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Possibly restore older iPhoto themes in iPhoto '08 Apps
Upon trying to create a book in iPhoto '08, I noticed a lot of the old themes were not available. Browsing around, I found the theme folder for iPhoto in the top-level Library folder, in Application Support » iPhoto » Themes.

Inside that folder were many themes not available through iPhoto itself, but that were available in older versions. As one example, BabyBoy-Hardcover.IPBookTheme isn't available in the list of book themes pop-up menu, but it is in that folder. I can't guarantee how safe/legal the following process is, but I was able to enable the old themes by editing a parameter in that theme's Contents/Resources folder.

I opened Contents » Resources » Implementation.plist in a text editor (or Property List Editor) and changed the Hidden parameter from yes to no. After saving my changes and restarting iPhoto, the old theme was available in iPhoto.

[robg adds: I used BBEdit and ran a multi-file search to find the hidden themes; it found 71 folders. However, I had trouble getting most of them to work; even when I switched off the hidden variable, the theme didn't show in iPhoto. Also, when I did enabled the theme in the hint, when I turned it off again it still showed up, so I'm guessing there's probably another plist file that gets modified when the theme shows up. Use this hint only if you really really need support for an older theme (and even then, it may not work).]
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