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
http://www.lynda.com/InDesign-tutorials/Designing-Book/114894-2.html?srchtrk=index:1%0Alinktypeid:2%0Aq:designing%2Ba%2Bbook%0Apage:1%0As:relevance%0Asa:true%0Aproducttypeid:2
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
http://www.lynda.com/InDesign-tutorials/Designing-Book/114894-2.html?srchtrk=index:1%0Alinktypeid:2%0Aq:designing%2Ba%2Bbook%0Apage:1%0As:relevance%0Asa:true%0Aproducttypeid:2