[Leigh]

Mr. Breen

Thank you for your on-going and greatly-appreciated efforts to bring the light of understanding to everyone's questions concerning all things Mac.

Perhaps I'm missing a functionality option in iPhoto, but how do you display a photo full screen?

My usual process is to crop photos to monitor resolution (2560x1440 for my 27" iMac). That done, how to see it full screen? iPhoto presents the image scaled down to something much less than full screen and offers a zoom slider to adjust the size of the photo but I find that to be quite tedious when reviewing multiple photos. You have to resize every photo every time. Perhaps iPhoto developers have a concept in mind that escapes me. The only potential option I find is to create a slide show. Not practical when you just want to look at a couple of pics.

Mountain Lion (10.8.2), 27" iMac, 27" Cinema Display, iPhoto 9.4.2

With warm regards,
Leigh

[smax013]

Leigh, on 18 January 2013 - 08:54 AM, said:

Mr. Breen

Thank you for your on-going and greatly-appreciated efforts to bring the light of understanding to everyone's questions concerning all things Mac.

Perhaps I'm missing a functionality option in iPhoto, but how do you display a photo full screen?

My usual process is to crop photos to monitor resolution (2560x1440 for my 27" iMac). That done, how to see it full screen? iPhoto presents the image scaled down to something much less than full screen and offers a zoom slider to adjust the size of the photo but I find that to be quite tedious when reviewing multiple photos. You have to resize every photo every time. Perhaps iPhoto developers have a concept in mind that escapes me. The only potential option I find is to create a slide show. Not practical when you just want to look at a couple of pics.

Mountain Lion (10.8.2), 27" iMac, 27" Cinema Display, iPhoto 9.4.2

With warm regards,
Leigh

I assume you are double clicking a photo from the list of photos so that you are looking only at one photo.

If so, then you can switch iPhoto into full screen mode using the little double arrows in the upper right corner of the iPhoto window. This should put that one photo nominally full screen (initially you will have a bar across that top that includes arrow buttons to switch photos and a bar across the bottom with the edit functions, but if you move the mouse to the middle of the photo and don't move it, it will go "fully" full screen).

I don't know if that will get you what you want.

[Leigh]

smax013, on 18 January 2013 - 01:59 PM, said:

Leigh, on 18 January 2013 - 08:54 AM, said:

Mr. Breen

Thank you for your on-going and greatly-appreciated efforts to bring the light of understanding to everyone's questions concerning all things Mac.

Perhaps I'm missing a functionality option in iPhoto, but how do you display a photo full screen?

My usual process is to crop photos to monitor resolution (2560x1440 for my 27" iMac). That done, how to see it full screen? iPhoto presents the image scaled down to something much less than full screen and offers a zoom slider to adjust the size of the photo but I find that to be quite tedious when reviewing multiple photos. You have to resize every photo every time. Perhaps iPhoto developers have a concept in mind that escapes me. The only potential option I find is to create a slide show. Not practical when you just want to look at a couple of pics.

Mountain Lion (10.8.2), 27" iMac, 27" Cinema Display, iPhoto 9.4.2

With warm regards,
Leigh

I assume you are double clicking a photo from the list of photos so that you are looking only at one photo.

If so, then you can switch iPhoto into full screen mode using the little double arrows in the upper right corner of the iPhoto window. This should put that one photo nominally full screen (initially you will have a bar across that top that includes arrow buttons to switch photos and a bar across the bottom with the edit functions, but if you move the mouse to the middle of the photo and don't move it, it will go "fully" full screen).

I don't know if that will get you what you want.

Your assumption is correct, smax013. I double-click the photo to see just that one photo. Switching to full-screen mode, I retain a view of that single photo. That photo, although it has been scaled to the size of my display, is shown reduced in size and with a large dark grey border all around. Yes, waiting for a couple of seconds removes the menu bar and footer bar but the wide grey border remains around the photo. The fix is to reactivate the menu bar by moving the mouse and then using the zoom tool located on the left side of the bottom bar presented by iPhoto. I'll be amazed if you get a different result. I appreciate your time and thoughts on this, but the result is not what I was hoping for.

This post has been edited by Leigh: 19 January 2013 - 08:06 AM

[smax013]

Leigh, on 19 January 2013 - 08:03 AM, said:

Your assumption is correct, smax013. I double-click the photo to see just that one photo. Switching to full-screen mode, I retain a view of that single photo. That photo, although it has been scaled to the size of my display, is shown reduced in size and with a large dark grey border all around. Yes, waiting for a couple of seconds removes the menu bar and footer bar but the wide grey border remains around the photo. The fix is to reactivate the menu bar by moving the mouse and then using the zoom tool located on the left side of the bottom bar presented by iPhoto. I'll be amazed if you get a different result. I appreciate your time and thoughts on this, but the result is not what I was hoping for.

When I do it, the photo is full screen. I still have a border down the sides ONLY, but that is because the photo I using for the text does not have the same aspect ratio as the computer screen. The photo goes right to the top and bottom when I let the "menu bar" go away.

So, if the photo is the same aspect ratio as the screen, it should be full screen with this method. Which is precisely what happens when I test it with a screen grab (thus the "photo's" aspect ratio is definitely the same as the scree).

[Leigh]

smax013, on 21 January 2013 - 05:48 PM, said:

Leigh, on 19 January 2013 - 08:03 AM, said:

Your assumption is correct, smax013. I double-click the photo to see just that one photo. Switching to full-screen mode, I retain a view of that single photo. That photo, although it has been scaled to the size of my display, is shown reduced in size and with a large dark grey border all around. Yes, waiting for a couple of seconds removes the menu bar and footer bar but the wide grey border remains around the photo. The fix is to reactivate the menu bar by moving the mouse and then using the zoom tool located on the left side of the bottom bar presented by iPhoto. I'll be amazed if you get a different result. I appreciate your time and thoughts on this, but the result is not what I was hoping for.

When I do it, the photo is full screen. I still have a border down the sides ONLY, but that is because the photo I using for the text does not have the same aspect ratio as the computer screen. The photo goes right to the top and bottom when I let the "menu bar" go away.

So, if the photo is the same aspect ratio as the screen, it should be full screen with this method. Which is precisely what happens when I test it with a screen grab (thus the "photo's" aspect ratio is definitely the same as the scree).

I have discovered the issue. When I crop using iPhoto, it does not crop to the specified size. Cropping to 2560x1440 results in an actual size of 2048x1152. Don't know why that would be but I have tens of photos that need to be re-cropped. I'll use Photoshop from now on.

Thank you for your kind persistence on this topic. Cheers.