InDesign CC- Book Production, Putting the book together

InDesign CC: Book Production, Putting the book together, available at $19.99, has an average rating of 3.65, with 59 lectures, based on 26 reviews, and has 304 subscribers.

You will learn about Design and produce an excellent print version of a book Create a full-color downloadable PDF version Make a Kindle Print Replica, Kids book, or Comic version Convert the downloadable PDF into an ePUB FXL [fixed layout] Convert the downloadable PDF into an ePUB Reflowable version Convert the ePUB Reflow into a Kindle book Upload the book versions to the various distributors and aggregators Develop an online platform for marketing the author and the books This course is ideal for individuals who are The graphic designer or author who needs to handle the complexity more easily or The author looking to improve the writing experience, as well as making the book release simple It is particularly useful for The graphic designer or author who needs to handle the complexity more easily or The author looking to improve the writing experience, as well as making the book release simple.

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Summary

Title: InDesign CC: Book Production, Putting the book together

Price: $19.99

Average Rating: 3.65

Number of Lectures: 59

Number of Published Lectures: 59

Number of Curriculum Items: 62

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 62

Original Price: $84.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

Design and produce an excellent print version of a book

Create a full-color downloadable PDF version

Make a Kindle Print Replica, Kids book, or Comic version

Convert the downloadable PDF into an ePUB FXL [fixed layout]

Convert the downloadable PDF into an ePUB Reflowable version

Convert the ePUB Reflow into a Kindle book

Upload the book versions to the various distributors and aggregators

Develop an online platform for marketing the author and the books

Who Should Attend

The graphic designer or author who needs to handle the complexity more easily

The author looking to improve the writing experience, as well as making the book release simple

Target Audiences

The graphic designer or author who needs to handle the complexity more easily

The author looking to improve the writing experience, as well as making the book release simple

This is a very practical course. There is a lot to learn, but none of it is very difficult. It is very?complex though. It is the goal of the course to make the complexity easy to understand and relatively simple to execute. If you have any questions, just send me a message or email me directly

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Assembling the pieces of the book

Lecture 1: A welcome plus making a place to store everything

Lecture 2: A public domain book: learning the workspace

Lecture 3: Book One: Examining the template

Lecture 4: Examining downloaded folder content

Lecture 5: How to quickly rough format a document

Lecture 6: Formatting the locally formatted copy

Lecture 7: Cleaning up widows, orphans, and runts

Lecture 8: Finishing your first book

Lecture 9: Working fully formatted

Chapter 2: Adding the content

Lecture 1: Setting up InDesign to work for you

Lecture 2: Setting up a new book file

Lecture 3: Bringing in a word processing file

Chapter 3: Dealing with the graphics

Lecture 1: A quick and grungy look at some graphics

Lecture 2: Vector and bitmap graphics how theyre used

Lecture 3: Playing with a vector lizard

Lecture 4: Why we draw in InDesign

Lecture 5: Dealing with Office graphics & InDesigns tools

Lecture 6: Getting Started with the pen tool

Lecture 7: FrameTools and the Pencil

Lecture 8: Combining paths: Grouping, Compound, and Pathfinder

Lecture 9: A combining paths demo showing some of the difficulties

Lecture 10: Managing your JPEGs & their artifacts

Lecture 11: Graphic formats used for print and ebooks

Lecture 12: The Links and Swatches panels are very powerful

Lecture 13: Copy/Paste from Illustrator & our first look at anchored objects

Lecture 14: Learning the Anchored Object dialog box

Lecture 15: Dealing with anchored objects: frames and content

Chapter 4: Formatting the book

Lecture 1: A look at the styles you use: Body Copy

Lecture 2: Paragraph styles you use: lists, heads, subheads, pull quotes and sidebars

Lecture 3: Formatting front to back

Lecture 4: Checking out the resources of your new book

Lecture 5: Some possible solutions as you format your assignment

Lecture 6: Designing tables

Chapter 5: Adding front & back matter

Lecture 1: Discussing front and back matter for a book

Lecture 2: Adding the front matter section to the Letterpress book

Lecture 3: Producing a Table of Contents

Lecture 4: Producing an Index

Lecture 5: Adding footnotes

Lecture 6: Formatting concepts, tips, and norms

Chapter 6: Designing a cover

Lecture 1: Some cover design issues and concepts

Lecture 2: Setting up for a quick cover tutorial

Lecture 3: Building your cover image using Effects and Modes

Lecture 4: Finishing off a couple of covers

Chapter 7: Versioning: producing the various distributed versions

Lecture 1: The different requirements for the various formats

Lecture 2: Public Domain project: exporting the PDFs

Lecture 3: Designing ePUBs and using hyperlinks

Lecture 4: Beginning to design your ePUBs

Lecture 5: Design issues with graphics and fonts

Lecture 6: Other ePUB design issues you need to check

Lecture 7: Demoing an ePUB FXL: Part 1

Lecture 8: Part 2 of the FXL demo

Lecture 9: Converting the book for Reflow

Lecture 10: Exporting your new ePUB Reflow

Lecture 11: Producing and exporting a book which will work for Kindle

Lecture 12: Using Adobes Publish Online

Chapter 8: Marketing & Distribution choices

Lecture 1: Uploading your Createspace book

Lecture 2: Dealing with the distributors and aggregators

Lecture 3: What do you mean I have to market my books?!

Lecture 4: Some closing thoughts

Instructors

David Bergsland
Author, font designer, & publisher at The Skilled Workman

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5 stars: 10 votes

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