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Designing a Print-Ready Book - Part 1

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Overview

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Learn to design a print-ready book using InDesign and Photoshop in this comprehensive tutorial. Follow along as designer Anjela Freyja creates "How to Survive a Pandemic - Self-Care Tips from 2020," an original book about staying healthy and happy during challenging times. Master essential skills such as setting up documents with dynamic fonts, custom layouts, and engaging color palettes. Explore topics including project overview, navigating InDesign, font selection and kerning, utilizing the Technical Workspace for print-ready pages, job hunting tips, establishing columns and margins, and document organization techniques. Gain valuable insights from Anjela's expertise as an Art Director and Designer based in Montreal, Canada, and benefit from host Julia Masalska's perspective as a freelance graphic designer.

Syllabus

Start
Intro and project overview
Jumping into indesign
Fonts and kerning
Opening the Technical Workspace/Print Ready Page
Finding work
Setting up columns and margins
On organizing your documents

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Adobe Creative Cloud

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