InDesign CC: Book Production, Putting the book together

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Assembling the pieces of the book

Lecture 1: A welcome plus making a place to store everything

Lecture 2: A public domain book: learning the workspace

Lecture 3: Book One: Examining the template

Lecture 4: Examining downloaded folder content

Lecture 5: How to quickly rough format a document

Lecture 6: Formatting the locally formatted copy

Lecture 7: Cleaning up widows, orphans, and runts

Lecture 8: Finishing your first book

Lecture 9: Working fully formatted

Chapter 2: Adding the content

Lecture 1: Setting up InDesign to work for you

Lecture 2: Setting up a new book file

Lecture 3: Bringing in a word processing file

Chapter 3: Dealing with the graphics

Lecture 1: A quick and grungy look at some graphics

Lecture 2: Vector and bitmap graphics how they're used

Lecture 3: Playing with a vector lizard

Lecture 4: Why we draw in InDesign

Lecture 5: Dealing with Office graphics & InDesign's tools

Lecture 6: Getting Started with the pen tool

Lecture 7: FrameTools and the Pencil

Lecture 8: Combining paths: Grouping, Compound, and Pathfinder

Lecture 9: A combining paths demo showing some of the difficulties

Lecture 10: Managing your JPEGs & their artifacts

Lecture 11: Graphic formats used for print and ebooks

Lecture 12: The Links and Swatches panels are very powerful

Lecture 13: Copy/Paste from Illustrator & our first look at anchored objects

Lecture 14: Learning the Anchored Object dialog box

Lecture 15: Dealing with anchored objects: frames and content

Chapter 4: Formatting the book

Lecture 1: A look at the styles you use: Body Copy

Lecture 2: Paragraph styles you use: lists, heads, subheads, pull quotes and sidebars

Lecture 3: Formatting front to back

Lecture 4: Checking out the resources of your new book

Lecture 5: Some possible solutions as you format your assignment

Lecture 6: Designing tables

Chapter 5: Adding front & back matter

Lecture 1: Discussing front and back matter for a book

Lecture 2: Adding the front matter section to the Letterpress book

Lecture 3: Producing a Table of Contents

Lecture 4: Producing an Index

Lecture 5: Adding footnotes

Lecture 6: Formatting concepts, tips, and norms

Chapter 6: Designing a cover

Lecture 1: Some cover design issues and concepts

Lecture 2: Setting up for a quick cover tutorial

Lecture 3: Building your cover image using Effects and Modes

Lecture 4: Finishing off a couple of covers

Chapter 7: Versioning: producing the various distributed versions

Lecture 1: The different requirements for the various formats

Lecture 2: Public Domain project: exporting the PDFs

Lecture 3: Designing ePUBs and using hyperlinks

Lecture 4: Beginning to design your ePUBs

Lecture 5: Design issues with graphics and fonts

Lecture 6: Other ePUB design issues you need to check

Lecture 7: Demoing an ePUB FXL: Part 1

Lecture 8: Part 2 of the FXL demo

Lecture 9: Converting the book for Reflow

Lecture 10: Exporting your new ePUB Reflow

Lecture 11: Producing and exporting a book which will work for Kindle

Lecture 12: Using Adobe's Publish Online

Chapter 8: Marketing & Distribution choices

Lecture 1: Uploading your Createspace book

Lecture 2: Dealing with the distributors and aggregators

Lecture 3: What do you mean I have to market my books?!

Lecture 4: Some closing thoughts