InDesign CC: Book Production, Laying a solid foundation

InDesign CC: Book Production, Laying a solid foundation, available at $19.99, has an average rating of 4.25, with 27 lectures, 1 quizzes, based on 64 reviews, and has 295 subscribers.

You will learn about Select book size, margins, column width, and more for the print version of their books Develop typographically excellent paragraph designs coupled with the knowledge needed to make professional decisions Will be able to set up an efficient default set of paragraph styles and character styles This course is ideal for individuals who are An author or graphic designer who needs to produce better quality books and ebooks, or The designer who needs typographic skill It is particularly useful for An author or graphic designer who needs to produce better quality books and ebooks, or The designer who needs typographic skill.

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Summary

Title: InDesign CC: Book Production, Laying a solid foundation

Price: $19.99

Average Rating: 4.25

Number of Lectures: 27

Number of Quizzes: 1

Number of Published Lectures: 27

Number of Published Quizzes: 1

Number of Curriculum Items: 30

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 30

Number of Practice Tests: 1

Number of Published Practice Tests: 1

Original Price: $39.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

Select book size, margins, column width, and more for the print version of their books
Develop typographically excellent paragraph designs coupled with the knowledge needed to make professional decisions
Will be able to set up an efficient default set of paragraph styles and character styles

Who Should Attend

An author or graphic designer who needs to produce better quality books and ebooks,
The designer who needs typographic skill

Target Audiences

An author or graphic designer who needs to produce better quality books and ebooks,
The designer who needs typographic skill

This is an essential typography course. Books, almost more than any project, need superlative typography to enable your readers to actually read the book. Without these skills and knowledge, your books will be compromised before you even release them.

You will discover why InDesign is necessary for book production. Word, and word processors in general, do not even have the capability of producing excellent typography.

This course covers the basic concepts you need to understand before you start putting your book together: how to set up your document—size, margins, and column width; Typography: what it is and how you produce excellent, readable typography so you can design your paragraphs to enable your readers to comfortably enjoy reading your book. By the time you finish the course, you will be amazed at all you didn’t know about typography, readability, and how to communicate with your readers [or the readers of your clients].

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: As we get started

Lecture 1: Introduction to the course

Lecture 2: The current publishing world and in-demand publishing

Lecture 3: Here's the 500+ page book I wrote about book production. It covers more…

Lecture 4: As we get started, you have several decisions to make

Lecture 5: First Demo: Starting a new document the dialog box

Lecture 6: The single-story concept and the PTF: how crucial this is!

Lecture 7: How the PTF [Primary Text Frame] works: Demo

Chapter 2: Section 2: Basic Typography

Lecture 1: What is typography? You probably don't know…

Lecture 2: The basic characters in a font: the 256 character ASCII set

Lecture 3: Typographically necessary characters inside and out of ASCII

Lecture 4: A demo on finding OpenType features and special glyphs

Lecture 5: Fonts and simple classifications

Lecture 6: Exploring fonts

Chapter 3: Paragraph design for global control and readability

Lecture 1: Paragraph design: the core of typography

Lecture 2: Paragraph Style Options: the New Style dialog box

Lecture 3: Adding the Character Panel options

Lecture 4: Taking a quick look at TypeKit

Lecture 5: Alignments, Indents, & Paragraph Spacing tips

Lecture 6: Tabs & Paragraph Rules

Lecture 7: Paragraph shading, tint boxes, and sidebars

Lecture 8: Keeping your widows, orphans, & runts under control

Lecture 9: Neat, tidy paragraphs: Hyphenation & Justification

Lecture 10: Split/span columns, drop caps, and nested styles

Lecture 11: Find & Change: GREP

Lecture 12: Building a list demo

Lecture 13: Completing the Paragraph Style dialog box

Chapter 4: Building a set of default styles

Lecture 1: A set of default styles

Instructors

David Bergsland
Author, font designer, & publisher at The Skilled Workman

Rating Distribution

1 stars: 3 votes
2 stars: 3 votes
3 stars: 8 votes
4 stars: 23 votes
5 stars: 27 votes

Frequently Asked Questions

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You can view and review the lecture materials indefinitely, like an on-demand channel.

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