You will learn the process and techniques of creating fully illustrated (full-page image) picture books and children’s books using industry standard desktop layout software Adobe InDesign. We’ll also use Photoshop to prepare images for publication. (Open this page for examples of fixed layout, fully illustrated picture and children’s books.)
Used by illustrators, designers, artists, fashion designers, engineers, architects, and Web and mobile designers, Adobe Illustrator is the veteran vector graphics powerhouse that has dominated the market for 30 years. Illustrator gives users both absolute precision and unfettered artistic freedom to design logos, illustrations, products, maps, charts, photo-realistic paintings, and much more.
Adobe InDesign Training with world renowned InDesign guru Pariah Burke is an essential part of designing successful print and digital publications.
The best, most stylish, most interesting ebooks (ePUB, Mobi, iBooks, Kindle, more) are not those that use the default formatting and styling exported by InDesign, QuarkXPress, Pages, Word, or another program. The ebooks that people respond to most use different fonts, colored text, dropcaps, headings and subheads, embedded video, improved typography, and other enhancements we’ll cover in this deep dive into ebook design.
