IntroductionWelcome| 00:00 |
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In my experience, photographers are
always looking for new ways to share
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their work, and generate new revenue
streams.
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With the explosions of ereaders such as
the iPad, Nook, Kindle, and the Sony
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e-reader, a new publishing platform has
emerged.
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Now, pro photographers can publish their
own photographic ePub books, and share in
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an ever-growing revenue stream.
In this workshop, I'll take you step by
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step through the process of selecting,
organizing, and processing your images
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with ePub books in mind.
Then I'll show you how to layout and
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design your book and prepare it for the
appropriate ebook format.
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Finally, I'll show you how to set up a
publishing relationship with Amazon,
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Barnes and Noble, Google Books, and Apple
Books, to distribute and sell your
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finished product.
I'll use one of my own traditional books,
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County Fair Portraits, published in 1981,
as a real world case study for this course.
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At he end of the course it's my hope that
you too will be able to re-purpose or
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create from scratch material that will
give you both aesthetic satisfaction and income.
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1. Introduction to Ebook Creation and Publishing for PhotographersWhat is an ebook?| 00:02 |
What is ePub?
ePub is electronic version of a publication.
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It's optimized for screen viewing and
sharing over commercial outlets, like
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Amazon and Barnes and Noble.
At this time, it is not optimized for design.
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An epub title will look one way on one
device and another way on another device.
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Users can control not only the size of
the font but the font style itself.
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In many ways it is a designer's
nightmare.
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With all its limitations it's like being
back in the early days of the web when
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all we had was html.
Having said this, ePub is very flexible.
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Images and text are re-sized
automatically to fit he space available
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on the display device.
A photo will display at one resolution
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and one size on say, an iPad, and re-size
automatically to fit a small iPhone.
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Text will also reflow relatively, so ePub
is limited in some ways, flexible in
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others, and ultimately its great because
its easy to create and easy to solve.
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Get this, Amazon just a know for the
first time ePub books are outselling all
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their print books combined.
As a freelance photographer I'm always
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looking for new revenue streams.
For many years I've posted my images on
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the web and shared my work for free.
My traditional books were a large part of
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my income.
Well, times have changed and now it's
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possible to repackage my old book
material, whose rights have reverted back
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to me from the publisher, and offer the
material for a price on various
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distribution channels, such as Amazon or
Barnes and Noble.
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Once I learned how easy it was to create
e pub books I wanted to share what I've
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learned what my fellow photographers so
they to can benefit from the exciting
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possibilities of e pub creation and
distribution.
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I hop at the end of this workshop you'll
not only be able to create your own e pub
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books but you'll make some money selling
them as well.
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| Applications and content used in this workshop| 00:00 |
In this video, I'll go over the tools and
content I'll be using in this workshop.
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First, the content.
Many years ago, in 1981, my book, County
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Fair Portraits, was published.
I was very satisfied with the work, but
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it's long out of print and the rights
have reverted back to me.
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Recently, I was approached by a curator
to create a special limited edition of 25
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original prints from the book.
I wanted to create a catalog of the portfolio.
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And for that, I naturally turned to the
e-pub format, so I could easily
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distribute and even sell the catalog.
So for this workshop I'll be using the
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orignial material from that Epub book,
you'll find the actual images and content
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in the resource file, feel free to use
the material for personal use but it's
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copyrighted and you're not allowed to
distribute the material in any other
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shape or form.
And the tools.
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I'll primarily use Photoshop and Bridge
for image preparation.
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And Indesign 5.5 to actually create the
document, and then convert it to the
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e-pub format.
Most version of Photoshop within reason
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are okay but I highly recommend using
indesign five point five which is
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available as a standalone or part of the
creative suite package you can also
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download it and use it for free for
thirty days from the Adobe site, I'm also
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going to use Adobe digital additions.
Let me show you how I get to that.
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I have to export my file to open that up.
And make sure this is checked.
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You E-pub after exporting.
So I use this.
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It's a free E book reader from Adobe.
And I also use the Amazon Kindle
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previewer which is shown here, to preview
my document.
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So again, we have PhotoShop, Bridge and
InDesign 5.5.
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Hopefully that's the highly recommended
version of InDesign that you should be using.
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And there you have it.
With these tools, you are on your way to
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creating and publishing an ePub book.
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| The process in a nutshell, from start to finish| 00:00 |
In this video, I'll summarize the process
that we're going to follow in order to
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create a PhotoCentric ePub book.
We're going to start here in Bridge.
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We're going to learn how to apply
important metadata to our images.
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Then we're going to come over to
Photoshop where we'll clean up the images.
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We're going to optimize the tonal values.
We're going to crop, resize and save the
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images for ePub.
We're also going to learn how to add
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watermarks to our images to maintain
image integrity.
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We're going to learn how to prepare an
ePub cover in Photoshop.
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We're going to learn how to create a
transparent PNG graphic for use on our
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title page.
And then once we're done in Photoshop,
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we're going to move over to InDesign.
This is InDesign 5.5, where we'll start
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by learning how to create a new document
specifically for ePub.
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And after we've done that, we're going to
learn how to place the cover image, and
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then we're going to learn how to add
other content, text, graphics, and create
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the various character styles and
paragraph styles that you need to have in InDesign.
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And we'll also learn how to add
hyperlinks.
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We'll learn how to create a table of
content, and how to add IPTC metadata to
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our InDesign document.
After that, we will learn how to export
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our InDesign document using the Epub
expert options, very, very important part
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of the process here, getting these
options just right so that our document
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exports properly for the ePub format.
And then finally, we're going to learn
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about various preview options that we
have, how can we see our document when
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we're done with it.
We're going to use Adobe Digital
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Editions, which is a free download from
Adobe.
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And we're also going to use the Amazon
Kindle previewer, which once again, is a
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free download but from Amazon.
So, at the end of this process, you will
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have an ePub document, ready to be placed
on Amazon or Barnes & Noble, or Apple iBooks.
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And not only will you have the
satisfaction of sharing your work, but
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hopefully, you'll actually even make some
money at it.
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2. Preparing Images with the EPUB Format in MindAdding important metadata in Bridge| 00:02 |
In this video, I'll show you how I use
Adobe Bridge to create a metadata
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template that I can easily apply to
multiple images.
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So I'm in Bridge, and if you look under
Window > Workspace, you can see I've
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selected the Essentials workspace.
And that brings up the meta data panel
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you see over here on the right.
Under file properties, this is
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information that's brought in along with
the file.
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And if I had been using a digital camera,
which I wasn't back in the 1970s when I
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made these photographs, it would've
brought in XF data from the camera like
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shutter speed and x stop.
But in any case thees are scanned images,
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so the information is applied
automatically under file properties.
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So all this information is applied
automatically and there is nothing for me
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to do here.
So here's where I can add information
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under the itpc core.
And if I want to, you can see that
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nothing's been filled in here with this
particular image that's selected.
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I can select each field and type in the
information here.
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And then when I've done that, and I'm
ready to apply it I just select this
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little apply button down here on the
bottom.
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But obviously that's pretty tedious and
time consuming, and since most of these,
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or all these images, require the same
information attached to them I'm going to
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create a metadata template instead and
apply it to multiple images.
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So in order to do that I'll click on this
little triangle here.
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And I'll create a metadata template.
And I'll start off with the creator
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field, that's my name.
And my title, photographer, and author.
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And I can type in the address.
Let me go ahead and I'll do a little bit here.
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I'm not going to do all of it.
Street.
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San Francisco.
California.
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You're getting the idea how this works.
Each time I type in something the little
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check mark appears here by the field.
The very important thing to much sure you
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get in here is the email address
obviously so someone can contact you if
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they come across your image and your
website.
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Let's get that in there.
And just as important down here copyright status.
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Definitely copyright it.
And I always say all rights reserved.
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And okay.
I need to give this template a name.
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I'm going to call it, let's see, Olin.
No, let's just call it country fair
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portraits, let's say book.
because it's specific to this book.
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And I'll select save.
All right.
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Now, the next thing I need to do in
bridge is make multiple selections, and
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I'm not going to select all the files in
this folder because there's graphics and
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they're not just only photographs.
Normally I have a folder full of
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photographs and I would apply to all the
images in that folder, but here I'll just
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make a selection.
Hold down the shift key so now all these
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images are selected Go back over here to
this little triangle.
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I'm going to replace the metadata with
the county fair portraits book metadata.
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Select that.
Now, it's going to automatically apply
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that information that I just typed in,
you can see here, it's applied.
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Now I can deselect all of them, and I'll
just select one image.
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And you can see that image has that
information attached to it.
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So I've shown you how to do this, and now
I'm going to give you some bad news.
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Although you may have applied this meta
data to your images, and brought those
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images into indesign, once indesign 5.5
exports these images to the epub format,
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it actually strips this meta data.
Away, so it's gone.
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So you may ask yourself, you know, what's
the point of putting this in if it's
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going to be ultimately stripped away.
Well, in any case, it's always a good
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idea to attach metadata to your image
files.
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It identifies you as the creator and
gives it contact information, etc.
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Maintains the integrity of the images if
they end up out of your control.
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There are many reasons for adding this
important, very important, meta data
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information to your images.
And it should just be a kind of a no
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brainer part of your workflow.
And that's how you do it in a Adobe Bbridge.
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| Cleaning up the images in Photoshop| 00:00 |
In this video I'll show you how I've used
Photoshop to clean up or prepare my
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images for the ePub publication.
Select mini bridge.
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Navigate to one of the images.
I'll double-click on this one.
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Open it up in Photoshop and resize that
window, close Minibridge.
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I'm going to open up the navigator, I
find this useful to enlarge the image and
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yet at the same time see where I am
within the image because sometimes when
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I'm doing this kind of work I'm going to
pretty great magnification levels and I
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kind of lose where I am.
This way I can always have a reference.
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And I can click and drag the red box
around to get where I want.
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So I can just use the spacebar as well,
and click and drag around the image that way.
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Okay, you can see there's a lot of
problems with this image.
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This was shot 30 years, more than 30
years ago on film.
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And the film has deteroirated a bit, so
we got some work ahead of us.
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The tool of choice is the healing brush
found over here in the toolbar, and
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before I start using the healing brush
I'm going to create a new layer over here
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int he layer pallette, and I can name
that layer.
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And in this case, I'll just name it the
retouch.
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All right.
And the important thing here is to select
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a layer and make sure that sample all
layers is checked, otherwise, the healing
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brush won't work as it should.
And now I'm going to place the healing
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brush over one of the spots.
The brush, in this case, is about the
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right size, I can adjust it pretty
easily.
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With the right bracket enlarges it and
the left bracket key reduces and I'll
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click there and I'm just going to move
around I have a lot of work ahead of me
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here I'm just placing the cursor right
over the spot and clicking and they're
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going away, it's an amazing tool.
This has an amazing amount of spots on
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it, so we're going to be here for awhile
working away.
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some spots like this one, not only do I
just place by brush over the spot and
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click, but in these kinds of scartches I
just click and drag like that.
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And I think that works pretty well for
that kind of scratch.
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Most of the time it's much better to
place it right over the spot and click.
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I'm using my spacebar now, and moving
around and taking a look at some of the
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bigger problems up here.
I'm going to click.
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Now let me come over here and show you
why I like working with the extra layer.
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If I turn that visability on and off you
can see.
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The effect of the healing brush there.
But let's just say I want to come back
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now and I didn't like what the brush has,
had done there.
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all I have to do is take the eraser tool
and I can come in and erase the work of
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the healing brush on that layer.
So it's a good, it's kind of a
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non-destructive way of working with the
healing brush.
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And we select the healing brush again,
that healing brush is my friend, and click.
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I'm going to work my way through this
picture.
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It's going to take awhile.
Let's see.
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There's another spot.
This is where you get some good music
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going and you relax, and it can actually
be quite meditative to go through an duse
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the healing brush on images like this.
And this is the main tool I'm going to
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use to prepare this image.
I'm using the navigator to kind of go in
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and out, and see how it looks, and orient
myself to where I'm working.
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So, I just want to say one last thing
about using the healing brush, and the
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work I'm doing on these images.
If these were going to print to a very
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high resolution printer.
I would be much more careful about what
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I'm doing.
Because, obviously, the flaws would be
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more obvious.
This is going to a smaller display device.
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I'm not going to be so absolutely precise
on it.
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Of course, you know?
Some of these devices.
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And as they get better and better.
This is going to be something to take
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into consideration.
That you're going to get incredible.
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Display capabilities, and so it will make
a difference on how much time you spend
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on these images to get them just right.
But this is what I'm doing for these
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particular images to get them ready for
the county fair epub book.
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| Optimizing tonal values in Photoshop| 00:00 |
In this video, I'll show you what I've
done to optimize the tonal values of my images.
