Vertical Photos in Book

I am attempting to create a book with a lot of vertical photos. The layout pages are almost all for horizontal photos and the vertical photos are not properly proportioned. Are there pages I'm missing with more layouts for vertical photos or is there a way of making my own layout pages, other than blank.

Liz Castro has produced samples of all of the layouts for all of the themes for iPhoto books making it easy to scan the possibilities -- http://www.lizcastro.com/iphotobookthemes/
Note that in some layouts when you place a portrait photo in a landscape frame the frame switches orientation and in some it just crops the photo - http://www.lizcastro.com/iphotobookthemes/pmwiki.php?n=Main.OriginalOrientation
If you photos are not standard point and shoot photos in a 4:3 ratio they will be cropped since all of the book frames are 4:3 - you can right click on a photo and choose fit to frame to avoid cropping
there is not currently any way to customize pages in iPhoto -- you can generate pages in MS Word, pages, pagermaker, InDesign, etc and do a print to PDF using the send PDF to iPhoto option to create a custom page - see Old Toad's tutorial #19 for details - http://toadstutorials.info/
LN

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click on the image and see if it is masked, even if you did not apply the mask yourself if it is a place holder it is a mask of sorts. When clicking on the image if the image is masked a little semi-transparent menu appears on or near the image that controls the size of the image you can also move the photo around in the mask.
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