Iphoto 6.0.4 - missing book themes

I hope someone can help me with this one.
Yesterday I upgraded to 10.4.7 from 10.3.? - I have never had any problem with iphoto until now. I can start a new book and choose a theme - BUT thre themes come up blank. crayon, baby girl and baby boy. I am a children's photographer and I use these three themes very often. If I create a new book I can select my theme at first, but then if I click on the themes icon from the book layout screen nothing happens. Also in the medium size theme choices these three themes are listed twice with no picture next to them. If I click on one of them a new book starts, but with nothing on the pages except grey photo boxes. All the cards, and calendar work fine.

TabithaQ:
Welcome to the Apple Discussions. Did you repair disk permissions with Disk Utility after upgrading to 10.4.7? If not do so.
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I know for sure that I am missing certain themes for the book. Not so sure about the calendar and the greeting card/postcard themes. I use to have access to themes like storybook and baby but not anymore. How do I get it back? How do I get iPhoto '08 to read the old themes?
Thanks in advance.

Jamus:
If you've started a book with an old theme, iPhoto 7 will continue with its creation but that theme will not be available for new books. If you like that theme, make a duplicate of the book and save it to use with other photos at some later date.
Don't change the theme to see what the book would look like in one of the other themes as you won't be able to return to it.
Do you Twango?
TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance.
I've written an Automator workflow application (requires Tiger), iPhoto dB File Backup, that will copy the selected Library6.iPhoto file from your iPhoto Library folder to the Pictures folder, replacing any previous version of it. It's compatible with iPhoto 08 libraries. You can download it at Toad's Cellar. Be sure to read the Read Me pdf file.

Using iPhoto Book Themes in Aperture

I would like to use the iPhoto book themes in Aperture.
Anyway of importing them.
Thanks, Paul.
iMac Intel Core Duo 20", 2 GB RAM Mac OS X (10.4.6) Nikon Coolscan V ED, Nikon D200, Iomega MiniMax

In iPhoto-08 I have 13 book themes and in Aperture 2.0.1 I have 8 beautiful themes, fully customizable that is. I am also able to make my own Custom Themes.
The new themes is Formal and Modern Lines.
You can find more info on this at:
www.apple.com/aperture/features/100.html
I think that the reason for more themes in iPhoto is that iPhoto is aimed at the consumer market and Aperture for the professional market. If I really would like to make a book with the Crayon- or the Water Color theme (would I ever?) I certainly would update preview for those images and then make the book in iPhoto.
IMHO the book options has become more flexible in v2 although there are some issues yet and some features I really would like to see in an upcoming upgrade.
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any ideas?
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Schnobby
Welcome to the Apple user to user assistance forums
No - iPhoto and Aperture are totally different and you can not share the templates
You can do a map page in iPhoto and print that page to PDF selecting the send PDF to iPhoto option which will create an image of the map in iPhoto - then export that image and import it to Aperture (or upload to MobileMe or use any places that images can be user)
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How can I create or customize an iPhoto book theme?

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So far, for iPhoto, I have done the following:
1. Copied one of the existing themes in /Library/Application Support/iPhoto/Themes;
2. Renamed all the files, and references to files to my new theme name;
3. Copied the necessary files in the /Library/Application Support/iPhoto/Themes/Shared folder.
This works, in as much as I see the new theme in the choices in iPhoto. However, the pages are blank, and not editable. The only way to make them editable again is to change the "CFBundleIdentifier" back to an existing theme, eg "com.apple.framework.iPhoto.Contemporary-Hardcover"
I have scoured the system, and I can not see any frameworks folders or files identified by iPhoto themes. Is "com.apple.framework.iPhoto.Contemporary-Hardcover" a call to a compiled function in the program itself? In other words, is this something only Apple can alter, or does anyone have any new leads for me to follow?

This is not an exact match of what you point to as an example, but you might conisder it...
http://www.flashxml.net/cover-flow.html
Play with the various adjustments and see if it is something you can use.

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i plugged in my iphone 4s into my mac book to dowload pictures but itunes nor iphoto came up. i manually opened them and my iphone wasent on there. how can i fix this?

dfsadfdsfsdf wrote:
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I'm running iPhoto '09 (8.1.2) on my MBP running Lion and it recognizes my 4S without any problem.

