Download Designing a Book

Explore book design with Nigel French, as he breaks down the components of an elegant and readable layout and jumps into the setup and strategy for designing a book from the ground up in Adobe InDesign. This class covers document setup, placing and styling text, working with images, creating the book cover, preparing the book for print and or distribution as an ebook.

Topics include:

• Getting to know your text
• Choosing a page size and format
• Setting margins
• Creating and applying paragraph styles
• Wrapping text around images
• Creating a table of contents
• Designing the front cover, spine, and back cover
• Exporting a print-ready PDF
• Uploading to Blurb
• Making an EPUB