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I'm in Photoshop, I'm working with black
and white images, yet I'm still in the
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RGB color space and eight bits per
channel.
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And the other thing is because obviously
many of you will be working with color
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The color settings found here under edit,
color settings, I suggest that you work
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in the SRGB color space.
That's the color space that's most
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friendly for display devices.
It's a, more of a smaller color gamut but
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if you work in that space you have a
better chance of your colors being
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reproduced more accurately.
So, we're back here with our black and
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white image, and I'm going to walk you
thorugh the various steps that I go
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through to get this right.
You can see that the healing brush layer
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still exists here.
I did that earlier, just spotting the
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print, basicaly.
So, now I'm going to apply a, an
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adjustment layer, levels.
Now, I tend to work non-destructively, so
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what you're going to see me doing, it
might seem a little bit strange, just
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because I like the idea that I can go
back at any time and change the values of
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my settings, so.
Everything you see here is fairly non-destructive.
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So I'm going to choose a levels
adjustment layer.
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And let me go ahead and work right off
level.
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So, I'm going to darken, bring the
shadows over a little bit, maybe
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highlights over.
Oop, no, this, this, gotta be careful here.
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There, get that just about right, and
work on my midtones a bit.
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So levels is pretty simple, I, I'm not
going to work with curves, which is a
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little more complex.
But levels is going to get me right about
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where I want it, right there.
Go back.
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Now you can see with the, the levels
uh,UNKNOWN layer, I can go back and
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change that any time by just double
clicking on that there.
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What I mean by being non-destructive.
OK, the next thing I'm going to do is I
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want to convert this background into just
a normal layer so I'll double-click on
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that and just go layer of zero because I
want to convert this layer into a smart layer.
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In order to do that, I go layers, smart
objects, convert to smart object.
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And this again will let me do the next
step that I want to do, non-destructively.
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I'm going to apply a, a filter.
This is something, it's an old trick me
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using the unchart mask to boost the
mid-tone contrast.
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So these are the settings that work
really well for boosting just the midtone contrast.
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You can see as I click on this preview
window and release the mouse, you can see
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the before and my after.
These are ballpark settings, but they
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work pretty well.
The mount at 20, the radius at 50 and the
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threshold at zero.
And in general, if you apply those
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settings to your image you're going to
get this nice boost and mid-tone contrast
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without affecting the highlights of the
shadow.
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So I'm going to just go ahead and do
that, and because I've done this on a
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smart layer, everything is completely
nondestructive.
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I can go back at any point and change
those settings if I want.
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Okay, so I've got that image in good
shape.
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Let's do one more real quickly.
I do the same thing with this image.
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Let's make a levels adjustment layer, and
I"m just going to work on the, opening up
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the mid tones a little bit.
I think my highlights and my shadows are good.
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And let's get that just about there.
Looks good.
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And do the same thing that we did
earlier, turn our background into a
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layer, convert that into a smart layer,
convert to smart object.
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And then apply the unchart mask, those
settings should stick that I had earlier.
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Now Let me open it, get the preview
window here.
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Reduce it a little bit so you can see
better what's going on.
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Click.
Click.
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So you get a nice boost, just in the
mid-tones there.
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Okay.
Select Okay.
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So now I have two of these images.
I have about 23 more to go.
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But I'll go through these pretty quickly.
As you can see my method is pretty straight-forward.
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And once again I'm going to emphasize by
the method that I used with the smart
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layer and the adjustment layers, I can go
back at any time and tweak it or adjust it.
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So there you go.
That's how I go the tonal values ready
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for my ePub document.
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| Cropping, resizing, and saving images for EPUB| 00:02 |
In this video I'll show you how I've
cropped, re-sized and saved my images in
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preparation for my epub document.
So I'm going to start by cropping my
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images, I'll select the crop to over here
on the Toolbar and up here under the
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Width, I'm going to start off with 768
because I'm going to crop this right to
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the exact size of the iPad which is the
size I've set up my ePub document in InDesign.
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So 768 pixels, px, that's very important,
type that in, and then our height is 1024 pixels.
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PX.
And the resolution is 150.
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These are all settings I've created
already in my ePub doc in InDesign.
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And I'm going to match those here when I
do my cropping and resizing in Photoshop.
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So now, with those set, all I have to do
is click on the image and drag.
| | 01:00 |
And I have now the exact portions.
And I just need to click and drag that
| | 01:08 |
box around.
I can grab the edges and change the size,
| | 01:11 |
but it's holding the same aspect ratio
though, so I don't have to worry about that.
| | 01:17 |
And I must move it around to get the crop
just right.
| | 01:20 |
And as soon as I get that, all I have to
do is either hit the Return key or come
| | 01:24 |
over here and select the Commit button,
which I'll do right now.
| | 01:31 |
So now my crop is done, and the next
thing I need to do is save the image.
| | 01:37 |
So I'm going to save this in the TIFF
file format And I know I've said that the
| | 01:41 |
ePub support JPEG, GIF and PNG, and not
TIFF, but in fact the TIFF is going to go
| | 01:46 |
into the end design document, and then
from there in the conversion, in the
| | 01:51 |
export to the ePub format, if you will...
The JPEG conversion will take place.
| | 02:00 |
In other words, I don't want a JPEG, a
JPEG.
| | 02:02 |
And that would be what I'd be doing if I
saved this out as a JPEG, and brought
| | 02:06 |
that into Indesign.
Most of you probably know this already,
| | 02:09 |
how JPEG works.
It's a, lossy compression scheme.
| | 02:13 |
So, if I'm already throwing away data
once, and then applying JPEG compression
| | 02:17 |
again to another JPEG, it's going to
throw away even more data.
| | 02:21 |
So I want to save this as a TIF.
So I'll say file, save as, because I
| | 02:24 |
want to keep all my layers intact over
here in the original and I'll go ahead
| | 02:28 |
and I can give this either a different
name or I can put it into a different folder.
| | 02:35 |
I don't want the, the layer, so I'm just
going to save this as a copy.
| | 02:40 |
Select, deselect layers.
I do want the SRGB color space embedded,
| | 02:44 |
even though it's not that critical for
the gray-scale images.
| | 02:48 |
And when I'm done, all I have to do is
hit save.
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OK?
And then, as far as the default options
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go, you can just leave these with the
standard settings.
| | 02:59 |
You don't really need to add any
compression at this point or change anything.
| | 03:04 |
And just select OK and now this picture
is ready.
| | 03:07 |
It's cropped, well lets backtrack.
This picture is really ready.
| | 03:11 |
It's been spotted with the healing brush,
tonal values have been adjusted and
| | 03:16 |
optimized and its been cropped and sized
and saved in the TIF format.
| | 03:23 |
This picture is now ready to go into the
end design document.
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I just have 24 more to goLAUGH.
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| Watermarks to metadata: Maintaining image integrity| 00:02 |
In this video I'll show you a couple ways
to protect the integrity of your images.
| | 00:06 |
And help keep them from being ripped off.
At this time, epub devices display
| | 00:11 |
limited resolution.
The Amazon Kindle, for example, has a 64
| | 00:15 |
kilobite limit on the size of graphics
used.
| | 00:19 |
In the future however high resolution
devices will likely be the norm and there
| | 00:23 |
will always be those who take advantage
of harvesting professional images from an
| | 00:27 |
epub book.
Well, what to do?
| | 00:32 |
A standard means of protection is
embedding metadata into an image that
| | 00:35 |
clearly states copyright and ownership.
So what happens to this metadata when
| | 00:41 |
it's processed through Adobe InDesign
5.5?
| | 00:44 |
Let's see, so I'm going select this
graphic here in my document, under file,
| | 00:48 |
file info, now look here under the IPTC
tab, you can see all this information
| | 00:53 |
that I put in earlier in bridge.
It exists there.
| | 01:00 |
Just, it sits with that file.
It is contained within that image file.
| | 01:06 |
So far so good.
Now, let's see what happens when I export
| | 01:10 |
this file.
Export, Export to epub.
| | 01:13 |
Put it into the county fair assets
folder.
| | 01:16 |
File save.
I'll place that original file and I'm
| | 01:20 |
going to say here, include document meta
data.
| | 01:25 |
This is not to be confused with image
meta data as you're going to see shortly.
| | 01:29 |
And now I'll select OK and InDesign is
generating the epub document.
| | 01:35 |
It opens automatically in Adobe Digital
Additions.
| | 01:38 |
Everything so far, so good.
Yeah, but, what about the information
| | 01:42 |
that I attach to that image?
What happens to it?
| | 01:46 |
All right so you're going to have to bear
with me a little bit.
| | 01:51 |
We're going to do some hacking here.
So I'm going to go to my folder, let's go
| | 01:56 |
here into the assets folder, there,
there's the e pub document that was just
| | 02:00 |
created by end design.
Bear with me again, we're going to hack
| | 02:05 |
this thing.
We're going to open it up and see what's
| | 02:08 |
inside of it.
In order to do that, we're going to have
| | 02:10 |
to do a couple things.
I'm going to right-click and I'm going to
| | 02:14 |
duplicate it first of all.
Now I have a duplicate, I don't want to
| | 02:17 |
mess with the original, have a copy.
So, I'm going to select this.
| | 02:21 |
I'm going to change the extension, let's
get rid of the word copy here.
| | 02:24 |
Now that.
And then we'll change the extension from
| | 02:29 |
ePub to zip.
All right now it's going to ask me do I
| | 02:33 |
really want to do that?
Yes I really do, thank you very much.
| | 02:38 |
Okay, so now it has a zip extension on
it.
| | 02:41 |
If I right-click on it now, and open
with, and I have StuffIt Expander loaded.
| | 02:46 |
So, this is required for this hack to
work.
| | 02:51 |
So I'm going to use Stuffit Expander,
which is a free download from the website.
| | 02:54 |
And I'm going to unstuff it.
And now I have a folder.
| | 02:58 |
Ooh, what's in this folder?
Interesting, huh?
| | 03:02 |
All right.
So you can see this.
| | 03:04 |
Let me double-click on it, so you can see
it better.
| | 03:07 |
This is what is contained in that epub
package.
| | 03:10 |
A epub is not really a format, per se,
it's really a packaging of information.
| | 03:15 |
Let's open this up.
And you can see, that's the XML files and
| | 03:18 |
if we double-click on this, we have all
kinds of files, we have HTML files But
| | 03:22 |
this is the file that I'm interested in
here, the Images file.
| | 03:29 |
I want to see what happened to my JPEG
that was generated on the export from InDesign.
| | 03:36 |
Let's open that in Photoshop.
Photoshop, and take a look at it, because
| | 03:42 |
that's a good way to check out what has
happened to the IBTC data.
| | 03:48 |
Under File And then we want to find file
info, and there we go.
| | 03:54 |
Nothing.
It's all been stripped away.
| | 03:58 |
All right, well, first of all you an see
someone who is determined can hack into
| | 04:03 |
your ePub file.
That's one thing.
| | 04:06 |
So those photographs that sit in that
folder can be grabbed.
| | 04:09 |
And you know, there we go, there's no
copyrighted information attached to it
| | 04:14 |
anymore, it just exist in the world with
out any data attached.
| | 04:19 |
Okay, what do we do now?
Well, there's a couple ways to go, if you
| | 04:24 |
really are concerned about it, you see
here this folder that contained all the images.
| | 04:30 |
Those images can be swapped out.
You can come into this folder and replace
| | 04:36 |
these images that have no xf data, no
iptc data with files that now this is the
| | 04:41 |
important thing they have to have the
same resolution, exactly the same file name.
| | 04:50 |
You can go in, swap them out, and then
you will be able to maintain all that
| | 04:54 |
information in the metadata.
Okay, it's a little bit tedious.
| | 04:59 |
It is a workaround, it is something you
might consider.
| | 05:03 |
Another way to go about maintaining
integrity in your image is to simply just
| | 05:07 |
add a watermark.
And there are a lot of ways to add a watermark.
| | 05:13 |
Let me just go ahead and show you one
very simple way that I would consider
| | 05:17 |
doing with this image.
This is the ping, graphic that I created
| | 05:22 |
earlier with a transparent background.
I could very well easily just grab that
| | 05:27 |
ping, graphic, put it into my image,
Resize it, obviously, it's a little too big.
| | 05:33 |
Let's drop it down in size.
And because it's transparent, I can put
| | 05:37 |
it anywhere onto the image and you know,
it's transparent.
| | 05:41 |
Let's see how that works.
And then, under the, over here, after
| | 05:45 |
I've committed it I can go to the layer
and just bring the opacity down so that
| | 05:49 |
it's just a faint, let's see.
You can see, acts more like a watermark
| | 05:55 |
in the background.
