Portrait oriented images in Picture Book theme

I am starting to put together my first trial book and so far haven't found a way to insert a portrait image into the (landscape) Picture Book layout.
Is the only possible method to create a new landscape image in Photoshop with a portrait image within it. Or is there a more straightforward method?
Many thanks
Richard Lewisohn

Jerome, I think I've worked this out now. Previously I had tried to double click an image in the book layout but the handles to drag the image to a different aspect ration hadn't appeared. Also the 'Photo Box Aspect Ratio' buttons were grayed out.
Anyway, now the handles have some appeared!
Next of all I'll investigate proofing with your suggested profile.
Kind regards
Richard

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