Thumbnail view of photos in iphoto

i cannot get iphoto to return to thumbnail views of all my photos. instead it changed to a full view in the viewing screen.

Ok - you only gave iPhoto '11 - I assumed up to date
Glad you found it anyway
You are welcome
LN

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Message was edited by: fotojosho

Welcome to the Apple Discussions. Here's how Photoshop should be used with iPhoto in editing photos:
Using Photoshop (or Photoshop Elements) as Your Editor of Choice in iPhoto.
1 - select Photoshop as your editor of choice in iPhoto's General Preference Section's under the "Edit photo:" menu.
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Google for MVC, to get you started on different ways of structuring your UI application.Good advice, better stated than in my feeble attempts in these cross-posts:
[http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5290511]
[http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5290029]
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Process:
Preview [1255]
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/Applications/Preview.app/Contents/MacOS/Preview
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Version:
5.0.3 (504.1)
Build Info:
Preview-5040100~2
Code Type:
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2012-11-12 22:56:22.392 -0600
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i Brian
Welcome to the Apple user discussion forums
1 - this is the iPhoto '08 forum - your question would be better placed in the iPhoto 5 forum - http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=850 - some things work differently and here people will assume that you have iPhoto '08 and the answers may not work on iPhoto 5
What should I do in order to get things back to normal and be able to view my photos in iphoto??
2 - You should NEVER modify the iPhoto library (or any other database structure for that matter) - you should ONLY use iPhoto to change things. At this time your two choices are to put things back exactly like they were or recreate your library which will lose your edits, albums, etc
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