Way to organize edited photos

Wondering if there is an easy way to keep all original photos in their own section/folder/library and all photos edited or to be edited in their own section/folder/library?
For example, I have a folder for a group of photos that I want to print to 4x6 but I don't want all of the cropped-edited photos to be mixed in with my originals. How can I crop-edit and keep separate? Thanks.
Will

Will:
iPhoto's organization is - iPhoto Library Description. The user has to accept that organization when using iPhoto.
When you crop an image iPhoto creates a new folder titled "Originals" and moves the original file to it. To get the original back into iPhoto (and lose the edited version) you just use the Photos->Revert to Original menu option. It's the nature of the beast.

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