Thread: Best book options for landscape pics

I'm making a book using iphoto for the first time, and am a bit frustrated at seeing my landscape images being turned into portraits, or cropped. Am I missing a way to either add borders to the top and bottom of images to keep them landscape, or to zoom out and ensure that I have the right dimensions for my images? I only have iphoto, and am really missing the editing tools of photoshop (might have to give in and buy it for mac). Thanks...

Different templates offer different opportunities. For a discussion of what each offers have a look at Liz Castro's excellent site here http://lizcastro.com/iphotobookthemes/ No, there is no way to add borders in iPhoto. It's editing capabilities are firmly focussed on processing after a shoot rather than pixel level editing like photoshop. That said, if all you want to do is add borders then Photoshop may well be overkill. In order...

I'm making a book using iphoto for the first time, and am a bit frustrated at seeing my landscape images being turned into portraits, or cropped. This happens in some photo frames - others change to accommodate your photo -- and this sometimes changes the whole page layout - Liz Castro discusses that here - http://www.lizcastro.com/iphotobookthemes/pmwiki.php?n=Main.OriginalOrientation Am I missing a way to either add borders to the top...