so the 4;3 portion is what you want
(2990 x 1451) is like 6.2:3 - a very strange sized photo

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Hello all, I am trying to create the 8x6 book. I have jpegs that we have created in Photoshop, that are 300 DPI and are 8x6 in size. They are also set to RGB. For some reason when we start with an 8x6 book and try to place the jpeg into the book it scales it up way too big. And when you double-click on the page to try and make it smaller with the scaler tool, it won't go any smaller.
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Sarno:
Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
I have jpegs that we have created in Photoshop, that are 300 DPI and are 8x6 in size. They are also set to RGB. For some reason when we start with an 8x6 book and try to place the jpeg into the book it scales it up way too big.
In Photoshop when you crop to 8 x 6 go into the File->File size menu and make sure it's set to 8 x 6. Sometimes it'll be larger but in the same ratio.
One possible solution is to Control-click on your photo in the book and select the Fit Photo to Frame Size option. See if that won't work. Or you can try a re -crop in iPhoto to the 4:3 ratio constrain. Doing so may then allow the photo to scale properly to the frame. Good luck.

Many times I drop a photo into a book page box and it resizes it. I want to scale it smaller but it only allows me to make it bigger. Why can't I slide to make it smaller?

many times I drop a photo into a book page box and it resizes it. I want to scale it smaller but it only allows me to make it bigger. Why can't I slide to make it smaller?

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I'm in the process of making a quite large iPhoto book for my SIL for her b'day. The photos are a compiltion from many of mine, and others sent to me by family members. They are all different sizes, resolution, color and B/W.
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Allie:
DO NO USE Lightroom as it messes up the metadata and makes the files not useable in iPhoto. You do not have to preprocess the files to set the dpi to 300 specifically. The only important feature of the file is the pixel dimensions. If the pixel dimensions are large enough as you state you can leave them as is. iPhoto will fit them into the frame you choose and the dpi will be determined that way. No matter what size the files are the book is converted into a pdf file for uploading and printing. My last book of nearly 100 pages came in at approx. 25MB.
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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Well, I've got this 100-page book all set to go, but the pdf file shows the last 25-30 pages as being blank. I've shuffled pages around and gotten different numbers of blank pages, so I'm beginning to think that there may be a limit to the number of photos that can be stuffed into a book. I've got 567 photos in the book layout right now. Is that too many? Has anyone had any experience with books having this many photos before?

Hi!
Thanks for the quick reply. The book is double-sided (100 pages), Picture Book theme. And after much playing around, my conclusion is the same as yours -- there seems to be no limit to the number of photos, only to the number of pages. I've actually increased the number of photos in my book to 587, and they all appear in the generated pdf file.
The initial problem -- blank pages -- seems to have been related to the resolution settings in the iPhoto prefs file. Reducing those numbers resulted in all pages being properly printed. Here's the text of my reply to a reply to another question I posted concerning those blank pages...
I'm using the Picture Book theme. And after much tinkering, I think I've found the problem -- and the solution.
Remembering posts from some time ago discussing ways to improve the quality of the printed photos -- including tweaking the iphoto prefs file -- I used the Property List Editor app to check my book settings (BookTargetDPI-BookTargetMediumIMageDPI-BookTargetSmallImageDPI). The three items were all set to 300. I reduced them to 250 each, then tried 'ordering' the book again. Lo, and behold, there were now 20 fewer blank pages. So I set about playing with different combinations of settings, trying to find the optimum resolutions that would print all 100 pages. I've ended up with something like 250-220-220.
Now I have no idea what these settings actually control, or what the optimum settings would be for this or any other book project, but clearly, they affect how many pages are accepted for printing. While the 300-300-300 settings worked for my last book, that book was only 20 pages. For this current book, those numbers are too high.
I looked at many of the other posts in this forum and wonder if those having trouble with blank pages haven't also played with these settings. I tried moving the iPhoto prefs file out of the Library/Preferences folder in order to force iPhoto to create a new file with default settings, and discovered that 150-150-300 seem to be Apple's preferred settings. But the very first book I ordered from Apple, which used those settings, was a bit disappointing in terms of resolution. Hence my boosting of these numbers for the second book.
The problem of blank pages could also have something to do with file size. At the higher resolutions, the generated pdf file tipped the scales at a beefy 193 MB, but at the lower resolutions, the pdf file is a relatively svelte 133 MB. There might be some limitation built into iPhoto to prevent people from trying to send1 GB pdf files to Apple's printers.
In my case at least, the problem is NOT related to the number of photos I'm using. After playing with the numbers, I actually went back and added a dozen more photos, pushing the total to 587 across 100 pages. And with the new resolutions, all photos on all pages print fine.
I wish I knew what all of this meant and how it could be used to predict iPhoto's book creation behavior, but at least I'll be able to print this book now.
Thanks for your quick reply! Hope my experiences help someone else with similar problems.

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