Okay.
| | 05:57 |
So I can go through in, individually to
all the images and do that either with a
| | 06:01 |
graphic, with a transparent background or
I can just type my name in it using the
| | 06:05 |
photoshop type tool.
And position it some place where it
| | 06:11 |
becomes a watermark.
There's also a cool extension called
| | 06:16 |
Adobe watermark that Russell Brown offers
for free on the Adobe site that he's
| | 06:21 |
created that will autmatically either
place a watermark graphic into your images.
| | 06:29 |
Or, you can just type it in if you want,
type in the text.
| | 06:32 |
It'll batch apply the watermark to
multiple images in the folder.
| | 06:37 |
Only downside to this, which, it's a
really cool, it's free, you can just go
| | 06:41 |
get it from the Adobe site.
It's really cool, but it only creates the jpegs.
| | 06:46 |
Which is fine if that's what you want.
If you want tiff's as a result you can't
| | 06:50 |
save it as a tiff.
Now the last way I'm going to suggest for
| | 06:54 |
making the watermark is just through
Lightroom, Adobe Lightroom.
| | 06:58 |
That's another application I'm trying to
stay within the Photoshop bridge in
| | 07:03 |
design world here.
It's very easy to create watermarks in
| | 07:06 |
Adobe Lightroom.
I'm sure in the future there will volve
| | 07:10 |
other ways to protect the integrity of
your images.
| | 07:13 |
These are just some suggestions that can
be implemented right now.
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| Preparing an ebook cover| 00:00 |
In this video, I'll show you what I did
to prepare the cover for my ePub book.
| | 00:06 |
I'm in Photoshop.
I'm going to go to Mini Bridge.
| | 00:09 |
I've got that over here open.
If you haven't opened it, you can open it
| | 00:13 |
from up here.
I'll go ahead and click on that.
| | 00:17 |
And let me navigate to the book cover,
which is in the PDF format.
| | 00:21 |
I'm going to double-click on it.
The book cover is one of the most
| | 00:25 |
important elements in an ePub book.
It's so important, you might consider
| | 00:30 |
having a professional designer make it
for you, as I have done.
| | 00:34 |
This cover was done by Bruce Yelaska from
San Francisco, and he gave it to me in
| | 00:39 |
the format I asked him to, which was 8 by
10.
| | 00:44 |
That aspect ratio's not going to work for
the 768 by 1024 size that I actually want.
| | 00:51 |
So, I'm going to have to customize this a
little bit.
| | 00:55 |
So, I'm going to flatten the image.
So, now that creates a background image.
| | 01:00 |
I want to then, make sure that the black
that Bruce put on the edge now is my
| | 01:04 |
background color.
So, I'll just place my eyedropper tool there.
| | 01:08 |
And it'll automatically select it in the
color picker as my background color.
| | 01:14 |
Select OK.
And then, what I'm going to do is Image,
| | 01:17 |
Canvas Size, because I want to increase
my canvas with the black, so I have some
| | 01:21 |
room to crop it to the proper proportion.
So, let me go ahead and make sure canvas
| | 01:27 |
extension color is background, let's give
it some couple inches on the width and a
| | 01:31 |
couple of inches on the height.
Actually, I'll make them the same.
| | 01:38 |
12 by 12.
All right.
| | 01:40 |
All I need is enough canvas to crop
properly.
| | 01:44 |
So, now the crop tool is selected and I
have already got the width correct, 768
| | 01:49 |
by 1024, height.
And this is very important, that it's a
| | 01:54 |
pixel measurement, not inches.
just type in px.
| | 01:58 |
Resolution 150, that's the resolution I
am going to set all my images to, so I
| | 02:03 |
can get the optimal resolution when
they're viewed on, let's say, an iPad.
| | 02:10 |
And now, I'll go ahead and click and drag
my crop tool.
| | 02:15 |
And you can see, I have enough room on
either side to get enough black everywhere.
| | 02:22 |
And I can position this around and make
it right.
| | 02:26 |
Let me shrink that up a bit.
Okay, so, I'm doing this by eyeball.
| | 02:31 |
But you get the idea.
I'll give it a little more on the top here.
| | 02:36 |
So now, when I select Commit up here,
with this check, it'll crop it to the
| | 02:42 |
aspect ratio 768 by 1024.
And actually, it track down which is
| | 02:48 |
something I was going to suggest you do
anyway, because a lot of times these
| | 02:52 |
covers are going to be viewed on Amazon
or Barnes and Noble and they are going to
| | 02:55 |
be very small.
So, you better make sure that that cover
| | 02:59 |
looks good small.
In fact, I'm going to bring it down just
| | 03:02 |
a little big.
I'll, I'll shrink it down even a little
| | 03:05 |
bit more.
Let's go down to there.
| | 03:08 |
And you want to make sure that it's still
readable at that size.
| | 03:12 |
That's looking pretty good.
So, once I have the cover cropped to the
| | 03:17 |
right aspect ratio, right size.
and then, I'll just go ahead and save it.
| | 03:22 |
And I'm going to do Save As.
And this time, I'm going to select the
| | 03:28 |
tiff file format down here.
And see the srgb, this is black and
| | 03:33 |
white image.
Well, there's some color in the banner,
| | 03:36 |
but the srgb is going to be the color
space that I, I'm going to consistently use.
| | 03:42 |
srgb is the preferred color space for
display devices.
| | 03:46 |
And so, once I've got that all set I'll
go ahead and hit save.
| | 03:51 |
These are all fine.
It can leave them at their defaults.
| | 03:53 |
And then, OK.
So now, this cover has been taken from
| | 03:57 |
the PDF that Bruce sent me.
It's been customized, if you will, in Photoshop.
| | 04:04 |
Sized to the exact size that I'll
ultimately want it in the ePub doc and
| | 04:10 |
saved as a tif.
And now, it's ready to be placed in the
| | 04:17 |
ePub doc.
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| Preparing a PNG graphic for a title page| 00:00 |
EPUB document support three file formats,
JPEGs, GIFs and PNGs.
| | 00:06 |
In this video, I'll show you how I
prepared a title page graphic and used
| | 00:11 |
the PNG, or PNG format, which allows for
transparency.
| | 00:18 |
So I'm in Photoshop and in Mini Bridge,
when I double-click on my graphic here,
| | 00:22 |
which was provided to me by my cover
designer, Bruce Elaska.
| | 00:27 |
And once again, I can't overstate the
role good graphics play in producing a
| | 00:32 |
professional looking product.
All right.
| | 00:35 |
So, first thing I need to do is change
this from a Background layer just to a
| | 00:39 |
Normal layer.
I just double-click on that and selected OK.
| | 00:45 |
And now it's a layer where I can can go
into Select menu and choose Color Range.
| | 00:53 |
This is probably the easiest way to
select just the black type, and you can
| | 00:57 |
see, I have Quick Mask selected, and that
gives me a preview of my selection, and,
| | 01:02 |
that's looking pretty good.
I could adjust it a little bit.
| | 01:07 |
There's probably not much adjustment that
needs to be done here.
| | 01:10 |
It's a plain white background against
black type.
| | 01:13 |
So that should do it.
I'll hit OK.
| | 01:16 |
And now it's selected the white
background and all I have to do is hit
| | 01:21 |
the delete key and it will delete to the
transparency which is signified by the
| | 01:26 |
checkered background.
I'm going to use Cmd+Ctrl+D to deselect
| | 01:32 |
the selection so I can see it better.
So that looks good.
| | 01:37 |
I'm not going to size or, or, or do
anything to this image.
| | 01:41 |
It's good as it is.
The next step, the important step though,
| | 01:45 |
and really, the relevant step in this
whole video is the conversion to the, to
| | 01:50 |
the PNG or PNG format, which I'm going to
do right now.
| | 01:55 |
So select File, and I'll Save As.
And here, instead of a TIFF, which it
| | 02:00 |
came in as, I will select the PNG format.
So, that's about all I need to do.
| | 02:07 |
I have the extension PNG.
And I select Save.
| | 02:11 |
And it'll go back into my folder of
assets for the county fair book.
| | 02:17 |
Let's just leave it there.
None, interlace.
| | 02:21 |
And it's ready to be placed in my
InDesign document, with the transparency.
| | 02:27 |
It's the beauty of the the PNG format.
It'll maintain that transparency, so no
| | 02:32 |
matter what this type goes against in the
future, in terms of a background, that'll
| | 02:36 |
always be that black against whatever the
background color is.
| | 02:41 |
So it's that simple to prepare this
graphic in the PNG format, which is
| | 02:46 |
supported by the EPUB documents.
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|
3. Creating and Designing an Ebook in InDesignCreating a new document| 00:02 |
In this video, I'll show you how to
create a new document InDesign that's
| | 00:05 |
specifically set up for ePub work.
So, I'm going to select Create New Document.
| | 00:13 |
And here, under intent, I'm going to
select web.
| | 00:17 |
Now, you see what happens down here?
Immediately, this becomes pixels which is
| | 00:22 |
the measurement unit of the screen, and
number of pages, I'll put in 50.
| | 00:29 |
It doesn't really matter if you get this
one right because you can always add or
| | 00:33 |
delete pages later.
I'm going to make sure that phasing pages
| | 00:37 |
is deselected, because the way ePub
documents work, they flow continuously
| | 00:42 |
where phasing pages is not necessary.
I'm going to select Master Text Frame and
| | 00:49 |
I'll show you why I did that shortly.
Page Size, I'm going to select 1024 by 768.
| | 00:57 |
And the reason I'm doing that is that's
the size of the iPad, the original iPad.
| | 01:04 |
And the new iPad is actually double that
resolution, 2048 by 1536.
| | 01:11 |
But most of the devices, the ePub
devices, are going to be less than the
| | 01:16 |
1024 by 768.
For example, the Kindle, the effective
| | 01:21 |
dimensions on that is 550 by 450.
So, by going with the 1024 by 768, I've
| | 01:26 |
given myself a nice compromise and most
of the images that will appear will
| | 01:31 |
either be right on the money or, or
sampled down, but we won't use any, any
| | 01:36 |
quality there.
So, I'm going to go 1024 by 768.
| | 01:43 |
The orientation?
Here, I'll go Portrait Orientation.
| | 01:47 |
And columns of number and gutter and none
of this is relevant for ePub documents.
| | 01:52 |
So, we'll just not worry about that.
Now here, margins.
| | 01:56 |
The margins is going to refer to up here,
the Master Text Frame.
| | 01:59 |
This is going to set up a text frame
within my document that I'll apply my
| | 02:04 |
text to.
So, this is really not relevant to the
| | 02:08 |
ePub document that becomes exported.
But it will help me lay out my pages and
| | 02:13 |
give me a good visual markers to work
with.
| | 02:17 |
So, once I've got the, the settings, I
will, I'm going to save a preset because
| | 02:21 |
that, that way, next time I come to this
window, it'll be, everything will be
| | 02:25 |
ready for me.
And I'll just call it iPad ePub settings
| | 02:32 |
and hit OK.
And now, next time I select here,
| | 02:36 |
Document Presets, it'll be there waiting
for me.
| | 02:42 |
I'll select OK.
And you can see in the InDesign work
| | 02:46 |
area, we have our document.
And it does look a little bit like an iPad.
| | 02:52 |
And here's, here's what I meant by those
margins in the text window area.
| | 02:56 |
I can use this as a, as a reference.
This purple, bluish line in the middle of
| | 03:01 |
the, of the outer parameter of black
line.
| | 03:05 |
Over here, under Pages, you can see I
have my 50 pages all ready to go.
| | 03:11 |
And again, it's very simple to add or
delete pages.
| | 03:16 |
So, this 50 that I initially started with
is not critical.
| | 03:21 |
If I want to check on the specifications
of this document at any time, I can
| | 03:25 |
select file.
And then, Document setup, and there you go.
| | 03:31 |
There's all those numbers and settings
that we put in there before.
| | 03:36 |
cancel that.
And by way, I showed you one way to get
| | 03:39 |
to the Document window.
Another way is just under File, New, and
| | 03:44 |
then Document right there.
All right, you see it's very simple to
| | 03:49 |
setup a Document for the ePub format.
And from here, we're going to go ahead
| | 03:54 |
and place the pictures in the text and do
all the fun things.
| | 03:59 |
But you can see how simple it is to, at
least, get started with InDesign.
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| Placing the cover image| 00:00 |
In this video I'll show you how to add a
cover to your InDesign document and make
| | 00:04 |
sure it exports properly as an ePub
cover.
| | 00:09 |
So I'm going to use Mini Bridge to bring
my content in.
| | 00:13 |
If I click on this Bridge icon up here it
will open a bridge.
| | 00:17 |
If I hold down shift and click, it'll
open up mini bridge within the end design application.
| | 00:24 |
So I'm going to scroll down my content
'til I find my cover.
| | 00:29 |
Which should be down near the bottom
here.
| | 00:32 |
Book cover TIF.
this has been converted in the Photoshop
| | 00:36 |
application into a TIF from a PDF.
