Overview
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Learn how to design an illustrated book, like a cookbook, children's book, or art book, with Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Exercise files and font usage
- Who is this course for?
- Setting up the document
- Creating layers
- Adding text variables to the slug area
- Creating a color palette
- Setting up a grid
- Choosing a typeface family and changing basic paragraph settings
- Adding master page items
- Creating additional master pages
- Setting up paragraph styles, part 1
- Setting up paragraph styles, part 2
- Setting up paragraph styles, part 3: Creating a style sequence
- Placing the text
- Adjusting the page order and editing styles
- Adding GREP styles
- An overview of the image workflow
- Editing the RAW images
- Placing the images
- Creating cut-out images
- Prepping the cover image
- Editing the cover image
- Adding the cover type, part 1
- Adding the cover type, part 2
- Creating the back cover and spine
- Creating the infographic
- Adding labels to the infographic
- Adding text to the infographic
- Adding texture to the infographic and placing it in InDesign
- Creating the section heads, part 1
- Creating the section heads, part 2
- Creating the section heads, part 3
- Adding the running footer
- Creating the table of contents, part 1
- Creating the table of contents, part 2
- Fixing the intercolumn rules
- Creating a print-ready PDF
- Creating a fixed-layout EPUB, part 1
- Creating a fixed-layout EPUB, part 2
- Creating a fixed-layout EPUB, part 3
- Goodbye
