Cropping inside edge in Book

I've been doing books for a long time, but for some reason on this last one, the photo layouts seem to be cropping a lot more on the inside edge of the photo (by the spine). This is especially a problem for portrait shots when there are only two on a page. I have tried everything from ensuring a 4:3 aspect ratio crop prior to placing the photo, custom cropping. Double clicking and then trying to move the photo with the hand (this only seems to work vertically on portrait photos). I've also tried fit to page, which reduces the photo to create space on the other side, leaving the crop.
Is there any way of shifting/moving the photo around in the frame so I can decide where the crop is occuring (like the move feature, but one that works)? Like that I can just make the effective crop on the other less important side?
Thanks

What theme are you using? In those themes that run the photo right to the left of the page, I'm not sure if changing the bleed on the page would help. The bleed is the amount of the page is sized greater than the final size so when cut the picture will extend all the way to the edge. A minus bleed may make the page size less than the paper size and move the photos away from the edges. That might help the side at the binding but would move everything else in also. This is just conjecture. That preference can be changed using Pref Setter. You might give it a try and go thru the ordering process, stoping after the book has been assembled. Then find the pdf file that iPhoto creates and copy to the desktop. Then abort the ordering process. That pdf file often will contain the crop marks for the pages and you may see if the bleed change worked.
Otherwise you could use a 3rd party editor like Photoshop or Photoshop Elements to create a 11 x 8.5 canvas and copy and past your photos on it, placing them where you think they will avoid the binding. Then use that file on a 1 photo/page layout in the book.
Hope this has been of some help. Good luck.
OT

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