I'm going to click and drag this over and
| | 00:42 |
then place this by clicking in the end
design document.
| | 00:47 |
So I had sized this cover to 768 by 1024,
which is the pixel dimensions in the end
| | 00:52 |
design document And the reason it's not
filling up the frame here, is because I
| | 00:57 |
had set it at 150 dpi.
And it's going to appear smaller in this
| | 01:04 |
window because InDesign's running it at
72 dpi.
| | 01:08 |
So I need to size it into the window, and
InDesign, like Photoshop, there's
| | 01:13 |
multiple ways to do the same thing.
One way to size this is to hold down the
| | 01:20 |
shift key and click and drag and that's
sizing the frame.
| | 01:27 |
Which is not really what I want here.
So I'm going to go command z, but this
| | 01:30 |
time I'm going to hold down the shift and
the command or control key.
| | 01:36 |
And now drag, and you can see that the
whole image is sized as well.
| | 01:40 |
But that's not the method that I'm
going to use.
| | 01:42 |
Cmd-Z and bring it back to where it was.
Instead, I'm going to come up here and
| | 01:46 |
under the width and height, let me go
ahead and punch in exact numbers, so I
| | 01:50 |
don't have to fudge around to get it just
right.
| | 01:55 |
So I know that 768.
Will give me the width and then, 1024
| | 02:01 |
will give me the height.
And now I have a frame.
| | 02:07 |
You can see the frame is exactly the
right size, but my image isn't.
| | 02:11 |
In order to fill that frame with the
image, I'm going to right-click on the image.
| | 02:16 |
And then under fitting I'm going to fit
the content in this case the image to the frame.
| | 02:22 |
It's that simple.
Now all I have to do is click on the
| | 02:26 |
image and drag.
So I can just click it right into place.
| | 02:30 |
And now it's set right.
Okay, so now I have the cover placed.
| | 02:34 |
Let me close the.
Mini-bridge, get that out of the way.
| | 02:39 |
Because I just want to show you under the
pages.
| | 02:42 |
How now the cover is the first page,
shows up there.
| | 02:46 |
And I want to show you something else as
well.
| | 02:48 |
What, if you look carefully at this
cover, it doesn't look so, the quality
| | 02:52 |
isn't very good.
the representation of the image is not good.
| | 02:57 |
So I'm going to right-click on this image
of the cover and if I come down to the
| | 03:01 |
display performance and use high quality
display, you can see what happens it
| | 03:05 |
immediately gives me a much better
representation of that, cover.
| | 03:12 |
Again, right-click, display performance,
high quality display.
| | 03:17 |
All right, so now we have the cover ready
to go.
| | 03:20 |
I think at this point I'm going to go
ahead and save my document, which I
| | 03:24 |
haven't done up to this point.
And I'm going to call it country, if I
| | 03:30 |
can spell it right, county fair
portraits.
| | 03:34 |
All right and then I'll put it in that
folder.
| | 03:37 |
All right, so now it's all saved.
Okay, now this is the next part that's
| | 03:41 |
actually the most critical aspect of
creating the cover in, InDesign, because
| | 03:45 |
in fact, you don't have to even put a
cover in if you don't want, when you're
| | 03:49 |
putting your InDesign, document together.
You can put the cover in later, using
| | 03:56 |
different program, epub conversion
programs, as cal, like Calibrate.
| | 04:01 |
But I'm going to go ahead and use the in
design export to ePub function, and
| | 04:06 |
actually include the cover.
Let me show you what I mean by that.
| | 04:12 |
So if I go under File, and now Export,
and I select the ePub format, this is
| | 04:16 |
really important.
And I'm going to go ahead and put that
| | 04:21 |
into the assets folder there and I select
save this brings up the Eport export
| | 04:26 |
option and I'll go into great detail
about this whole Eport export options
| | 04:31 |
window later but for now this is the
critical part.
| | 04:38 |
Right here under ePub cover.
So if I select no cover image, this is
| | 04:43 |
what the option that you choose if you
want to place your cover later using
| | 04:47 |
other applications, other conversion
programs.
| | 04:52 |
In this case I'm going to use rasterized
first page.
| | 04:56 |
Which means, it's going to treat this
first page in my ePub doc as a cover.
| | 05:01 |
It's going to rasterize it.
It's already rasterized but let's say if
| | 05:05 |
it had been just an InDesign preation, it
would automatically rasterize it.
| | 05:10 |
And it's also going to tag it as a, as a
ePub cover.
| | 05:13 |
That's the important part.
So it's part of the formatting that will
| | 05:15 |
be tagged as a cover.
So this is the, the critical things you
| | 05:19 |
need to know about placing a cover into
your InDesign document and your export
| | 05:25 |
options when you export your InDesign
document to the epub format.
| | 05:32 |
Now let's move on to getting the rest of
the content into the epub document.
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| Creating a title page and previewing the EPUB document| 00:00 |
In this video I'll show you how I
prepared a title page.
| | 00:05 |
This becomes the first inside page of the
ePub document, and it shouldn't be
| | 00:10 |
confused with the cover, which may or may
not be viewable once the ePub book is
| | 00:14 |
opened in a viewer.
For my title page, I'll use graphics I
| | 00:20 |
extracted from my cover and lay them out
in the ePub doc.
| | 00:24 |
So I'm going to grab the PNG file I
prepared in Photoshop with its transparency.
| | 00:30 |
Grabbing it from mini-bridge, I'm going
to drag it into the In Design doc, and click.
| | 00:37 |
And now it's placed.
If I click inside and drag around I can
| | 00:41 |
get the guide there that shows me that.
It's right in the center.
| | 00:47 |
Okay so that's one graphical element that
I'll use.
| | 00:51 |
And then I need my name, which I've just
also grabbed from the cover.
| | 00:58 |
I cropped just the name part when I click
and drag that over here.
| | 01:01 |
Place it, and center it.
There.
| | 01:07 |
Now you can see I did a pretty loose crop
from the cover.
| | 01:10 |
So I can use InDesign, click and drag and
yeah.
| | 01:15 |
Get that just right so you have the nice
black background.
| | 01:20 |
Now you may be asking yourself why am I
using a graphic for my name?
| | 01:24 |
I could easily have just typed in the, my
name.
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Used type.
But then I wouldn't have had any control
| | 01:30 |
over how the type would look when it's
viewed.
| | 01:33 |
By using a graphc I'm staying consistent
with the type that Bruce Glasky used for
| | 01:37 |
the cover.
And gives me more control over the look
| | 01:41 |
of this particular page.
All right, so there's a couple more things.
| | 01:44 |
This is not done yet even though it looks
good on the in design page.
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I'm going to select the first graphic
here at the top and then hold the shift
| | 01:54 |
key and select the graphic below it
because I want to group these together.
| | 02:02 |
Object and then group.
Now you can see with the dotted line that
| | 02:07 |
they're grouped together.
I'm not done with that, even though by
| | 02:10 |
grouping it I can click and drag and now
the whole thing moves around as a single graphic.
| | 02:16 |
I've got a couple more things that I need
to do to get this right.
| | 02:20 |
This is something that's really very
useful in In Design 5.5.
| | 02:25 |
Object, object export options.
I can give specific export options to
| | 02:31 |
that particular graphic.
And I, and that way, I don't have to make
| | 02:35 |
a universal set of, options that apply to
all my graphics.
| | 02:40 |
I can actually individualize the options.
Which I'm going to do right here.
| | 02:46 |
So I can apply custom rasterization,
let's make that 150 instead of 300.
| | 02:53 |
We'll keep it jpeg.
If you remember they were tiffs when they
| | 02:57 |
came in, but the tiff format's not
supported.
| | 03:00 |
in ePub doc, so we'll change that to
jpeg.
| | 03:05 |
This is the important part here.
Custom image alignment, I want to make
| | 03:09 |
sure that's always centered.
So I'll select that.
| | 03:13 |
And I want to make sure there's always a
little bit of distance between the two graphics.
| | 03:18 |
And I'm going to increase that to two ms.
And here, insert page break.
| | 03:26 |
I do not, I repeat I do not want a page
break before, after or before and after
| | 03:30 |
the image.
I don't want any page break, because I
| | 03:34 |
don't want these two graphics to be
forced apart by applying a page break.
| | 03:39 |
So once I've done that, I select done.
All right, and, now this part, this is the
| | 03:44 |
part tha,t um,LAUGH very important
previewing your work and seeing how it
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actually looked.
You don't, you don't wait til your done
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with your book and preview it, you
preview it all along.
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I'm going to save this, command s, and
then under file.
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Export.
I'll choose the ePub format.
| | 04:08 |
And I'll give it a name, this has a name
already and save it.
| | 04:12 |
I've already saved it once before but I'm
going to replace this one.
| | 04:17 |
And this brings up the ePub export
options.
| | 04:19 |
We're going to get into a lot of detail
about the ePub export options, later.
| | 04:24 |
But let me just go over real breifly some
key things that we need to be clear about
| | 04:28 |
right now for this preview.
So under image, down here at the bottom,
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this is really the relevant setting that
I want you to look at.
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I do not want to select ignore object
export settings.
| | 04:43 |
Remember that I had set some specific
export option settings To that one
| | 04:47 |
graphic, and that's just going to apply
to the, those graphics that are locked together.
| | 04:53 |
This will not apply to other graphics.
But if I wanted to ignore that setting
| | 04:58 |
and just have the main settings apply to
everything, then I would select that.
| | 05:03 |
But I'm not.
I'm not.
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(LAUGH) Let's just leave that un,
deselected right now.
| | 05:08 |
Go back to General.
The other thing I want to make sure Let's
| | 05:11 |
select it down here as view ePub after
exporting.
| | 05:15 |
So now when I select OK, it's going to
automatically open up in Adobe digital editions.
| | 05:23 |
If you don't have this application, it's
free.
| | 05:25 |
It's available on the Adobe sight.
And I suggest you go get it right away.
| | 05:30 |
And it will automatically open in Adobe
Digital Additions if you have that loaded.
| | 05:36 |
And here you can preview your work, I'm
going to click and drag this window so it
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gets to a size that's more akin to let's
say the iPAD might look like.
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There's my cover.
And I'm going to scroll down and take a
| | 05:51 |
look at my title page.
I think that's looking pretty good.
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We've got nice spacing between the two
graphics I, let's see what happens when
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we shrink that down a little bit more.
It's holding really nicely and this is
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really where, this is where the, as they
say, the tires hit the road when you
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start to play with different sizes and
And open, open your window and close it.
| | 06:12 |
and see how the graphics and the text all
work together.
| | 06:16 |
So right now, we've got a really nice
looking cover.
| | 06:19 |
And we have a, I think, also, a very
effective title page.
| | 06:25 |
And we're moving right along, looking
good.
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| Creating a copyright and permissions page| 00:02 |
In this video I'll show you how I add a
copyright and a permissions page.
| | 00:07 |
So we have the cover page, we have the
title page, now we're going to get down
| | 00:11 |
to the third page here, which I'm
going to place the copyright and
| | 00:14 |
permissions on.
I'm going to start over here and select
| | 00:18 |
the type tool from the toolbar.
And click and drag, and make a text box.
| | 00:25 |
It doesn't have to be exact, but just big
enough to hold my text and the graphic
| | 00:29 |
I'm going to place in it.
And then I'm going to go over and select
| | 00:34 |
File and Place and I'm going to navigate
to the word file.
| | 00:39 |
Where I wrote the copyright notice
already earlier.
| | 00:44 |
And here it's important that show import
options is selected.
| | 00:49 |
And once I select Open, I get this word
import options.
| | 00:53 |
And the key here is to remove styles and
formatting from the text and the table.
| | 00:59 |
I've created a preset, with no
formatting, so that that's the only
| | 01:03 |
selection in this in this Import Options
window.
| | 01:07 |
Select OK, and then I'm going to place
the text in the text box.
| | 01:13 |
You can't see it now, let's enlarge this
document a little bit, now we can see it there.
| | 01:20 |
The next thing I'm going to grab this
graphic over here, this photograph, from
| | 01:24 |
the Mini bridge.
Grab it, drag it, drop it, and place it
| | 01:28 |
by clicking, and it's much too large.
So, instead of using the bounding blocks
| | 01:35 |
as I think I'll just go Grab the
selection tool, select it, and then
| | 01:40 |
reduce it here in size down to 25%.
That gets it about where I want it.
| | 01:49 |
And I'm going to do a little bit of
cropping by holding my cursor over one of
| | 01:53 |
these boxes, bounding boxes in.
