Themes for aperture

Hi, I have recently purchased Aperture and Themes for aperture. However, I do not see the additional 105 themes inside the Aperture software, can anyone here advise?
Secondly, how do we tell whether the Aperture software which purchased from AppStore is the latest Aperture 3?
Regards
Roy

Well put.  (I'm about to finish upgrading my on-line portfolio to a more expensive gallery hosting site in order to remove more distractions.  My goal is to show the pictures, not the packaging, be it a site or a slideshow.)
leonieDF wrote:
Lastly, can we purchase additional slideshow themes for Aperture 3? thks
I don't know of any third-party slideshow themes, sorry.  I usually use the basic themes anyway - I do not want the slideshow effects to distract from my photos
Kirby, do you know of additional themes?
I don't.  Does Aperture now have all the ones that were available in iPhoto?  Iirc, iPhoto used to have a couple that Aperture did not.  I'm sure that there are many slideshow programs available outside of Aperture -- cgwebster may have to use one of them if a plug-in isn't available for the look s/he wants.

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