Photos out of Focus

When I was first using iPhoto '11 I realized that while editing my photos they looked out of focus. If I went to the next photo and came back to the same photo I was just editing. The edit was complete and the photo was back in focus.
Yesterday I did the update.
Since then any photo that I do any type of editing on goes out of focus before I even do anything.
The other issues that I just started to have is the cropping tool has a mind of it's own. Also when you "flag" a photo in an album, sometimes it will show up in the flagged items and sometimes it won't.
My "trash" bin has no number next to it. But if I click on the trash it has over 600 pictures that I haven't put in there?
Does anybody know how to fix the focus issue? I am a photographer. I can't worry about all of my photo's becoming out of focus if I open them on iphoto.
Thanks for any ones help.

I've noticed the same thing. When editing in full screen mode everything looks soft. I have to zoom in to confirm focus (even a little zoom shows the actual sharpness more accurately). They probably are using an alias image to speed up previews of global edits, but it is annoying.

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I started with a large jpg, 4.6 M. Fully enlarged in the iPhoto window the photo was in sharp focus. I cropped just the face, but the resulting photo was out of focus. I can't figure out why.

What is the pixel size of teh cropped photo? No matter how large the original photo is if you crop too small you will end up with pixelization (not a focus issue)
And it is possible that the are you are corpping to is not really in good focus and that becoms more pronounced as it becomes the only remainin gportion of the photo
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A while back my camera wasn't auto focusing well. I sent it in for repair. I haven't used it much lately. I too some flash phots of my granddaughter last week end and they are not in focus. What would be the most likely causes of them not being in focus. Any help would be appreciated.
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What camera and lens do you have? Is it the kit lens? I have sent 2 kit lens (18-55mm) for repair because the focus cable inside the lens disconnected while zooming. Thus the camera confirms focus but the photo come out blurry.
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Why are some of my photos tack sharp while others in the same series are out of focus?

My camera is a Canon Rebel XS (dSLR) and I primarily use the 50mm f/1.8 lens.
I shoot in Manual Mode with Autofocus ON.
I am having difficulty with my photos coming out incositant - some are out of focus, while others in the same series (taken a moment apart) are tack sharp.
I've attached two examples - one of the out-of-focus image, the other sharp images (both have been blown up).
It is not camera shake and my settings are identical for both photos. (ISO 200 | f/4.5 | 1/100sec in this instance.)
This has become such a problem that I find myself needing to take 10x more photos of the same subject/pose in order to hopefully get one sharp image from the series.
I have asked multiple people about this problem (though I have yet to take my camera and lens to a shop due to lack of funds) and no one has any idea of either what I'm talking about or what the problem could be.
I would appreciate your thoughts and help!
Thank you!
Fuzzy/Out of Focus:
Sharp:

This new pair of images does not look like camera motion -- this one looks like it missed focus.
If you use the included Canon Digital Photo Professional that came with your camera, you can right-click an image and tell it show you the focus point which were used (the camera wont know if you did a focus-and-recompose technique... so if you recompose after locking focus then the focus points indicated by DPP wouldn't be meaningful). But I bring this up because it would allow you to determine which focus point the camera claims it used.
I think you mentinoned that you used "One Shot" focus mode -- not AI Servo. One Shot should block the camera from taking the shot until it thinks it confirmed focus-lock on the selected AF point (or on at least one AF point it you allow the camera to pick from any of its available focus points.) In AI Servo the camera WILL take the shot when you fully press the button -- whether it successfully locked focus or not.
That brings us back to the subject of the focus test.
If you do not own a commercial chart, then you may want to download one from the Internet and print it. Here's a good site: http://regex.info/blog/photo-tech/focus-chart
Print the chart and follow the instructions. I deliberately run the camera out of focus to nearest focus distance and force the camera to re-focus and shoot... and I repeat this at least a half-dozen times. I then repeat... but this time deliberately run the camera out of focus to infinity before forcing the camera to focus and take the shot.
Track each shot as you do the focus test. You may see a pattern emerge (e.g. perhaps it nails focus when going in one direction to find focus... but misses in another, etc.) Such a pattern might indicate the lens is getting sloppy and needs service (it's usually not worth servicing the 50mm f/1.8 due to it's low cost.) The USM and STM lenses allow full-time manual focus override (even if the lens is auto-focusing). The basic auto-focus motor lenses (like the 50mm f/1.8) do not support this and forcing manual focus without disengaging the focus system can be harmful.
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found several discussions about this but no fix. My photos can be sharp as a tack but as soon as I click on "edit" they go out of focus. Sometimes they are out of focus before I ever click on edit but if I zoom slightly they are in perfect focus. I can view them in "preview" on my macbook and they look great. This is obviously frustrating as I can trying to edit them but can't see exactly what I am working with b/c they are showing up blurry. My macbook is a late 2008 and i have the latest version of everything else.
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So far it appears that the only work around is to zoom a tiny bit -- report the problem to Apple - iPhoto menu ==> provide iPhoto feedback
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It looks to me like the flash fired for the shot, but the camera also kept the shutter open for a fairly long time to reach optimum exposure. Can you check and see how long the exposure was? It appears that the bright, flashed parts of the photo are sharp, so I don't think it's an optical problem. The flash froze some of the image, but handheld camera shake created the blurring. Try a similar shot on a solid tripod. Or reset the exposure so that it's short enough to handhold and try again. I'll often do dusk or nighttime shots on aperture priority setting with a flash to light up someone in the foreground. The shutter stays open long enough to light up the dark, unflashed areas in the background, leading to a long exposure, so I have to use a tripod and have a model that can stay very still. Otherwise the photos end up looking like your shot. As far as saving the photo that you posted--it would take a huge amount of effort by someone that's very good with Photoshop.

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I just discovered when I straighten a photo in editing, the entire photograph becomes out-of-focus. I do not understand this, is this just with my version of iPhoto '09? I have made a duplicate of the photo, straightened it, then quit iPhoto, and opened it back up. The photo remains blurred.
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My photos look great after my layers and saving, but when I try to upload them online, email, or print they don't look the same.Kind of out of focus/blurry. I've tried for hours and can't seem to figure out why this is happening. Please, if you know, help is needed!!

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To use iPhone 4S and 5 take photo out focus usually, isn't the software problem?

Using iPhone 4S or 5 to take photo out focus usually!

Thank you, Courcoul. I will check out the Fast Camera and Blux Pro. They could come in handy for other photo-taking activities. However, I'm not sure it's going to solve my white-out-overexposure-blurry problem. Shouldn't we expect Apple's camera to work properly, without any special apps to make it behave for standard type stuff? Especially for the price we pay to own an Apple. It's a drag when you see a Samsung taking good pictures and zooming in without losing focus. I like your advice for other specialized apps, though. Much appreciated. And I will check into them.
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