Dragging down.
| | 01:57 |
Now, I only get this if I have this
selection tool here.
| | 02:01 |
And I can also pull in the sides a little
bit if I want to, just adjusting the
| | 02:06 |
image, tighten it up.
Okay, so that's about right.
| | 02:11 |
Now, the key to placing this graphic in
relationship to the type is right here at
| | 02:16 |
this little blue, square you see at the
top.
| | 02:21 |
Let me hover my cursor over it, and you
can see where it says, drag into text to
| | 02:25 |
anchor an object, or shift-drag to make
it an in-line object, and that's what we
| | 02:29 |
want to do here.
We want to make it an in-line object.
| | 02:34 |
And when we do that, then it ties it
together.
| | 02:38 |
With the type, so they kind of float.
It'll always float in a relationship to
| | 02:42 |
the type.
So let's let's go ahead and do that.
| | 02:46 |
I want to do one thing first, I want to
just, I want to put that over one notch.
| | 02:51 |
I find that it's a little bit easier to
insert it when there's a space there.
| | 02:55 |
Make sure I have the selection tool,
click on the graphic, now I'm going to
| | 02:59 |
shift-click, and just drag it over.
Now you can see that insertion bar, and
| | 03:04 |
I'm going to put it on the other side of
the c for county fair.
| | 03:08 |
Release, and now the image, the graphic
is an inline graphic and I'm going to go
| | 03:12 |
ahead and select the type tool just by
double-clicking anywhere on the type.
| | 03:18 |
You can see it's a over here the type
selected and I have an insertion bar, put
| | 03:23 |
it on the other side of the c and I am
hitting the return key, just bringing
| | 03:27 |
that down.
And I'm going to control now the
| | 03:32 |
relationship between the image and the
text through the Object > Export Options
| | 03:37 |
and let me show you how I'm going to do
that.
| | 03:42 |
First of all I need to select the text.
Grab the selection tool, I'm going to
| | 03:46 |
select the image, go under Object, and
then Object > Export Options, and I'm not
| | 03:51 |
going to do anything with the
restoration, I'll let that happen through
| | 03:55 |
the ePub export.
So,
| | 04:00 |
But I will select custom image alignment
and spacing.
| | 04:04 |
I want to center it.
And I'm going to give it a little bit of
| | 04:08 |
spacing between the graphic and the text.
I do that right here.
| | 04:13 |
Give it maybe, what?
2 m's.
| | 04:15 |
Let's try that.
And we'll leave this insert page break, deselected.
| | 04:20 |
Select Done.
Okay, so now that's set.
| | 04:23 |
Now we have to move down to the type.
Let's get the type right.
| | 04:28 |
And this is where character styles and
paragraph styles come in.
| | 04:32 |
And you're going to need to create a
character style and a paragraph style.
| | 04:35 |
In fact, you're going to probably create
multiple.
| | 04:38 |
Character styles, and paragraph styles.
and so, I'm going to start by opening that.
| | 04:43 |
And right now you see none is selected,
for the character styles.
| | 04:47 |
And you also see that there's an italic
style.
| | 04:50 |
I've already created this, so, let me go
ahead and show you how I've created this
| | 04:54 |
character style, italic.
Let's start over her by selecting Create
| | 05:00 |
New Style.
And double-click now once you've selected it.
| | 05:06 |
And I'll double-click there, and it opens
up character style options.
| | 05:09 |
Let's give it a name.
In this case, we'll call it italic, italics.
| | 05:14 |
move on down to the basic character
format.
| | 05:18 |
Let's give it a font family.
And it really I think I've said this many
| | 05:23 |
times now, but when you're talking about
ePub docs, this is really something out
| | 05:28 |
of your control.
I, I can choose minion pro, which I like.
| | 05:33 |
but whatever the user is using on their
device is really going to be what, what
| | 05:38 |
shows up when they see it.
But for now I'll just chose MinionPro and
| | 05:43 |
this is the key part here.
I want it to be in Italic and size, let's
| | 05:47 |
make it, let's see 12 point, which is a
normal size.
| | 05:53 |
We can position these italics.
Let's not do anything with that, let's
| | 05:57 |
just do normal.
None of these are relevant, except for
| | 06:01 |
the color, you can, you can go ahead and
add a color if you want to your type.
| | 06:07 |
none of these are relevant until you get
down here to.
| | 06:11 |
Export tagging.
Those of you familiar with HTML and style
| | 06:16 |
options, you can see what it's doing
here.
| | 06:21 |
It's created a tag, span, class, italics,
these are all things, I'm not going to
| | 06:25 |
get into frankly because this is all
done, kind of, by InDesign when it does
| | 06:29 |
the export to the ePub format.
And this is more kind of the advanced stuff.
| | 06:36 |
for now, just stick with really kind of
simple character styles, stick with the
| | 06:40 |
ones I show you right now, and you'll be
fine.
| | 06:44 |
And for those more advanced, this export
tagging will be relevant to you.
| | 06:50 |
Once I have that, I select OK, and now I
have two italics.
| | 06:53 |
Let me just get rid of one of those,
select the earlier one and just delete it.
| | 06:57 |
Now, let me show you what happens when I
apply that character style.
| | 07:02 |
I'm down here, I have my type tool
selected, I select all the type, select
| | 07:07 |
italics, and now I have the italic type.
And that will be honored by the ePub format.
| | 07:16 |
The italic part will.
not necessarily the font.
| | 07:21 |
Okay, now we have to create a paragraph
style.
| | 07:23 |
So I'm going to select paragraph styles.
And once again, I've already created one
| | 07:28 |
basic centered.
I showed you how to start, by creating a
| | 07:32 |
new style.
Now, let me just go ahead and show you
| | 07:34 |
one that I've already created.
And you can see how to edit a paragraph
| | 07:39 |
style, or for that matter, a character
style.
| | 07:42 |
Just double-click on it.
And you can see I called it basic centered.
| | 07:47 |
And let's go through the different
options I've chosen here.
| | 07:51 |
I could use Minion Pro again, which
really is meaningless.
| | 07:55 |
font style, this case regular, not
italic.
| | 07:58 |
Size is 12.
Position over here is normal.
| | 08:02 |
So you can see what I have here.
This will produce regular looking type.
| | 08:07 |
Not Minion Pro, necessarily, but Minion
Pro is a good place to start.
| | 08:12 |
So, advanced, character formats.
Nothing there.
| | 08:16 |
Here's something.
That I used.
| | 08:19 |
Indents and spacing.
I want my alignment to be in the center.
| | 08:23 |
Because I want this to be centered type.
And I think I went through all of these
| | 08:28 |
but there's nothing else that was
relevant for this particular paragraph
| | 08:32 |
style, so I won't go through all of
those.
| | 08:37 |
Again, you have the export tagging.
This is for those of you, really, who
| | 08:41 |
want to get underneath the hood, and see
what it's doing.
| | 08:44 |
But that's pretty much the paragraph
style that I call basic centered.
| | 08:49 |
So, what happens when I apply that?
Again, select all the type.
| | 08:54 |
And now, let's.
Click basic centered.
| | 08:58 |
And there you go, we have the type
centered, and we have two styles created.
| | 09:04 |
We'll be creating other styles as we go
along.
| | 09:07 |
I'm going to leave this graphic over here
on the left because I'd set it through
| | 09:11 |
the object object export option shown
here to, to be centered.
| | 09:16 |
It should be centered.
So I'll just go ahead and assume that's
| | 09:19 |
going to do that automatically.
I do want to do one thing here, I'm
| | 09:23 |
going to double-click on the type there
and just pull that over so that's a
| | 09:26 |
little bit tighter there.
Although, you're going to see when we
| | 09:32 |
preview this, that this paragraph, these
spaces here, are really ignored.
| | 09:38 |
What's going to count is how I set the
em, or the m distances earlier.
| | 09:43 |
So let's just take a look, because you
know, you can look at this in InDesign
| | 09:47 |
forever and it's not really going to
necessarily tell you what it's going to
| | 09:51 |
look like in the ePub doc.
So I'm going to save this, Cmd+S, and go
| | 09:59 |
under File > Export and Save > Replace.
And make sure that View ePub after
| | 10:06 |
Exporting is selected.
And I'm going to select OK.
| | 10:10 |
Let's see what, what happens.
I'm going to tell you right now you're
| | 10:14 |
going to be going back and forth a lot.
Like I've been doing here.
| | 10:19 |
When you're working on your Epub docs,
because you really need to see how it's
| | 10:23 |
going to look.
you don't know until you've done that
| | 10:27 |
previewing how it's going to look.
And look, you can see now that graphic,
| | 10:31 |
which in the InDesign document was on the
left side.
| | 10:35 |
Because I've commanded it through an ePub
export function to be in the middle.
| | 10:40 |
It's in the middle now.
But look how nicely the text that it all
| | 10:44 |
fits there in that page.
Actually it's not perfect.
| | 10:47 |
As you can see there's more text down
here at the bottom.
| | 10:50 |
This illustrates, you know, a point that
I'm going to make over and over and over again.
| | 10:54 |
That the user ultimately has control.
Watch what happens when I decrease the
| | 10:58 |
text size.
Which a user very well could be doing on
| | 11:02 |
their device, now it fits just fine.
And so these pages are looking good.
| | 11:07 |
The cover, the title page and the
copyright page is pretty good.
| | 11:11 |
I mean this is, you know,LAUGH again,
considering that I'm not going to have
| | 11:14 |
ultimately that much control over what
the user's doing, it looks really good.
| | 11:19 |
Well let's go back to the InDesign
document.
| | 11:24 |
And you can see how it looks there.
And you saw how it looks when I preview it.
| | 11:29 |
That's how I created the copyright
permissions page.
| | 11:33 |
And now we have three pages done.
All right, let's move on.
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| Placing preface, introduction, and foreword text| 00:02 |
Okay, in this video, I'll show you how I
place the preface, forward, and intro
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text, into my InDesign document.
Scroll down to a empty page.
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There were go, right there.
And now, I'm going to come over to the
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toolbar, select the type tool.
And I'm going to start up here in the
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upper right corner and click and drag and
create a text box, there we go.
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And next I'm going to go under file,
place, and I'll navigate down to my word
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document that contains the text for the
ePub book, there we go.
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I want to make sure that show import
options is selected, and then select open.
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And I've made a preset, that says no
formatting, because I don't want any
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formatting, I want to remove the styles
and formatting from the text and the tables.
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Everything else is deselected.
Now its like okay and you can see now
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underneath my cursor the text appears, if
I just click now and place this text into
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the text box, I think I am going to show
you what happens this is not the way that
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I am going to recommend the ultimate way
to do it, well show you what happens if I
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do that.
So I'm just going to click, and now the
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text fills up that single page, but
here's much more text here so let me
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enlarge this a little bit so you can see.
Down here on the lower right-hand corner,
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the little plus sign, that indicates that
there is more text and it's not flowing
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down to the next page.
So in order for me to do that I need to
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hold down the command control key, click
and you see now the text appears
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underneath the cursor then I come down to
the next page and click and now it flows
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to the next page.
If you only have a couple of pages,
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that's no big deal but if you have let's
say 50 pages of text.
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That could take a little time.
Let me show you a, a quicker way to do this.
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I'm going to have to delete what I've
done.
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So let me go ahead and get rid of that
text book, and get rid of that text box.
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And we'll just, start over again here.
Come back up.
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And it's not, it doesn't hurt for you to
see this again.
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I'm going to reduce the size so I can see
that page more clearly, select the type
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tool, create a text box.
And the text box doesn't have to be
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precise 'cause remember the text is just
going to flow continuously, in the ePub
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document or the ePub publication, and
this is just really for the in design
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documents sake to have that carefully
placed.
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So then File, and then Plays.
Come back down to the Text.
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Okay.
All right?
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Now this time instead of just clicking
and placing the text like I did before,
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I'm going to hold down the Shift key and
then click.
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Now watch what happens.
See how it's gone to the next page automatically?
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It could save you a lot of time.
It's a neat little trick and let me
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enlarge this a little bit, could save you
some time.
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All right, here's my unformatted text as it
appears now in the document.
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And we're not done yet because there's no
formatting, it looks pretty run on.
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So I need to create a paragraph style
that I will apply to this text.
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Come over here to paragraph styles, click
on that.
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You may remember I created a paragraph
style called basic centered, for the
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title page.
But I'm going to create a new paragraph
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style by selecting this icon down at the
bottom.
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And then double-clicking there.
Let's call this body text, and let's give
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it some, some formatting.
I'm going to go ahead and stay with
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Dominion pro, the font size regular, size
12, all that's good so we'll just keep
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that there.
We'll come down to indents and spacing.
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I want the first line indent to be, let's
go a little bit higher than five pixels,
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let's go to ten pixels, and then I want a
little bit of space after each paragraph,
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so, mm, five pixels, I'm not sure if
that's going to be enough, but let's stay
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with five and see how it looks.