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Gene

IPhoto Book Themes - Printed Guides

Hi,
Many of you are familiar with my rather obsessive site documenting all the different layouts that you can create with each iPhoto book theme: http://www.lizcastro.com/iphotobookthemes
I've long thought it would be handy to have a printable version, concisely laid out, to serve as a reference guide, right on my desk, while I'm creating a book. The result is 16 individual e-books (in PDF format) that exhaustively, concisely, and beautifully show you every possible layout in each of iPhoto's themes, all updated to reflect iPhoto '09 version 8.11.
Which theme allows captions? Which lets you put 8 photos on a single page? How do you get one large vertical next to two smaller horizontals? It's all laid out in these new ebooks.
I am giving away the Modern Lines theme guide for free for a limited time. The only thing I ask in exchange is feedback on how useful you think it is and if this is something you can imagine buying in the future (though of course, there's no obligation).
I will continue to update the Web site as well.
If you're interested in seeing the sample, just drop me a line. (http://www.elizabethcastro.com/html/contact.html)
kind regards,
Liz

there is no download - click here for a discussion on reinstalling themes.
LN

Iphoto 11 book theme summary?

Hiya,
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I have searched on the internet and can not seem to find a nice summary for iphoto 11. I did find Liz Castro's iphotobookthemes.com website but this is for v9 not v11 and again does not summarise which features are available for which theme on one page.
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AC

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LN

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I haven't done prints through Apple, and I'm not sure it's the same company. I did three books last year, was very happy with the results, and they have impressed everyone I show them to. Lots of posters here are similarly happy--try a search for some reports. The pages are not quite as thick and shiny as a coffee-table book you'd get in the bookstore, but they are very nice.
Also, I suspect that if you get it, hate the quality, and write a screed to Apple, they will refund your money without a big hassle. I know FedEx said they had delivered something I never received last xmas--Apple just credited my card back a day or so after my report.
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IPhoto '09 book themes

Hey everyone,
Just wanted to let you know that I've updated my web site of iPhoto book theme descriptions to reflect the changes in iPhoto '09: http://www.lizcastro.com/iphotobookthemes
There you can find descriptions and examples for every single layout in every single iPhoto book theme. Most of the new stuff is about maps and the Travel theme, though there are minor changes in every theme.
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best,
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Thank you so much for all of your work - your site makes planning a book (and sometimes trouble shooting one) so much easier
Now on to calendars
One minor comment (so far) there is no iPhoto '07 - it went from iPhoto 6 to iPhoto '08 (version 7.x.x) to iPhoto '09 (version 8.x.x) just to see how carefully people pay attention
LN
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MISSING BOOKS from iPhoto

MISSING BOOKS: We upgraded to iLife 08. Our BOOKS created in iPhoto 6 are now missing.

Welcome to the Apple Discussions. Do you have a backup copy of the library. If not then they've be lost for good.
Do you Twango?
TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance.
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Is there a way to modify the template for a book theme in iPhoto '08?
I'd like to use the Folio theme to create a printable book, but the default text boxes don't meet my needs (I'd like to collapse the three tiny text fields into a single one with a larger font size).
I'd be willing to edit a Library file if that's what is needed.

herve-french,
I have played around with the book themes a little and here's what I have found out so far.
The iPhoto Book Theme support files are located here:
Library > Application Support > iPhoto > Themes.
Each theme for books, calendars, postcards, etc has a folder.
The theme name (what is displayed in iPhoto) is in this file:
Theme-folder > Contents > Resources > language.lproj > Localizable.strings
Theme-folder is the folder name of the theme.
language is English, French, da, etc.
This file opens in Xcode by default, but can be edited by TextEdit.
The theme name is the sixth line of this file. Look for "ThemeName".
To test this discovery I removed a few folders and created a new one:
1) I removed the folders of themes I probably will never use, e.g. baby Boy, Crayon, etc.
2) I copied the folder PictureBook-Hardcover.IPBookTheme and renamed it PictureBookFrancis-Hardcover.IPBookTheme. I then edited PictureBookFrancis-Hardcover.IPBookTheme > Contents > Resources > English.lproj > Localizable.strings, renaming the theme from "Picture Book" to "Picture Book Francis".
Before testing the updated themes, I deleted the theme cache in the iPhoto Library:
Select iPhoto Libary, Control-Click and choose "Show Package Contents". The file to delete is "ThemeCache". I also deleted the folder "Caches",but I don't think that's necessary.
Launch iPhoto, choose to create a new Book, the Theme pop-up window should now exclude the themes that were deleted and it should include the new Theme.
So now I know how to create a new theme based on an existing one. The next step is to figure out how to change the layout and the sizes of photo boxes on the pages. I expect that deleting the ThemeCache file after all changes should load up the updated information.
Needless to say, files and folders should be backed-up.
Regards,
Francis.

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lucia

Hi Old Toad again!
I Ready this post from you:
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2. I ready your # 9a Tutorial. It has to be done 1 book at the time? I have about 30 books, how should I do it?
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Lucia

IPhoto book themes

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