LR book layout change

I've been using lightroom since it first came out and published several books with the book module. Today I have come upon a new problem.
I cannot get rid of a 4 photos per page layout. I have changed the setting on the right to single page after clearing the layout but no matter which collection ( old or new) I use I can only see
the same old 4 photo per page layout after hitting autofill. Help!!

Without doing a lot of experimenting with this, I presume a workable solution is to create a dummy book that has your custom settings. Then duplicate that book whenever you want to start a new book project.
Otherwise it probably requires using BBEdit to amend the book layouts in the Aperture Package folder and I wouldn't know where to begin with that (well, I have changed fonts that way).

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I'm making a photo book of a recent road trip. There are times when I select a page,,, perhaps a page with 6 photos. The layout appears as the grey squares with a large vertical one on the left, 4 small ones in the upper right and a larger square in the bottom left (in the 'picture book theme).,,,,,, a really nice 6 photo page. I get 4 photos in on the page and when I add the 5th photo the page flips and puts the large photo on the right side while at the same time changes the photo with one of the smaller ones.
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It's driving me a bit nutz. Is there something i'm missing?
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As a first step I save the “wrong page” as a PDF from the print dialogue. That gives me a template for positioning guide lines in Photoshop that match the sizes and margins in the book layout.
Then I open that PDF in PS. You will be prompted for a resolution and colour mode, use 300 pixels per inch and RGB mode. (If you've ended up with a multi-page PDF in the first step, PS allows you to select a specific page to open.)
When PS has rasterised the page, press Apple + R and position your guide lines by pulling them out from the page rulers – you might want to increase the magnification to 200%. Align the guide lines with the edges of your images.
Now you can delete the dummy layout image and fill the canvas with white. (At this point you might want to save the image as a template for future use.)
One by one you can now precisely place your images and crop them along the guide lines – Snap to Guides needs to be enabled for that. Once you’re satisfied, flatten the image and make sure it’s in the sRGB colour space. If not, go to Image > Adjust > Convert to Profile... to change it.
I save mine as JPEGs at maximum quality, but for instance Tiff would work fine, too.

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i have searched and seen this question asked, but not answered. i want to change the book layout so that it starts up with the metadata format that i want rather than having to change each page. there must be a way to do this permanently rather than changing the masters when i start a new book.

Without doing a lot of experimenting with this, I presume a workable solution is to create a dummy book that has your custom settings. Then duplicate that book whenever you want to start a new book project.
Otherwise it probably requires using BBEdit to amend the book layouts in the Aperture Package folder and I wouldn't know where to begin with that (well, I have changed fonts that way).

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As I'm arranging my pictures in my first Aperture book, there are a couple of photos that need a few simple adjustments. For the most part, this means lightening some of the darker, shadows, areas. I'm editing my book in "Split View" mode of course, within the Book Layout Editor mode. If I double-click on a picture thumbnail at the bottom and switch from the Library to Adjustments tab on the left-hand side I can make my simple changes. When I'm done, how do I "escape" the adjustments window? If I click back to the "Library" tab my book is already highlighted. If I double-click the book under the lists of projects in the Library tab, it edits the name of the book but I don't return to the Book Layout Editor mode. My single picture I just made an adjustment on remains on the screen. If I click the "Split View" icon in the toolbar, I get back to the split view of all my pictures in the book but there's still no Book Editor Mode... What am I missing? I can get back to the book by selecting another project (or book) and the re-selecting the book I was just working on from my list of "Projects & Albums", but this seems really klunky. Depending on which project I choose, this takes a moment as well. How do I return to my book after making an adjustment on a picture?
-Doug

Thanks for that. I thought I had clicked on every icon possible already. To get that icon back, though, I still have to switch from "single" image back to "split view" first. Is there a keyboard command for that besides cycling through the views?
-Doug

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Here's something to add to the plethora of bugs in iLife'11. Whenever I open a photo book that was created with an earlier version, I briefly see the "Upgrading photo book…" message, and after that, all photos are default-zoom and centered at their spots in the book layout!
I have >20 books in my library and a lot of effort went into making their layout just perfect. The problem does not yet appear in iPhoto 8.1.2, I have been experimenting with several "upgrade paths" from iPhoto 7.1.5 to iPhoto 9.0.1 now. It is clearly a problem in iPhoto 9.
When going directly from iPhoto 7 to 9, by the way, you lose all the key photo selections that you have done in your events (>200 for me…), as already reported here:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=12495859&#12495859
So if any of you are also keeping their photos in nicely layouted photo books, I strongly recommend waiting with the upgrade to iLife'11 until Apple fixes the upgrade process to NOT destroy any data.