So everything else I'll just keep the same.
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Default settings.
Select okay.
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Now this becomes body text.
So let me just take part of the body text.
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I won't take all of it for now.
Let's just take this part of it that we
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want to convert.
And select body text.
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You see how it, how it's formatted it?
Maybe I should expand this a little bit
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so you can see better, and move this
over.
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See how it's given the indentation here
in the first line, and I think that five
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pixels were, that was enough here for the
paragraph break.
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I'm, I'm pretty happy with the way that,
paragraph now looks, and I'm going to go
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ahead, and I guess I'll just select all
the text, and apply that body text to, to
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all the text.
We're not done after we've done this, but
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at least we've got that part done.
Okay, now you see something that just
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happened here that I'm going to have to
fix.
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Right down here because I've changed the
paragraph formatting there's an overrun
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of text.
You can tell because this symbol show sup
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in the lower right-hand corner, so
command control again, click, and now
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I'll go ahead and bring that over to the
next page.
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All right, so you can see how the text
looks.
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There's a couple things I'm going to have
to do to make this text just right.
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Let's find something whether there's an
example where I want, let's say, an italic.
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let me scroll down.
I know there's, I know there's some
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places where I, I want italics.
For example here.
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Let's say chorizo which is, you know, a
foreign word.
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We want that to be italicized so I'm
going to double-click on that and I'm
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going to go over to my character styles
now.
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And you remember I created an italic
character style for the title page.
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That's all ready to go.
I'll click on that and now that character
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style overrides the paragraph style, so
we'll have that italic there.
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Just as a reminder, let me double-click
on that italics character style and you
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can see how I did that.
Here under basic character formats I just
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made the font style italic.
And then, and then I named it italic.
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So that's how I created that character
style earlier.
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And you can create other character
styles, like bold, for example, if you
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want to add bold text to your body text.
And again, that will then become, that
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will override the paragraph style.
All right so I'm not going to go through
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all the, text right now fixing it but you
get the idea how I go about placing, the text.
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How I create a paragraph style for that
text and apply a character style in the
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text itself.
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| Creating header 1 and header 2 styles| 00:00 |
Okay, now in this video I'm going to show
you what I do after I've set the body
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type, I want to creat some headers now
for preface and the author of the preface.
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So I need to create yet another character
style to take into account a header style.
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So let me click on the, that Paragraph
Styles, open that up, I'm going to create
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a new one, double-click on that and we're
going to call this Header 1.
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This is to be our main header, and let's
go down here to Basic Character Formats.
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We can keep the Minion Pro, but I think
maybe we'll make this bold.
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This time we want to make it larger, so
why don't we go up to, let's say 18 for
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the header one.
And then in terms of indents and spacing
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why don't we center this, right there.
And I don't want any indentation on this
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one so let's go back to zero.
There, and I'm not sure what kind of
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spacing yet.
We're going to have to see how header two
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looks, but let's just leave this at five
for now, we can change it later.
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It like okay, now we have this header one
shows up here, in the paragraph style.
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All right, so now, I want By John Carroll
to be a header, too.
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So I have to create yet one more
paragraph style.
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Okay, just click once, and now we have
another paragraph style, 1, up here, that
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we're going to change, double-click on
that, which opens up the paragraph style options.
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And I'm going to call this Header 2.
All right so let's go down here.
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Instead of 18, as we had before, let's go
to 14.
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Actually, I don't, I want it to be 16, we
can just type in a number there.
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16 pixels indents and spacing.
Now here I do want a space after.
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Because I want there to be room after the
header 2, between header 2 and the body text.
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So let's give this a, at least a 10 pixel
space and see how that looks.
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Go back up to my character formats.
I think.
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Instead of font regular, I want to make
this Italic, yeah, there we go.
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And I can go back and change this at any
time, but let's just see how this looks.
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Okay, now, you see how it changed my
Header 1 to Header 2, but I want that to
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be Header 1.
Let's go back to Header 1 on that.
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And now double-click on that, select that
text, and go to Header 1.
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did that, what did I forget to do?
I probably forgot to center it.
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Let's go over to indents and spacing, and
center, yep.
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No problem, there we go.
All right, so we have our header one, we
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have our header two, you can see there,
header two.
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How does that look?
And see, this is how, this is the process.
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We take a look at it, and see what we
think, and we can all, always go back and
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change it.
for now, it's okay.
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And again, when I go in to look at this
in the as an ePub export, it's going to
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look completely different.
It's kind of working the wild west here
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with all this stuff.
down here forward, same thing we want
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that to be a header 1, and by James D
Houston will be a header two.
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And we just gotta move on through now
somehow or another this ended up as a
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header one.
And we don't want that.
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I don't know how that happened.
Very interesting.
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That's going to be a body text.
Yep, and keep going down.
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And here, introduction.
We'll make that a header one.
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And my name, attribution, header two.
And one more.
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Let's see.
Author's Note on Special Edition will be
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a Header 1.
All right, so there we have Header 1 and
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Header 2 created in our text.
Let's take a look and see how this looks.
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I'm going to save this and I'm going to
go select File, Export, Save, Replace the
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Previous Version.
want to make sure that View Epub after
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exporting is selected in the Epub export
options.
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Select Okay, and it should now open in
Adobe Digital Editions, which it has.
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I'm going to shrink this down, because I
Let's see what it'll look like on a
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smaller device.
And let's scroll down and see how our
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headers look.
Okay, there's the preface and there's the
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forward, and the text.
Now, watch how this all resizes and changes.
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See, this is why what I'm seeing in the
InDesign document is really not at all
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what it's going to look like in the final
ePub.
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Publication.
Now, this is the other thing.
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The user can come in and decrease the
size, and change the font.
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But right now, I'm just looking at it in
terms of, how the header came out.
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How the head two came out, and how the
body text looks.
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I'm not looking at anything else, because
there's obviously some.
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Other formatting issues that I'll get to
later, but right now I'm, yeah, it looks
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good and that's how you create a header
one and header two in Indesign and then,
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now we'll move on to the next thing we
have to do.
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| Adding inline graphics with captions| 00:00 |
In this video, let me show you how I
place graphics or photographs into the
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preface, the forward, and the
introduction in text.
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So I'm going to start by writing a
caption.
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Let me go ahead and just paste in some
text that I've already typed so you don't
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have to suffer watching me type.
So there's a caption, Turlock Stanislaus
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County Fair 1976.
But I need to create a paragraph style
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that is specific to the look of a
caption.
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So, I'm going to select paragraph styles,
new, and double-click on that.
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Let's call this caption.
And give it some basic character format.
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We'll leave Minion Pro as our font.
Let's make this italic, and make it a
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little bit smaller than 12, maybe nine
points.
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we will position it using indents and
spacing, alignment center Let's give it
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the five pixels as a space after a number
and select OK.
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Now that becomes our caption.
It's ready to go.
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Now let's go over to mini bridge.
And I have a picture ready to place.
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I'm going to, actually before I place the
picture let me give it a little bit of
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room In the document here.
And it, frankly, this isn't necessary
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because Epub just flows text and
pictures, it really, in many ways it
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doesn't matter how it looks in the end
design document, but for me working with
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it, I need to have it at least look right
here.
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So let me give that a little bit of room
for the graphic.
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I'm going to click and drag this over
here.
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Place it.
Comes in a little bit too large so let me
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take my selection tool up here in the
toolbar select graphic and let me reduce
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it down, let's say 50%.
And that looks about right.
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Okay let me move that out of the way so I
can see better.
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And this blue box up here is the, the
key to getting this graphic set in-line,
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and anchored to the type that I want it
anchored to.
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So I'm going to hold the shift key,
click, and drag, and you can see now my
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insertion point goes right before the,
the t for the Turlock.
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I'm going to bring that down, just
going to.
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Hit the return key.
There, it's placed nicely.
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and if I want to position a graphic in
the InDesign document, so it looks more
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like it'll look, on the ePub document.
I just hit the delete key and bring it on up.
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I don't have to do that though.
On Epub doc it would have automatically flowed.
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So there we have that.
Picture in place.
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I'm not sure how it's going to look when
we look at it as an ePub doc, so I think
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now's a good time to, to go and export it
and check it out.
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So file, export, make sure ePub is set up
as the format.
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I'll select save, replace And let's go
through a couple things here, make sure
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we're looking good contents.
we're not, we haven't really gotten into
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all the export options, yet.
But for now, the main thing is to be able
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to view it after exporting.
That's selected so we're good there.
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I'll hit Okay.
And it'll export it over to the Adobe
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digital editions.
And let's scroll on down and there it is.
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It's it's looking okay.
It's placed right in the middle and it'll
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hold that position as I move, if I shrink
the document, which could very well
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happen if somebody looks on it on, let's
say an iPhone.
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Or, lets say, an iPad would be a little
bit larger, like this.
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So it, it's holding the text with the
graphic nicely.
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So, I think by looking at this, there's
actually one or two thing I will do.
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It, this is so typical, to be able to go
back and forth, from the InDesign
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document to the ePub document.
Just tweaking it, back and forth, back
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and forth, I do this all the time.
So let me go back over here.
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I think one thing I'd like to do is, is
increase the size of that, photograph a
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little bit.
And I'm just going to do that right here
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by increasing it to 125 percent.
And like I said earlier, regardless of
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how it looks in the InDesign document.
it's going to look fine in the ePub
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document, once it's formatted properly.
Let me show you what I mean.
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File, Export, we'll go through this
pretty quickly.
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Save, replace, and keep those options.
Now, the graphic will be larger, the
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photograph is larger.
But you see it's still in the same position.
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It hasn't changed the position, even
though over here in the InDesign
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document, it's well it wasn't before.
It was, do you remember, it wasLAUGH,
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looks like it straightened it out there.
since, since I've been back.
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Now the other thing I wanted to do is I
noticed that I, a little more space
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between this paragraph and the
photograph.
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Even though it looks like there's plenty
of space there.
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in fact, it's not showing up in the epub
version with much space.
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So, I'm going to need to go to my
paragraph styles.
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Now, it's my basic text here that's
causing the problem.
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So I need to come into that style, click
on it.
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Double-click on it.
Let's try again.
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Double-click and come over to indents and
spacing.
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You see here I have a space after five
pixels.
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Well, let's make that ten pixels.
That's going to give me a little bit more
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room there between that paragraph and
that picture.
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It won't show up necessarily here...
But it will show up when I go to export.
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Now, let's do this again pretty quickly.
Replace and okay.
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And it should open up and give us a
little more space right there between
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here and there.
I think that's good for that picture, and
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that placement.
Let me go back over to InDesign.
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And lets see.
Should I do another picture?
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Let's see, show you how that works.
Okay let's do, let's do another one right here.
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Or in the forward and let's find a place
for this, appropriate place.
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I'm just going to scroll looking, reading
the, there we go.
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Let's put a, an image of the studio right
there and I'll just call it the studio
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with Harold Foote.
Harold Foote is the man who owned the business.
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Let's scroll on down.
And that would have been what year?
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I guess that would have been 19 probably
77.
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And that's going to be a, caption.
All right, there's our caption.
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Let's go to Mini Bridge.
Let's find a picture of Harold Foot and
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the studio.
And I'm not finding it here but I'm sure
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I loaded it.
There it is, Harold Foote.
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Good old Harold Foote.
Click and drag it over.
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Drop it.
Again, it just doesn't matter where I
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place it for now, I'll move it out of the
way so I can see better what's going on.
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And I'm going to reduce the size.
let's go down 50% and I'm going to
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double-click here to get the type tool
selected and bring this down so I can see
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what I'm doing.
A little bit better, okay.
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Let's not what I wanted.
Let's move this, I just moved the whole,
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I've moved the whole text box out of the
way there, and that' snot what I wanted.
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I wanted to move the photograph.
I need to select this.
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Okay.
Now it's selected.
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I can see that by the bounding boxes.
And I can move that around.
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And I'm going to make that inline.
So I'll hold the shift key.
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Click and drag.
Position it right there and double-click.
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Let's move this insertion over, and hit a
return key.
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All right.
Even though I've got this huge gap right here.
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it's not going to be relevant when you
look at it in the ePub version, which
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we'll do right now.
File, export, ePub, save, replace, okat,
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and let's see how that one looks.
Now that was done with the forward.
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And there it is.
it's a little small, but, and I can go
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back and enlarge it.
I showed you how I did that earlier.
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I'm going to resize this so you can see
how it holds.
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It should stay nicely with that caption.
So everything's looking good.
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I'm noticing something now though, when
I'm previewing this in Adobe Digital Editions.
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I've neglected to make this text
justified.You see that?
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Okay, well, this is a really good
opportunity for me to show you how I work.
