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I only have iPhoto 08. The last version could be different.

First, I'd make a duplicate of the picture, just to be safe.

Select the picture you want to edit. Click 'edit', and then choose 'Crop', then adjust your options, and click 'Apply'.

Uki, Crop doesn't actually resize the picture. It only crops the area displayed.

Since you will want to do this more than once and since you will probably want to do it to several photos at once, let's try Automator.

The procedure is listed below, or follow this link and download the PDF file for the entire procedure with graphics. You can also do this piecemeal by opening the Application folder and double-clicking Preview.

1. In your Applications folder, double-click on the program Automator.

2. Select Photos & Images.

3. From the first drop-down box select My iPhoto Library.

4. From the second drop-down box select Ask for photos and albums when my workflow runs

5. Click the Choose Button

The Workflow window displays.

6. Select Photos from the left pane.

7. Click and drag Scale Images from the middle pane.

8. You will want to be working on copies so that orginals are preserved. Click the Add button on the dialog that appears.

9. Now you enter how you want to scale the images. You may choose either pixels or percentage. Set the size now,
10. From the menu bar, select File > Save.
Enter the name you want for this workflow, I'd suggest Scale Picture 70% in my example.

11. From the menu select Workflow > Run

12. Select the pictures to scale.

13. Click the Choose button.

The selected pictures will be scaled and placed on your desktop.

Macskeeball wrote:

Maybe Preview can do it?

Yes, that's another option.

sturner wrote:

Uki, Crop doesn't actually resize the picture. It only crops the area displayed.

Technically, that's correct. But in iPhoto 08 the resizing options are there after you click the crop button. You click the 'Crop' button, select the area to be cropped, if that's what you want, or, if you only want to resize it, select the whole picture and a size for it.

If you now a different way to resize images within iPhoto, please tell us. Personally, I set iPhoto to open images in Photoshop for editing.