Questions Re: (1) Creating Contact Sheets, and (2) Editing photos

Hello,
I have two questions about iPhoto '09:
(1) Regarding the creation of a contact sheet, how do I select more than one photo at a time?!? I open up my photos, click on a photo to choose it. If I try to click the next photo I want on the contact sheet, the first one is un-chosen. I click File > Print > Contact Sheet, and sure enough, only the most-recently chosen photo is the only one on the sheet.
(I have tried Edit > Select All > Print > Contact Sheet, but [as is implied in the "all" part of Select All], of course this results in a contact sheet full of photos I don't want.)
(2) Sometimes when I pick a photo to edit, click the Edit icon at the bottom of the window, get the enlarged pic and start editing, none of my changes show up i in the enlarged image. But when I click "Done," the changes are there in the image in the album. This is annoying, since while editing, I have to click "Done" to see the effect of a change every time I make one, and then start all over with the "Edit" icon, make more changes, click "Done" to see them, etc.
This does not happen with every photo. Weird.
Thanks, anyone, for ideas and help.

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Welcome to the Apple user to user assistance forums
(1) Regarding the creation of a contact sheet, how do I select more than one photo at a time?!?
The same as all Mac selections:
- you can click on the first of a set of contiguous photos and then depress the shift key and click on the last of the set and select all photos from the first to the last
- you can click and drag across a set of photo to select the set
- you can click on a photo and then depress the command (apple) key and click on additional non-contiguous photos to select them
- you can make an album of the photos you want and display the album and select all
and on and on and on - there are many, many ways to select multiple photos
(2) Sometimes when I pick a photo to edit, click the Edit icon at the bottom of the window, get the enlarged pic and start editing, none of my changes show up i in the enlarged image. But when I click "Done," the changes are there in the image in the album. This is annoying, since while editing, I have to click "Done" to see the effect of a change every time I make one, and then start all over with the "Edit" icon, make more changes, click "Done" to see them, etc.
quit iPhoto and with the finder Delete your iPhoto preference file - "your username" ==> library ==> preferences ==> com.apple.iPhoto.plist - launch iPhoto and it will create a new default preference file, set any personal preferences you want and if you have moved the iPhoto library repoint to it
LN

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