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I'm going to come back and I'm going to
put the mini bridge back, and open up
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paragraph styles.
It's the body text where the problem is.
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So, oh wait, hold on a second here, I've
converted my caption into a body text, I
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don't want to do that.
Let's keep that as a caption.
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It's this text down here.
So the body text, double-click on it.
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And I want to make this, let's see is it
here, there it is, yes.
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Under indents and spacing I want to left
justify it.
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All right.
So now watch what happens, and I'll export.
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Okay.
Save.
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Replace.
Okay, take a look at it now and you
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should see, look it's nicely justified.
OK.
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That's more what I wanted.
And this is a great opportunity to
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emphasize how this process works.
It just goes, you go back and forth, back
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and forth.
Because what you see in the end design
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document is not necessarily what you're
going to see in the epub document.
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And this is how I work.
So this is how I put some of the
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photographs into the preface.
The, and in this case, the forward.
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And I will go back after I finish this
recording, and place the rest of the
| | 10:13 |
documentary style photographs into the
rest of the text.
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There you go.
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| Importing and placing portfolio images into InDesign| 00:00 |
Okay.
So, we have a cover, and we have a title
| | 00:03 |
page, a copyright page, and we have a
preface with the in-line graphic, a
| | 00:08 |
forward with the in-line graphic, you can
see I've gone through and put photographs
| | 00:13 |
throughout the front material here, and
we got that all ready to go.
| | 00:22 |
So in this video now, I'll show you how I
create portfolio pages.
| | 00:27 |
Okay, I'm going to select an empty page
here.
| | 00:31 |
And come over to the type tool.
And I'm going to create a text box.
| | 00:35 |
Click and drag, it doesn't have to be
precise.
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Just get it in the ballpark.
And now I need to put a caption in.
| | 00:43 |
So I'm going to go over to some caption
I've already created and text edit.
| | 00:48 |
I'm just going to go ahead and copy this.
And command C, go back over to In
| | 00:53 |
Design, command V.
And now my caption is placed.
| | 00:59 |
Let's get this right, so it's just a
single paragraph return.
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Now I need to create a special caption
paragraph style.
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So I'm going to come over here to
paragraph styles, and in fact I've
| | 01:12 |
already created one called portfolio
caption.
| | 01:16 |
Let me double-click on that and I'll show
you what I've done.
| | 01:20 |
So I have the font style italic, I have
the size as six.
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As far as indent and spacing goes, I've
got it center aligned.
| | 01:30 |
I haven't done anything over here with
the first last or space after indentation.
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And that's my portfolio, I didn't spell
it right, let's spell that correctly.
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Portfolio caption.
All right, and once I have that set, I'm
| | 01:46 |
going to apply it to the text, paste it
here.
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Portfolio caption is now selected.
And let's, let's, enlarge this a little
| | 01:58 |
bit, so you can see the type.
There we go.
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Okay, so we have the.
We have a portfolio caption ready to go.
| | 02:05 |
But now, we need to bring in a portfolio
image.
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So let's close this.
Now open up mini bridge.
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And find the photograph that we want.
This is the one that I've edited here,
| | 02:18 |
with the A after the 25.
And I'm going to bring that in, and let's see.
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Click and drag and just drop it over
here.
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It doesn't have to be exactly in place.
And the next thing I'm going to do is
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make this a Inline graphic.
So I'll take the selection tool, click on that.
| | 02:41 |
Now we get that little blue box appearing
up there.
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And hold down the shift key.
Click and drag.
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And I want to place that right before the
p in Pleasanton.
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Okay, now it places it automatically
there let me double-click on this.
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I want to get that positioned right, so I
hit the return key.
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Okay, let's see how that's looking on the
page.
| | 03:04 |
Now I need to reduce this page down a
little bit.
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all right, so that picture is actually too
small, I can see in relationship to the
| | 03:12 |
rest of the page.
So let's go back over now and select the
| | 03:16 |
selection tool.
Select the image.
| | 03:20 |
I want to make sure that's selected, not
just the text box.
| | 03:23 |
This is the whole text box.
I just want the image selected right
| | 03:27 |
there, and you can see the little anchor,
signifying that it's anchored to the text.
| | 03:31 |
And let's go over here and enlarge it a
little bit.
| | 03:35 |
Let me go 150%, see how that works.
Okay that fits pretty good.
| | 03:40 |
I'm going to be honest with you, I really
would like this to be larger, I'd like it
| | 03:45 |
to fill up the whole page.
I have done that.
| | 03:49 |
I have tried that, and when I've gone to
view it in the preview mode and as an ePub...
| | 03:56 |
It just doesn't, it doesn't hold the
caption to the picture.
| | 03:59 |
I can't get them to stay on the same
page, when I make it larger.
| | 04:03 |
So, I'm going to compromise, and, and
make it a little bit smaller than I want.
| | 04:08 |
But there, there you go.
Okay, the other thing, the next thing I
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need to do, is with that graphic selected
come up under Object, and Object Export
| | 04:16 |
Options, select that.
Make sure that EPUB and HTML tab is
| | 04:22 |
selected here, click on Custom Image
Alignment and Spacing, going to center it
| | 04:27 |
And I'm not going to give it any space
before or after, in terms of alignment.
| | 04:35 |
I want the caption to be right up against
the photograph.
| | 04:38 |
I could change that right here, with the
spacing afterwards if I wanted to, but
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I'm not going to.
The important thing here, is this insert
| | 04:45 |
page break.
I want this image in the caption to exist
| | 04:49 |
on its own page so I need to select
insert page break before image.
| | 04:56 |
I don't wan tit after the image and I
don't want it before and after image.
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I want before image.
So once that's done and I think I'm ready
| | 05:04 |
at this point to preview it.
So let's go ahead and preview this.
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File, and then export.
Make sure the epub format's selected here.
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And hit save.
We will replace the previous version.
| | 05:23 |
Okay, we'll just leave that as it is,
view Epub after exporting, actually I
| | 05:27 |
want to show you one thing before I leave
here, image, I want to make sure this is
| | 05:31 |
not selected ignore object export
settings, I don't want to ignore those
| | 05:35 |
object export settings that define the
picture is centered and that there'll be
| | 05:39 |
a new page on the graphic so do not
select that.
| | 05:46 |
Okay?
And now this should open this up in the
| | 05:50 |
Adobe Digital Editions so we can take a
quick preview.
| | 05:54 |
That's our cover.
We know that looks good.
| | 05:56 |
We've already previewed all that.
So let's come on down.
| | 05:59 |
There it is.
Oh, good.
| | 06:00 |
I uh,LAUGH.
I'm a little bit relieved because I have
| | 06:03 |
had some trouble getting this to work
right.
| | 06:07 |
To get the caption and the image to
appear on the same page.
| | 06:10 |
Let me see what happens when I shrink
this down.
| | 06:12 |
Okay, see it's holding.
So I'm, I'm getting the, what I want,
| | 06:16 |
which is the caption.
Which is very important to me.
| | 06:19 |
these captions really are a critical part
of the, the images.
| | 06:24 |
So it's holding nicely, I'm going to do
one more preview and I need to show you
| | 06:28 |
something I haven't shown up to this
point and that's the kindle previewer so
| | 06:33 |
let me open that right now.
The kindle previewer is a free app that
| | 06:39 |
you can get by going to the amazon site
or just google kindle previewer.
| | 06:45 |
This Kindle Previewer, I'll talk a lot
more detail about it later, but
| | 06:49 |
basically, it gives you a way of
previewing your work in the Kindle and
| | 06:53 |
other devices.
So, under file, I'm going to open the
| | 06:59 |
book and I need to go to.
My asset, I gotta find the epup, there it
| | 07:05 |
is, okay.
Select that, select open.
| | 07:09 |
Now the Kindle preview is compiling a
book using Kindledon, don't worry about
| | 07:14 |
that right now.
Everything works fine.
| | 07:17 |
The more important thing is you know, how
does it look?
| | 07:19 |
Just going to open it in the Kindle
preview.
| | 07:22 |
This is as if it was looking at the
Kindle device.
| | 07:25 |
And you'll be able to see that this is,
that's a bad job because it's, you know,
| | 07:30 |
it's basically grey scale and, it's not
the best way to look at photographs.
| | 07:37 |
But let's take a look at another device,
let's see how it would look on the iPad.
| | 07:41 |
Kindle for iPad.
And now of course, it's looking better
| | 07:45 |
already, and now I want to, scroll.
Actually go to the last page it's, it's
| | 07:49 |
really the gallery, the portfolio images
I want to take a look at and make sure
| | 07:53 |
that they're looking good.
All right, so I have a little problem.
| | 08:00 |
See right away the caption itself is not
fitting on that full page.
| | 08:05 |
It's going down to the next page.
Darn it.
| | 08:08 |
Okay, let me see if I can fix that by,
yeah, there it is.
| | 08:12 |
This is going to make a big difference.
Let's set the size of the type smaller.
| | 08:18 |
And there you go.
That really illustrates how little
| | 08:20 |
control you have over how things look on
these devices.
| | 08:24 |
But right now, if the type is set smaller
It'll fit nicely into the iPad, screen.
| | 08:32 |
So all right I'm satisfied with this.
Let's go back over to InDesign and I'm
| | 08:36 |
certainly not going to go through all 25
pictures showing you what I've done here.
| | 08:43 |
But you get the idea, you got the process
of what I do to go ahead and make a so
| | 08:47 |
called portfolio or gallery page with the
caption and it does take a little bit of
| | 08:51 |
finessing and you're going to be going
back and forth like I have into the
| | 08:55 |
preview mode to get this right.
You may need to change the size of the
| | 09:02 |
picture a little bit or maybe change the
size of the font a little bit.
| | 09:06 |
That just goes with the territory when
you're working with the Apop documents
| | 09:10 |
and InDesign.
There you go.
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4. Adding Hyperlinks and a Table of ContentsCreating hyperlinks in InDesign| 00:00 |
It's really easy to add hyperlinks to an
ePub document and in this video, I'll
| | 00:05 |
show you how.
Hyperlinks can be used to send the viewer
| | 00:10 |
to your email address or to a website.
They can also be used to send the viewer
| | 00:14 |
to another page within the document, but
I'm not going to use that feature.
| | 00:18 |
So, let's go ahead, I'm going to start by
selecting my name here.
| | 00:24 |
And then, under Type, Hyperlinks & Cross
References, New Hyperlink and I'm
| | 00:31 |
going to link this to a URL because I
want them to go to my website.
| | 00:38 |
It starts off with the http://, so all I
need to do is type in www.echelon.com.
| | 00:49 |
So, that's the destination or the
address.
| | 00:55 |
And character style, I can select one of
the styles.
| | 00:58 |
Any styles that I selected or created,
any of my character styles will show up here.
| | 01:04 |
I only have one now, that's italics.
So, let's, let's keep it consistent.
| | 01:09 |
as far as appearance goes, I can give it
a visible rectangle.
| | 01:13 |
So, people will know it's a hot link and
I can define how that rectangle is going
| | 01:18 |
to look.
Let's see if that shows up It doesn't
| | 01:22 |
show up so well there when I select okay
and go to it, you'll be able to see.
| | 01:28 |
Let's go ahead and keep this, give it a
dashed style, keep it black, Highlights None.
| | 01:35 |
All right, so we have that all set up,
we're ready to select OK.
| | 01:38 |
And now, let's see what it looks it.
There you go.
| | 01:42 |
So, somebody, a viewer will know they'll
be cued by this dashed box to click on that.
| | 01:48 |
And then, that will lead, if they're
online to my website.
| | 01:52 |
Now, as far as the email goes, let's go
ahead and make that a hyperlink as well.
| | 01:58 |
Select that, back to type.
And then, Hyperlinks & Cross-References.
| | 02:03 |
New Hyperlink, and we'll make this an
e-mail.
| | 02:08 |
And right here, we give it an address
which is editor@cyberbohemia.com.
| | 02:16 |
And we can even give it a subject line.
So, you could say from, from a county
| | 02:23 |
fair reader.
So you'll know where it's coming from.
| | 02:28 |
And once again, you can give it a style
and appearance, these are all the same as
| | 02:32 |
what we used earlier.
So, let's go ahead and stay with
| | 02:36 |
consistent with those.
And when I select OK, we're all set.
| | 02:42 |
So, now when these are when this document
is exported to the ePub format and put
| | 02:48 |
into a reader.
When a reader now opens up this document
| | 02:54 |
in their, in their reader, they'll be
able to either go to my website, if
| | 02:57 |
they're online or send me an email.
It's that easy to create hyperlinks in In Design.
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| Creating a table of contents| 00:02 |
Let's see how easy it is to use InDesign
to generate a table of contents or TOC.
| | 00:07 |
I'm going to grab a new page here and put
it in after the copyright page, and then
| | 00:13 |
go under Layout, Table of Contents.
