Solve a calendar orientation layout issue in iPhoto

Dec 15, '06 07:30:01AM

Contributed by: kbradnam

I tried making my first calendar today, and I discovered a tip which may be useful to others.

I noticed that if you choose a six-frame layout for any given month, the default arrangement is to have a large, wide photo frame horizontally spanning the bottom of the screen. If you try dragging a portrait shaped photo to this area, iPhoto automatically changes the layout to make the main split vertical, rather than horizontal. Very clever, but if you then add a landscape dimension photo to this frame, it doesn't change back to the default layout and it will heavily crop the resulting photo.

The trick is to change the layout to a different number of frames, and then change back to the six-frame layout. This might work for other photo frame arrangments where iPhoto magically changes the style of a frame (from portrait to landscape or vice versa), but doesn't change it back.

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