Same problem here with all photo books!
iPhoto '11 does in fact display a warning after the update, something like "update successful, but please check before ordering". Well, I checked, and I found all books are corrupted (zoom and offset are wrong as described above).
This dialog however is a pathetic way of dealing with the (apparently known!) problem, Apple!
Even worse, I noticed that TimeMachine backup (inside iPhoto) does not list photo books, so the only way back (after wiping iPhoto 11 from the hard drive and re-installing the previous version) seems to be to replace the whole iPhoto Library manually (I sincerely hope that the photo books are stored in there and not anywhere else - does anyone know for sure?)
There also is no way to export a photo book (apart from non-editable PDF) and to re-import it on another MacOS installation (with an earlier version of iPhoto), is there? So until I find a solution and the time to try it out, I need to keep my pre-update backup of the whole iPhoto Library. And I must not make any significant changes to the new library, because there very probably is no way of merging those changes into the old one.
G.

Book editing - change a photo, book does not update

We are having a small problem. When editing our book, we double on some photos to edit them. Crop, color adjust, etc. Then we click done, and get sent back to our Book page.
Now about half the time the book preview does not update the image that we just changed. It seems to update the larger full page images more often than it updates the smaller images in the book layout. If I double click the photo again, I can see the change I previously made are still there, but they are not being reflected in the book preview.
So 2 questions, how do I force the book to update its photo preview? And if I print this will it use the edited photo, and not the version its showing me in the preview?
Assume this is just a screen display issue, and that the generated print will use the right assets, right?
This is in iLife '08 on Leopard on an intel Macbook.

Squeegy:
Welcome to the Apple Discussions. Try changing the layout, i.e. from frames with or without text to the other and then back. That may jump start the picture to display properly. It works for me when I do some cropping, like from landscape to portrait and the frame doesn't reset itself.
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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Layout change causes photos to be discarded

I love having a book making tool built right into Lightroom and Adobe has done a commendable job on the first release of the Book module. So far the interface has generally worked well for me. However...
Try this: Start with an auto-layout with 3 photos per page. Then, change one of the pages from 3 photos to 2 photos per page... Where did one of your photos go? Upon investigation, you'll notice that Lightroom randomly picks one of your photos to discard and does not place it in a new page or anywhere useful. It just gets dropped without a trace! Unless you're very aware of what is going on, you could quickly make a book with many missing photos.
This could be better handled in a number of ways, for example by automatically adding a new page for the dropped photo, or floating the dropped photo in the grey area outside of the page. In fact, the grey area could be very useful as a "working area" for shuffling photos around by drag & drop. Additionally, an animation could be used to show what's happening when the layout changes and a photo gets bumped off.
Also, and perhaps this is a bug - sometimes when changing from a 3-photo layout that only has 2 active photos to a 2-photo layout, the second photo gets bumped off even though there's an available spot for it in the new layout. The layout engine appears to sometimes prioritize the empty photo area over an actual photo - not good! I've also had instances when a photo get dropped when changing from a 3-photo layout to a different 3-photo layout. Very frustrating.
The photo usage count in the filmstrip is sort of helpful to find photos that were discarded but in my opinion, too disconnected from the layout area to make for a seamless working experience. As a side note, it should be possible in the filmstrip to locate where a photo is used in the book and vice versa.
Other than this, the Book module is a great start at book making from Adobe.
Tom

Marcin
Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
Your issue seems to be with the underlying file system, not with iPhoto.
Some background:
Events in the iPhoto Window correspond exactly with the Folders in the Originals Folder in the iPhoto Library package file (Right click on it in the Pictures Folder -> Show Package Contents).
You can move photos between Events, you can rename Events, edit them, create them, as long as you do it via the iPhoto Window. Check out the Info Pane (wee 'i', lower left) the name and date fields are editable. Edit a Event Name using the Info Pane, the Event Folder in iPhoto Library/Originals will also have the new name.
When you move files between Events they are also moved on the HD.
Couldn't convert path /Users/dominika/Pictures/iPhoto Library/Originals/2001/Inne/070_RockyNeckCT14.jpg" to an FSRef to put on the pasteboard.
means that, for some reason, the file system is unable to execute that move. (That's the reference to the FSRef). However, iPhoto thinks the file was moved, hence the !.
I've simply never seen this issue reported here before. Is everything else on your Mac working correctly?
First off:
Check your HD for errors with Disk Utility, see if that reports anything.
Regards
TD

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