2015
Lynda
Nigel French
2:30
English

Learn how to design an illustrated book, like a cookbook, children's book, or art book, with InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop. Nigel French helps you assemble text, photos, and infographics into a stunning layout with front and back covers. Along the way, he dives into the nuts and bolts of working with paragraph, character, and object styles, and captions, grids, headers, and master pages—all the elements that make designing an illustrated book such a challenge. At the end of the course, he'll help you prepare two versions of the book: one for print, and one for digital publication.

Introduction
Welcome
Exercise files and font usage
Who is this course for?
1. It's All About Planning
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
2. Placing and Styling the Text
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
3. Working with Images
An overview of the image workflow
Editing the RAW images
Placing the images
Creating cut-out images
4. Designing the Cover
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
5. Adding an Infographic
Creating the infographic
Adding labels to the infographic
Adding text to the infographic
Adding texture to the infographic and placing it in InDesign
6. Adding the Section Spreads and Table of Contents
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
7. Output
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
Conclusion
Goodbye

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