Picture Book Customization

This is my first time putting together a picture book, so far the IPHoto application is great, however I was wondering, is there a reason why the customizations or restricted?
I seen a couple of layouts in different themes of picture books, why must I choose from a particular theme?
Why not make the books fully customizable.
I must admit im use to the flexibilty, & useability that are usually associated with Windows Applications. I got so excited comming down this road, only to be let down....
It would be so worth it!
Is there anyone else out there that allows a fully customizable Photo book?
if so please let me know. I can save my money!

David:
Welcome to the Apple Discussions. It appears that Apple has left complete customization to the new application, Aperture. iPhoto users are limited to what themes and layouts are included with iPhoto. You can go online to sites like Ofoto, SharedInk or Shutterfly to see if they allow total customization.
There's also a professional site that let the user layout the pages in Photoshop but their prices are about 4-5 times that of Apple.
OT

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Message was edited by: Sheryl Kingstone

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Disregard the above, as I was thinking of Photo Essay, try this instead.
Sorry.
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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,
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