Designing Low-Content Books [Journals, Planners & Workbooks] in PowerPoint

Go to class
Write Review

Free Online Course: Designing Low-Content Books [Journals, Planners & Workbooks] in PowerPoint provided by Skillshare is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 1-2 hours worth of material. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Designing Low-Content Books [Journals, Planners & Workbooks] in PowerPoint is taught by Rebecca Livermore.

Overview
  • Low-content books such as journals, planners, and workbooks are popular for good reason. Here are just a few of the benefits: 

    • They’re much faster and easier to create than other books. 
    • They can make nice companion books to your other books. For instance, you can create a workbook, planner, or journal that goes hand-in-hand with your other book(s). 
    • You can create a low-content book for your own use, designed exactly the way you desire. 
    • They make excellent gifts. 
    • You can add them to your list of products or create an entire business based on low-content books 

    The great news is, you don’t need any special or expensive software to create beautiful books. All you need is something you likely already have – PowerPoint.  

    This course provides step-by-step instructions for using PowerPoint to create a variety of low-content book pages. Among other things you’ll learn: 

    • How to properly set up your pages  
    • A trick for adding margins to your PowerPoint slides 
    • How to create a variety of page types such as lined pages, dot (bullet-style) journal pages, graph paper, and more 
    • How to create a variety to your pages using elements such as borders, lines, shapes, images, and more 

    By the end of this class you’ll be able to quickly and easily create unique low-content books in PowerPoint that you can gives as gifts, use for your own purposes, or make available to others in print or PDF form.   

Syllabus
    • Intro
    • Why Create Low-Content Books?
    • Planning Your Low-Content Book
    • Grayscale Vs. Color
    • Trim Size and Bleed
    • Create Custom Page Sizes
    • Set Up Margins
    • Create Lined Pages
    • Create Manuscript Pages
    • Create Dot Journal Pages
    • Create Graph Paper
    • Create Drawing Plus Text Pages
    • Create Comic-Book-Style Pages
    • Create Text-Heavy Pages
    • Create Checklists
    • Create Calendar Pages
    • Adding Borders
    • Creating Design Elements Using Shapes
    • Adding Images
    • Combining Elements to Create Unique Pages
    • Front Matter
    • Duplicating Pages and Sections
    • Saving as a PDF
    • Your Project