Change layout of a photo in Aperture slideshow

Hi all,
Yesterday I upgraded to Mountain Lion so I could buy Aperture (3.3.2) for the sole purpose of having more control over creating photo slideshows.
In iPhoto 11, I was creating nice slideshows using themes, but if I made any adjustments, such as deleting a photo, iPhoto would not adjust the frames. So portrait photos would go in landscape frames and vice-versa. I was hoping to be able to control the frames better and make adjustments in Aperture.
This seems like not too much to ask for a program like Aperture to me. Am I missing something? Is it really too much to ask to select which frame I want to put pictures into? Or at least trash a specific frame that doesn't fit the pictures well and receive another?
What do other people do to get around this problem?

In general the answer is no.
Aperture isn't a photo editor like The Gimp or PS. So if you're looking to do 'green screen' type of mods, were you isolate the foreground and change the background then no you can't.

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