[Koralatov]

I'm probably overlooking something really obvious, but I can't seem to rotate the crop selection rectangle in iPhoto. I've tried right-clicking, looking in the menus to no avail. As I said, it's probably staring me right in the face, but I can't seem to work it out. How do I do it, or is it not possible?

Also, I stupidly bought iLife '08, not realising it will be included in Leopard. That's another £80 to Apple. I'm running it on my G4 iMac (as detailed in my sig), but it can be a bit slow. Would upping the RAM have a positive effect, or am I SOL and stuck with a perfectly useable but slightly, ahem, 'stately' in performance copy of iPhoto?

[Silky Voice of The Gorn]

You can't rotate a crop they way Photoshop does. You have to use the straighten tool:
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[JKT]

Originally Posted by Koralatov 

Also, I stupidly bought iLife '08, not realising it will be included in Leopard.

It won't be included in Leopard and never was going to be included as a part of Leopard. iLife only comes for "free" if you are buying a new Mac.

If, rather than rotate, you mean to change the crop perspective from portrait to landscape or vice versa when it is constrained, hold down option as you drag the cursor on the image.

[Koralatov]

Originally Posted by JKT 

It won't be included in Leopard and never was going to be included as a part of Leopard. iLife only comes for "free" if you are buying a new Mac.

If, rather than rotate, you mean to change the crop perspective from portrait to landscape or vice versa when it is constrained, hold down option as you drag the cursor on the image.

Whew. I don't feel quite so stupid anymore. Whilst many people don't seem that impressed with it, I do rather like iLife '08.

Thanks for the tip--that's exactly what I wanted to do, and now I can do it.

[imitchellg5]

Originally Posted by Koralatov 

I'm running it on my G4 iMac (as detailed in my sig), but it can be a bit slow. Would upping the RAM have a positive effect, or am I SOL and stuck with a perfectly useable but slightly, ahem, 'stately' in performance copy of iPhoto?

It's slow on my 1.8 GHz G5. RAM might help a bit, but iPhoto (and iLife '08) is quite power hungry. Having dual processors is best.

[kman42]

Even on my 24" iMac the crop animation is dog slow. Not sure what's up with that but it has happened each of the 5 times I have fired it up. I'll try restarting.

[andreas_g4]

Originally Posted by kman42 

Even on my 24" iMac the crop animation is dog slow. Not sure what's up with that but it has happened each of the 5 times I have fired it up. I'll try restarting.

on my CD 1.83 GHz MacBook (2 GB), it's totally flawless.

[kman42]

huh. I have 2GB of RAM. Everything else about the program is snappy, but when I hit the crop button it is slow and jumpy as it performs the zoom animation. Maybe picture resolution? RAW format?

[andreas_g4]

hm. just checked it with an 8 mp raw file… very smooth.