Mastering the Art of Creative Photo Bookmaking

Mastering the Art of Creative Photo Bookmaking, available at $59.99, has an average rating of 4.55, with 66 lectures, 7 quizzes, based on 71 reviews, and has 370 subscribers.

You will learn about Create impressive digital photo books using a range of simple-to-follow design, layout, retouching and editing processes Be able to choose the most suitable bookmaking software for any project Understand how to best use different fonts, font styles and font families Enhance your front covers using drop shadows and (free) custom fonts Understand the differences between book themes, styles and paper options Get to know the basics of colour calibration Learn how relatively easy it is to use affordable editing software Master basic photo editing techniques to achieve picture pefection This course is ideal for individuals who are This class is ideally suited for beginners wanting to create beautiful-looking photo books or The class is taught in an easy-to-understand format using basic techniques, and simple software to achieve professional results or Though initially targetting beginners, these resources can be easily extended to take your bookmaking design skills to a far higher level of creative profficiency It is particularly useful for This class is ideally suited for beginners wanting to create beautiful-looking photo books or The class is taught in an easy-to-understand format using basic techniques, and simple software to achieve professional results or Though initially targetting beginners, these resources can be easily extended to take your bookmaking design skills to a far higher level of creative profficiency.

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Summary

Title: Mastering the Art of Creative Photo Bookmaking

Price: $59.99

Average Rating: 4.55

Number of Lectures: 66

Number of Quizzes: 7

Number of Published Lectures: 66

Number of Published Quizzes: 7

Number of Curriculum Items: 73

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 73

Original Price: $34.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

Create impressive digital photo books using a range of simple-to-follow design, layout, retouching and editing processes
Be able to choose the most suitable bookmaking software for any project
Understand how to best use different fonts, font styles and font families
Enhance your front covers using drop shadows and (free) custom fonts
Understand the differences between book themes, styles and paper options
Get to know the basics of colour calibration
Learn how relatively easy it is to use affordable editing software
Master basic photo editing techniques to achieve picture pefection

Who Should Attend

This class is ideally suited for beginners wanting to create beautiful-looking photo books
The class is taught in an easy-to-understand format using basic techniques, and simple software to achieve professional results
Though initially targetting beginners, these resources can be easily extended to take your bookmaking design skills to a far higher level of creative profficiency

Target Audiences

This class is ideally suited for beginners wanting to create beautiful-looking photo books
The class is taught in an easy-to-understand format using basic techniques, and simple software to achieve professional results
Though initially targetting beginners, these resources can be easily extended to take your bookmaking design skills to a far higher level of creative profficiency

A digital picture book is one of the best ways to profile your fabulous photographic hobby. This course highlights, in easily achievable steps, how to get the best possible [printed] results with standard bookmaking software specifically with: simple photo editing techniques, good design and page layout ideas, plus creative use of fonts, text and picture effects.
In fact, everything you need to produce a professional-looking coffee table book worthy of any notable photographer.
Mastering the Art of Creative Photo Bookmaking comprises more than five hours of easy-to-follow instructional videos, plus a mix of information-rich documents and quizzes.
Everything you need to make impressive-looking photo books that will be the envy of your family, friends and colleagues…

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Photo Bookmaking Software: Where to Start

Lecture 1: An Introduction to Bookmaking

Chapter 2: Setting Up the Basics

Lecture 1: Online Bookmaking Software Options

Lecture 2: Downloadable Bookmaking Software Options

Lecture 3: Photo Bookmaking Software: Where to Start

Lecture 4: Book Publishing Terminology

Lecture 5: Looking at Bookmaking Themes

Lecture 6: Choosing the Right Paper Quality

Lecture 7: Safety First: Understanding Trim and Bleed Lines

Lecture 8: Getting Started with Blurb's Booksmart Software

Lecture 9: Introduction to Blurb BookWright

Lecture 10: Designing the Front Cover Art

Lecture 11: Breaking the Text Rules: Creating WOW! Contents Pages

Lecture 12: Creating the Contents Page

Lecture 13: Adding Keylines and Borders

Lecture 14: Design Ideas (part 1)

Lecture 15: Design Ideas (part 2)

Lecture 16: Design Ideas (part 3)

Lecture 17: Book Design Ideas part 4

Lecture 18: Thoughts on Design Consistency

Lecture 19: Book Embellishments

Lecture 20: Working with Different Page Colours

Chapter 3: Retouching: Making Your Images 'Pop'

Lecture 1: Quick and Effective Editing with Auto correction and Levels

Lecture 2: Colour Enhancements with the Hue/Saturation Tool

Lecture 3: Basic Introduction to the Power of Raw Files

Lecture 4: Picture Editing Basics

Lecture 5: Retouching with the Clone Stamp and Healing Brushes

Lecture 6: Getting Ready to Print – Using the Unsharp Mask Feature

Lecture 7: Making a Panorama for Maximum Picture Impact

Chapter 4: Advanced Page Creation Techniques

Lecture 1: Creating Custom Templates

Lecture 2: Designing with Big Pictures

Lecture 3: Working with Background Transparency

Lecture 4: Working with PNG Files: Background Transparency

Lecture 5: Working with PNG Files: Advanced Techniques

Lecture 6: Working with Graphics and Transformations

Lecture 7: Transformations and Maps

Chapter 5: Getting Creative with the Text Tools

Lecture 1: Understanding Font Families

Lecture 2: Text Basics

Lecture 3: Setting Up Text Styles

Lecture 4: Getting Creative with Custom Fonts

Chapter 6: Creating Special Custom Pages

Lecture 1: Using Black-and-White

Lecture 2: Flipping Images for a Special Effect

Lecture 3: Flipping Your Pictures for a Dynamic Design

Lecture 4: Making a Tonally Graduated Double Page Spread

Lecture 5: Making Graduated Pages for Section or Chapter Headers

Chapter 7: Advanced Bookmaking Techniques

Lecture 1: Cropping Photos to Specific Page Sizes

Lecture 2: How to Create Custom Backgrounds

Lecture 3: Basic Masks for Individual Page Design

Lecture 4: Advanced Page Design

Chapter 8: Bookmaking with Blurb BookWright

Lecture 1: BookWright Introduction and Setup

Lecture 2: BookWright: Downloadable Themes

Lecture 3: BookWright: Importing your photos

Lecture 4: BookWright: Using the Ruler Guides

Lecture 5: BookWright Check the Warnings

Lecture 6: BookWright: Copying and Pasting Text

Lecture 7: BookWright: Setting page colour

Lecture 8: BookWright: Customising a Template

Lecture 9: BookWright: Using Panoramas

Lecture 10: BookWright: Checking the Trim Guidlines

Lecture 11: BookWright: Aligning Text

Lecture 12: BookWright: Exporting a PDF for Final Checking

Chapter 9: Troubleshooting – What can go wrong

Lecture 1: Increasing Image Size: Resampling

Lecture 2: Colour Calibration Basics

Chapter 10: Finishing Touches

Lecture 1: Adding Page Numbers

Lecture 2: Finalising the Book

Chapter 11: Additional Resources

Lecture 1: Making a Book with Adobe Lightroom

Lecture 2: Making a Book with Apple Photos

Instructors

Robin Nichols
Freelance Writer and Lecturer at Sydney University

Rating Distribution

1 stars: 2 votes
2 stars: 1 votes
3 stars: 7 votes
4 stars: 24 votes
5 stars: 37 votes

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