iPhoto '11 - Export Questions

[ftaok]

OK,

Maybe this is how it's always been, but I've just noticed it now.

I'm trying to burn a few CDs of photos for some of my neighbors. Since some of these folks use Windows, I have to do it via Finder or Toast. iPhoto's Share/Burn feature is for Mac only.

Anyways, when I export the photos, there's two settings that seems to have changed from iPhoto '08. One of the settings is Quality and the other is Size.

I think with iPhoto '08, if I wanted to export the photo to be exactly the same as if I had downloaded it from the camera, I could choose the quality to be "full" or something like that.

Seems like iPhoto '11 has a High and Max quality. When I export a file of say 3MB, High results in a file around 2MB and Max results in 8MB.

What gives? Can iPhoto just export the file without processing the photo?

ft

 

[Mac Eagle]

I think that when you are exporting, you want to select Kind = Original (not JPEG) and that will export the file without any kind of processing and should match the file size.

 

[btbrossard]

If you choose the "Original" option under file type, you'll get the unaltered file (in my case, this is for a RAW file my daughter shot, the original .cr2 was exported).

 

[ftaok]

Yeah,

Thanks. I thought I was going insane. I think my problem is that at some point on iPhoto'08, I switched it to Original. Then when we got '11, it defaulted back to JPEG.

Thanks to both of you.