Restore single photo with time machine

I have iPhoto '09, and Snow Leopard. According to: http://pondini.org/TM/15.html , I should be able to restore a single photo from my backup drive using Time Machine. Suggested procedure according to the web site is as follows: start iPhoto, start Time Machine, locate desired photo, click "restore".
Unfortunately, at this point my macbook pro freezes (hangs) and becomes nonresponsive, and I have to institute a hard shut down.
Any ideas?

Its been awhile since I used iPhoto, but I have done it.
If I recall correctly this is how.
In iPhoto open event that you need to restore the photo to ( the event that originally contained it )
Then open TM it should show that same event and then go back in time until you find the missing shot
Highlight the one you need to restore and tell TM to restore it.
Good luck

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Its been awhile since I used iPhoto, but I have done it.
If I recall correctly this is how.
In iPhoto open event that you need to restore the photo to ( the event that originally contained it )
Then open TM it should show that same event and then go back in time until you find the missing shot
Highlight the one you need to restore and tell TM to restore it.
Good luck

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My iphoto library appears to function differently in Time Machine than it does when I access it from my MacHD, and I'm wondering if this is normal or if I screwed up a setting somewhere. From my Mac HD, when I click on my iPhoto library it launches iphoto and shows me all my pictures. Alternatively, when I right click the iphoto library icon I can scan the source files and drill down to a specific photo. This all works great.
Problem is when I navigate to my iphoto library on my backup drive using Time Machine, I can't seem to open it and view my photos. Right clicking does nothing. And single or double clicking the iphoto icon does nothing either. I know there are photos in there becuase it says the library is 15 gigs big.
How do I go about restoring a single lost photo? Is my only option to restore the entire library? If that is true, it would be a huge hassle and not a great solution because I still wouldn't be sure if the library I was restoring contained the single missing photo I was looking for.
My iphoto library is kept in a shared user folder on my IMac so that my wife can access it over our wireless network from her Imac. Not sure if this has anything to do with my problem, but figured I should mention it.
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My Time Machine iPhoto Library doesn't work the same as the one on my hard drive either. That said, I wouldn't expect it to. Time Machine uses hard links within the HFS+ file structure to keep track of previously backed up files. I would think this would make programming some of the features available in just plain vanilla HFS+ difficult. You can read about how hard links are implemented in Time Machine in this Ars Technica review.
http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/mac-os-x-10-5.ars/14
However, iPhoto is integrated with Time Machine so you can browse through things that way although I'm not positive it will work with a shared user folder. Launch iPhoto and without doing anything else click on the Time Machine icon in the dock. Then use the white ladder-like lines on the right hand side of the screen to navigate to the date you want to view. You can then click on the item(s) you want to restore and click the Restore button.

HT1338 How to restore iphoto photo with Time Machine?

I am trying to restore a single photo in iPhoto from Time Machine.
I open up iPhoto, then upen up Time Machine. When Time Machine launches, it opens up my desktop, not iPhoto.
I have seen videos of people doing this, but I cannot get Time Machine to open up iPhoto.
What am I doing wrong?

Apple used to support restoration of photos via the iPhoto interface with Time Machine, but has halted this support. I believe the reason was the feature was corrupting people's libraries, but I cannot be certain. Your options here are to restore either the entire library or manually go into the library in the Finder and use Time Machine to browse through file histories that way. Alternatively you can access the Time Machine backup directly in the Finder and manually copy the needed files out of it (do not restore in this way, but instead copy to the Desktop and then re-import the image as a new photo).

Restore single photo from time machine

Quote from apple help
"To restore, select the file/folder and click the "Restore" button. The file will automatically be copied to the desktop or appropriate folder. If the file you are restoring has another file in the same location with the same name, you will be prompted to choose which file to keep or keep both...."
So to restore one lost photo from a month ago, and presuming the entire Aperture library must be restored, do I have to "keep both" restored and current libraries and short term find another 150GB space in Pictures, export the missing photo, then delete the old library? Because if I keep only the restored library I lose all recent photos surely, but it seems a long process.
Or is there a clever workaround? (apart from Vault which I don't intend using at this stage. )
Still considering using Aperture, not yet purchased. Cant find this fully explained in search. Thanks.

Peter -- adding (I hope) the excellent responses already given:
One of the downsides of using Aperture is that "Photo" is no longer easily defined. When you ask, "So to restore one lost photo from a month ago ... ", you must define, in terms relevant to Aperture, what you mean by "Photo".
In Aperture you import image-format files. On import, Aperture makes a note of where your file is located (and by default stores your file where it wants). Thereafter your imported file is known by Aperture as an Original (prior to v. 3.3: a "Master"). Aperture also creates a text file to hold instructions on what metadata changes you make and what adjustments you make. This text file is called a Version. Aperture creates an image you can see, and displays this image to you as a thumbnail in the Browser, as a Preview in the Viewer (when Quick Preview is turned on) or as a fully-rendered image in the Viewer. Aperture refers to this (somewhat fitfully) as an "Image".
Here's what you need to know:
Original * the instructions in the Version = the Image you see.
When discussing Aperture it is helpful to differentiate between
- the image-format file you imported: the Original
- the text file of instructions that Aperture keeps in order to modify your Original to show you what you've done to it: the Version
- the picture showing you all you adjustments, with all your metadata applied: the Image
There is a one-to-one correspondence between Image and Version: one and only one Version is used to create each Image. Throughout Aperture, "Version" and "Image" are used synonymously to mean "the thing you see". Only "Version" is used to specify the text file of instructions.
(There are excellent reasons for this set-up -- primarily among them Aperture's non-destructive workflow and excellent performance doing the tasks we ask of it -- but they are beyond the scope of this thread.)
Some of the responses you've gotten here are about restoring your Original. Some are about restoring your Image. Those are, in Aperture, different tasks, dealing with different (or in one case, more) files.

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I changed my HD in my MacBook Pro to a bigger one and then wanted to Restore the System via Time Machine onto that new HD. Sadly I dont have the Snow Leopard DVD that was coming with the MacBook. Though I have another Snow Leopard DVD, that I purchased earlier for my older Mac. Now the Problem:
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