Article:		Inside iPhoto: Image Management for Power Shooters
Subject:		Image Editing in iPhoto? It's OK
Date:		2002-02-05 20:33:56
From:		derrick
Response to: Image Editing in iPhoto?
Actually, iPhoto makes a copy of the original image and then applies your adjustments. You can always revert to the "master" by selecting FILE --> Revert to Original. So you only need to use third-party image editors for things that you can't do in iPhoto.

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• Image Editing in iPhoto? It's OK
  2002-02-06 17:30:46  ibobk [View]
  
  
  Here is another alternative which will keep good control in the hand of the user, works even after you quit and relaunched iPhoto, uses an existing iPhoto command and, above all, is very simple. We checked it out with a Guru at one of the Apple shops. It works like this:
  
  Use the 'Duplicate' command to create a duplicate image BEFORE going from 'Organize' to 'Edit'. The duplicate will be added next to the original image in the same roll, and with the same name + "copy". Now, if you edit the copy, the edited version will be saved by iPhoto within the same roll and you can also rename it as desired. To create another versions, go back any time later to 'Organize' and create another copy.
  
  This, I believe will solve satisfactorily my earlier stated problem about the security of originals and the traceability of multiple versions from a single original. However, I will also create and keep a copy of my originals in a back-up folder outside of iPhoto.
  
  Bob K
• Image Editing in iPhoto? It's OK
  2002-02-09 15:15:34  Adam Engst | [View]
  
  
  It's a good idea to work on duplicates of particularly important photos since iPhoto doesn't always let you revert all the way back to the original with Revert to Original. I've seen situations with crashes and with editing in external applications where Revert to Original only takes you back to an intermediate version. Consider yourself warned.
  
  cheers... -Adam