Book themes picture book / modern lines

Question

I was an advid iphoto book user. However, I was annoyed by the inability to modify themes or adjust picture box to deal with aspect ratios and et al. Aperture gives me that flexibility. However, I am struggling. The picture book theme is quite different in aperture. You must only do one pic per page. Its more geared to a professional photographer type picture book. I really like the consumer version of the picture book with more control. I think the closest is Modern lines. I think? Anyone know what I am talking about? Also, the theme formal is neat, but I can't seem to be able to change picture box size -- I can only move it. On a different theme, I could grab the box edges. How do you make picture size different?
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Answer 1

Hello,
Disregard the above, as I was thinking of Photo Essay, try this instead.
Sorry.
Picture Book does require a bit of arm wrestling.
When you click on a page in the page thumbnail viewer, you should get a "down" arrow, in a lightgrey box. If you click on that you will be able to change the page to suit a limited number of layouts. Picture book only gives you full pages as you said,
But you can also get to this from the cute little icon next to the + and - in the bottom righthand corner, that looks like a page with horizontal and vertical lines The tool tip calls it "Set Master Page". You will also find the current page layout has a check mark alongside it so you can work out what is current, and then choose.
To change the size of a picture box on a specific page At the Top RHS of the Main page viewer, are two buttons
Edit Content Lets you drag and drop your selected images
and
Edit Layout Which should give you handles around a selected box and you can drag to any size. So resize the box to suit your requirements. Then Right click to get some options. Duplicate. (copy is cool, but you don't get a paste!). Drag the duplicate across the page and resize, or dupe again etc. Hard work, but it can be easy to create the exact page layout you want.
Edit Layout also works on text boxes and tags.
I use the picture book and modify it as needed for client work. Each is different, and so I can take the time to get it right. It would be nice Mr Apple if we could also modify the background colours, see the little color checker icon on the top near the edit boxes, but in this layout only uses black and white. (as befits a great picture book.)
I also like to do the same sort of thing with the Photo Essay theme as the boxes are moveable and resizable.
Good luck
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