CreativePro Week, the massive show that includes this year’s InDesign Conference, is less than two months away! So many great speakers will be there including Nigel French, who will be sharing some of his best tips and advice for working with type, photography, layouts, and much more. And if you want a sneak peek, you can watch Nigel touch on all of those topics in his Lynda.com course, Designing an Illustrated Book.
Here’s the official description:
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.
Topics include:
- Setting up the document
- Creating layers and a grid
- Building a color palette
- Adding master pages
- Setting up paragraph styles and GREP styles
- Creating and placing images
- Designing the cover
- Adding an infographic
- Creating section heads, footers, and a table of contents
- Exporting a PDF and an EPUB
In the free video below, Nigel shares the details of his image workflow, where uses camera raw files and batch processing to choose which images will make it into the final book. Check it out!
Overview of the Image Workflow
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Placing Images
Creating Cut-out Images
Editing the Cover Image
This article was last modified on July 25, 2019
This article was first published on March 24, 2017
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