Illustrating Children's Picture Books with PowerPoint

Illustrating Children's Picture Books with PowerPoint, available at $74.99, has an average rating of 4.8, with 60 lectures, based on 17 reviews, and has 126 subscribers.

You will learn about Use Microsoft PowerPoint to illustrate your children's picture book. Use free images off the Internet to illustrate your children's picture book. Draw your own simple composite illustrations for your children's picture book. Add text to your children's picture book to tell your story. This course is ideal for individuals who are This course is for those new to illustration looking for a really simple illustration environment. It is particularly useful for This course is for those new to illustration looking for a really simple illustration environment.

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Summary

Title: Illustrating Children's Picture Books with PowerPoint

Price: $74.99

Average Rating: 4.8

Number of Lectures: 60

Number of Published Lectures: 60

Number of Curriculum Items: 60

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 60

Original Price: $79.99

Quality Status: approved

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What You Will Learn

Use Microsoft PowerPoint to illustrate your children's picture book.
Use free images off the Internet to illustrate your children's picture book.
Draw your own simple composite illustrations for your children's picture book.
Add text to your children's picture book to tell your story.

Who Should Attend

This course is for those new to illustration looking for a really simple illustration environment.

Target Audiences

This course is for those new to illustration looking for a really simple illustration environment.

Hello,

Welcome to my course, Illustrating Children’s Picture Books with PowerPoint.

In this course, I explain how to use Microsoft PowerPoint to illustrate a children’s picture book. The first third of the course demonstrates the entire process using illustrations found on the Internet. The second half explains how to use PowerPoint to draw any shape. The third part, the original beginning of the course, explains how to create a simple children’s book.

Learn to illustrate children’s picture books even if you can’t draw.

My name is Brian Jackson. I’m the instructor of the course. I’m also the writer of over one dozen books, publisher of well over 100 Amazon Kindle e-books and instructor with almost 40 Udemy courses to my name.

In this course, I demonstrate using Microsoft PowerPoint to create a children’s picture book. More specifically, I address the following topics in detail:

How to configure Microsoft PowerPoint to output images in 300 DPI resolution.
How to use free images from the Internet to illustrate your story.
How to use free images from the Microsoft Office 365 resource library to illustrate your story.
How to use Microsoft PowerPoint to draw any free form image.

Learn to create professional quality children’s picture books the easy way.

I am directing this course to writers new to Amazon illustrating children’s picture books and those old timers wanting to brush up their illustration and PowerPoint skills.

Whichever is the case, I look forward to joining you on a journey through the lectures ahead.

I’ll see you in the classroom,

—Brian

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Course Overview

Lecture 2: Course Resources

Lecture 3: How to Watch This Course

Chapter 2: PowerPoint 101

Lecture 1: Screen Layout and Navigation

Lecture 2: Creating and Manipulating Elements

Chapter 3: PowerPoint Page Setup

Lecture 1: Setting PowerPoint Export Resolution to 300 DPI (Document)

Lecture 2: Setting PowerPoint Export Resolution to 300 DPI (Video)

Lecture 3: Setting PowerPoint 2016 Export Resolution to 300 DPI

Lecture 4: Defining Your Page Size

Lecture 5: PowerPoint Page Setup Project

Chapter 4: Finding and Using Existing Illustrations

Lecture 1: Using Free Illustrations from Pixabay

Chapter 5: Page Backgrounds

Lecture 1: Importing Page Backgrounds

Lecture 2: Creating Page Backgrounds Part I

Lecture 3: Creating Page Backgrounds Part II

Lecture 4: Creating Abstract Design Backgrounds

Lecture 5: Page Background Project

Chapter 6: Layers

Lecture 1: Layers and Element Stacking Order

Chapter 7: Office 365 Library Resources

Lecture 1: Using Office 365 Library Resources

Lecture 2: Constructing and Coloring Cartoon Characters Part I

Lecture 3: Constructing and Coloring Cartoon Characters Part II

Lecture 4: Office 365 Library Resources Project

Chapter 8: Text

Lecture 1: Inserting and Configuring Text

Lecture 2: Making Your Text Pop

Lecture 3: Using Free Fonts from DaFont

Lecture 4: Running Text Around Objects

Lecture 5: Text Transformation

Lecture 6: Text Project

Chapter 9: Creating a Page

Lecture 1: Creating a Page

Lecture 2: Creating a Page Project

Chapter 10: Preparing Your Book for Publication

Lecture 1: Book Cover, Title Page and Copyright

Lecture 2: Headers and Footers

Chapter 11: Publishing Your Book

Lecture 1: Exporting JPEGs and a PDF

Lecture 2: Self-publishing and Amazon Book with KDP

Chapter 12: Intermission

Lecture 1: Please Leave a Review

Chapter 13: Advanced Children's Book Illustration Using PowerPoint

Lecture 1: Draw Any Shape in PowerPoint

Lecture 2: Drawing and Correcting Freeform Shapes

Lecture 3: Drawing Curves in PowerPoint

Lecture 4: Sources of Free Images

Lecture 5: Outlining Images Using PowerPoint Vector Graphic Shapes

Lecture 6: Shape Solid Fills, Gradients and Outlines

Lecture 7: Grouping Objects

Chapter 14: Floral Bouquet Workshop

Lecture 1: Creating the Leaf

Lecture 2: Creating the Flower

Lecture 3: Creating the Bouquet

Lecture 4: Creating the Frame

Chapter 15: Mushroom Workshop

Lecture 1: Constructing the Mushroom

Chapter 16: Busy Bee Workshop

Lecture 1: Giving Busy Bee a Space Suit

Lecture 2: Outlining Busy Bee with Vector Elements

Chapter 17: Incorporating Text From Word

Lecture 1: Copy and Paste Text From Word to PowerPoint Layout

Chapter 18: Original Course Material

Lecture 1: Course Overview

Lecture 2: Where to Find Free and Inexpensive Images

Lecture 3: "Roscoe Goes Swimming" in PowerPoint

Lecture 4: PowerPoint Bootcamp I

Lecture 5: PowerPoint Bootcamp II

Lecture 6: Using Free Google Slides in place of Paid Microsoft PowerPoint 2013

Chapter 19: Deprecated Original Course Material

Lecture 1: Creating a Paperback Book Cover in KDP

Lecture 2: Using PowerPoint to Format Your Book for CreateSpace

Lecture 3: Using Free Google Slides in place of Paid Microsoft PowerPoint 2013

Chapter 20: Conclusion

Lecture 1: Course Summary

Lecture 2: Bonus Lecture

Instructors

Brian Jackson, Writing, Self-publishing and Marketing an Amazon Kindle eBook and Book with Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and KDP
Author, Publisher and Educator

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