And I'm going to give this TOC a title,
| | 00:21 |
actually I already have, Contents.
I'll give that a paragraph style of a
| | 00:26 |
Header 1.
And I have a good reason for that and
| | 00:29 |
I'll show you that shortly.
I'm going to select Header, where is it,
| | 00:34 |
Header 1 as one of the styles I want and
add it over here.
| | 00:40 |
And Header 2 as well.
Okay, so I'm going to base my TOC entries
| | 00:45 |
on Header 1 and Header 2.
All right.
| | 00:48 |
So, under Header 1, I'll select that and
I want to point this out if you haven't
| | 00:52 |
selected this before, it'll just say More
Options, and then you click on it and you
| | 00:55 |
get these options that show up here.
So, for the Header 1, I want the same
| | 01:02 |
style and I want the Page Number after
the entry.
| | 01:08 |
And lets give it a let's give it a
little, an m dash.
| | 01:14 |
it's a Level 1.
in terms of style, let's just leave that
| | 01:19 |
at none, style none.
Okay, so then, over here to Header 2.
| | 01:24 |
I'm going to create a different entry
style for that.
| | 01:27 |
I want it to be a body, let's see, body
italics.
| | 01:30 |
I create it, it's just a body text with
italics.
| | 01:33 |
So, it'll be a little bit smaller and in
italics than Header 1.
| | 01:38 |
And I don't want a page number after
that.
| | 01:41 |
And is there anything else here?
It's Level 2 which is good.
| | 01:45 |
So, the next important thing is to be
sure to save the style.
| | 01:49 |
And you'll see why it's so important
shortly.
| | 01:52 |
TOC, Table of Contents, County Fair.
Okay.
| | 01:58 |
And I'm going to go ahead and select OK.
But I can always come back later and
| | 02:03 |
change these settings if I want.
All right, so underneath my cursor, you see
| | 02:08 |
the text there.
I'm going to click in that page that I created.
| | 02:13 |
And you see how it's generated the
contents page.
| | 02:17 |
With the Preface, the Foreword, the
Introduction, the Special Portfolio Edition.
| | 02:22 |
If I'm working on the document later and
I add, let's say, other Header 1 or
| | 02:27 |
Header 2 styles and I select the TOC like
this, and go under Layout, Update Table
| | 02:33 |
of Contents.
It will automatically generate a new
| | 02:39 |
table of contents based on the new
information that I have entered into my
| | 02:43 |
into my document.
So, it's pretty smart, pretty easy, but
| | 02:48 |
let's see how it looks when we export it.
So, File, Export, Format ePub, Save, Replace.
| | 02:59 |
Okay, under Contents, this is very
important that you selected this use
| | 03:03 |
InDesign TLC style.
And then, here, your style should show up
| | 03:07 |
as an option.
And be sure to select that.
| | 03:11 |
Now, here's the other thing that I'm
going to be sure that's selected is Break
| | 03:14 |
Document at Paragraph Style, Header 1.
You remember, I made the word Contents at
| | 03:19 |
Header 1.
So, that means, now that will start a new
| | 03:22 |
page as will all my Header 1s which I
wanted to do.
| | 03:26 |
All right, so I'm going to select OK.
And let's see how this looks in the in
| | 03:30 |
the Preview mode.
Okay.
| | 03:32 |
There's there it is over here on the
left.
| | 03:35 |
If I select Preface, it'll take me right
there.
| | 03:37 |
And because we've made Header 1 as a new
page, it'll open up to that page.
| | 03:43 |
And the same with the Foreword and the
same with the Introduction.
| | 03:46 |
And now, let's scroll back up and see how
it looks here in the document.
| | 03:52 |
It doesn't look great, but I have no idea
how this is going to look in the actual
| | 03:55 |
device, the, the reader.
And and you really don't have much
| | 03:59 |
control over that.
See the, the reader can control the type
| | 04:02 |
size and there's so many things they have
control over.
| | 04:07 |
But you'll have a very functional TLC and
it's that easy.
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| Adding IPTC metadata to a document| 00:02 |
In this video I'll go over some important
details regarding metadata and you
| | 00:06 |
InDesign ePub document.
So, under File > File Info, under
| | 00:11 |
Description, you can see I've filled out
the document title and the author.
| | 00:20 |
These are the key fields that you need to
have filled in.
| | 00:23 |
These other fields you can fill in, but
they won't necessarily be read when the
| | 00:28 |
document is exported to the ePub format.
But be sure to have the document title,
| | 00:34 |
and the author filled in.
And we'll select okay.
| | 00:38 |
And now when I go under File > Export >
Format ePub > Save.
| | 00:47 |
All right.
I need to make sure here, under the
| | 00:50 |
general heading that Include Document
Metadata is selected.
| | 00:57 |
If that's not selected, it won't take
that information that I just filled in.
| | 01:01 |
you can put here, under the Publisher's
Entry, the publisher name or URL or
| | 01:05 |
whatever you want.
As far as unique identifier, you can
| | 01:09 |
leave that blank.
It'll be filled in automatically for you.
| | 01:14 |
So, once you've done that, and you select
OK, you're going to see now when we open
| | 01:18 |
up into Adobe Digital Editions, the title
shows up here and so does the author.
| | 01:26 |
If I hadn't put that information in there
or if I hadn't checked that box to show
| | 01:30 |
that information or include that
metadata, this information would not be
| | 01:34 |
part of my ePub doc.
And you do want it to be part of it.
| | 01:40 |
So, that's it in a nutshell.
Right now the ePub format really has
| | 01:44 |
somewhat limited support for metadata,
but these are the critical things you
| | 01:50 |
need to get in there.
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5. Exporting to EPUB FormatGeneral EPUB export options| 00:02 |
Okay, in this video I am going to go over
in detail till what you need to know
| | 00:05 |
about the export option.
Okay, lets first get to the export
| | 00:11 |
options by selecting File export and we
want to make sure that epub is selected
| | 00:17 |
for our format and have it save replace.
and in this video, we're going to focus
| | 00:25 |
on the general export options.
But let's just go through, in detail,
| | 00:29 |
what you need to know here.
So, starting here with general epub.
| | 00:34 |
Include document metadata.
If this is selected, and it should be.
| | 00:39 |
The information that you have put in here
under file.
| | 00:43 |
File info.
especially the creator field will be included.
| | 00:49 |
If you do not, select this.
I'm going to show you what happens.
| | 00:54 |
I'm going to deselect this and I'm going
to hit okay.
| | 00:58 |
Now it'll open up in the Adobe Digital
Editions as a preview.
| | 01:03 |
But look here, author unknown.
Okay, so that, that's what's going to
| | 01:08 |
happen if you haven't included that,
checked that box.
| | 01:12 |
So, let's go back.
I'll show you the file information, so
| | 01:15 |
you can see what I'm talking about.
The IPTC, there's the creator field.
| | 01:19 |
Now, let's make sure that that's filled
in.
| | 01:22 |
So, let's go back here, file Export, and
epub save replace again.
| | 01:25 |
so let's select that.
Next time it exports it will save the,
| | 01:28 |
that important meta data.
The ad publishers entry, you can put
| | 01:35 |
whatever you want here.
I put Cyberbohemia press, I could have
| | 01:42 |
put a url.
Whatever it's information about the
| | 01:46 |
publisher goes there.
Unique identifier, you don't have to
| | 01:49 |
worry about that.
That's automatically filled in for you.
| | 01:53 |
So you can just leave that blank and
it'll be filled in for you.
| | 01:56 |
Down here, epub cover.
If you don't want to include a cover
| | 02:00 |
image with your epub export you'd select
no cover image, now that doesn't mean
| | 02:05 |
that you won't have a cover it just means
it will be generated for you but it will
| | 02:09 |
be one of those ugly generic covers and
lets use another app downstream to add a
| | 02:13 |
cover which we can do calibrate, for
example, allows you to add a cover before
| | 02:18 |
you export it out to Amazon or Barnes and
Noble.
| | 02:27 |
But in this case I have rasterized first
page which is my cover, that's selected.
| | 02:31 |
And if I want to use an existing file, I
can just use that, and then choose the
| | 02:36 |
file from there.
But I'm using rasterize first page.
| | 02:40 |
So ordering based on page layout, and
we'll just keep that option.
| | 02:46 |
Book margin all right so the unit is
that's used is ms, and you can play
| | 02:50 |
around with this a little bit its
going to be one of those aesthetic things
| | 02:54 |
how much of a margin do you want between
the text the image and the edge of the device.
| | 03:02 |
I've put this at .5.
Let me go ahead and show you what happens
| | 03:07 |
with a, with an extreme m.
I'm going to give it a three instead.
| | 03:11 |
And now I'll export it and we'll see how
that's going to change the margins here.
| | 03:16 |
Now look, see, my cover doesn't even fill
up the page.
| | 03:19 |
So, you can see, it's pretty extreme when
you go to three ms.
| | 03:24 |
Let me go back.
Now we need to do the export again.
| | 03:27 |
Get back to where we were.
Save, that's no problem.
| | 03:30 |
You're going to need to get used to this,
by the way, going back and forth, because
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this is very typical.
You, you will be viewing your document
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many times to see what it actually looks
like when it's exported.
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So let's go back to the 0.5.
That's what I had selected originally,
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and I think that works pretty well.
Bullets, I have no bullets, I have no
| | 03:52 |
numbers so this is not relevant in this
case, that's pretty self explanatory,
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here's the important option that I've
spoken of many times, view epub after
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exporting, that just means it will open
up right after hit okay and you can view it.
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And get a sense of what it'll actually
look like.
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so if you deselect that, it just won't do
anything.
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So that's pretty much the epub export
options general page, and that's pretty straightforward.
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There you go.
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| Image EPUB export options| 00:02 |
This video will go voer the epub images
options found when you go to export your
| | 00:06 |
Indesign document which we'll do right
now.
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File, export, make sure epub is selected,
save, replace and let's select image here.
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So at the top the first option you have
is preserve appearance from layout.
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And if that's selected what that means is
that all the settings that you applied to
| | 00:29 |
your graphic in this case the, the images
for example the formating, the rotation,
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the scaling, if you've added a border to
the image or a crop.
| | 00:40 |
All this information will be retained on
the export.
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And if you don't select it, it won't be,
it's that simple.
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Resolution, you can select from various
resolutions.
| | 00:51 |
I've selected 150 bpi image size.
Relative to page is what I suggest you use.
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That way, when someone resizes their page
in their, viewer, image will resize
| | 01:03 |
relative to the page.
Otherwise it'll just be a fixed size and
| | 01:08 |
that's not what you want.
Image alignment and spacing?
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Well, this is pretty straightforward.
You want your image to the left, centered
| | 01:16 |
or to the right.
And if you want to give a little spacing
| | 01:21 |
at the top or the bottom of the image,
you apply a value here higher than 0 ems,
| | 01:25 |
and ems, by the way, is the unit we use
for, for this, for the epub docs.
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And lets see insert page break if you
select that, and you select before a
| | 01:37 |
image when your image opens up in a
viewer it will go to a new page for that
| | 01:41 |
image as opposed to, if there is text
above it the text may show or not show
| | 01:45 |
but in this case if its, if its selected
the image itself will open up on the new
| | 01:50 |
page you also have the choice to do it
after the image, or before and after.
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I, I'm just going to use before image.
Settings apply to anchored objects.
| | 02:04 |
This is a little bit complicated.
Because I don't find it to really work
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the way it seems to, supposed to work.
And what I mean by that, is, when I
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anchored, those photographs in the
introduction and the preface.
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I set them up so they would be in the
middle of the page.
| | 02:21 |
Now if I select over here, to align it to
the left, you would think that this then
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would mean to override my previous
settings in In Design.
| | 02:34 |
I have found that it doesn't do that.
So I'm not sure exactly, maybe it's
| | 02:38 |
supposed to do it and it's not.
What I understand about this setting and
| | 02:43 |
how it's explained to me is, that this
will make these settings override the
| | 02:48 |
anchored object settings.
So, there you go.
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Maybe you'll find that it works, I just
haven't found it to work in the way I'm
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doing my InDesign document.
So, image conversion, you have a choice
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between the giff, the jpeg and the png
format, I suggest jpeg especially if
| | 03:05 |
you're using photographs.
And if you're doing the jpeg conversion,
| | 03:11 |
you have the standard jpeg options of
image quality, from low to maximum, I think.
| | 03:17 |
High is a nice compromise, for me at
least.
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it's going to make a, the maximum size
file but it will retain the quality I want.
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Format method, these are again standard
jpeg options, progressive or baseline.
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I would go with baseline.
Progressive means that the jpeg appears progressively.
| | 03:38 |
I've just found on the web and, and, and
browsers and other electronic devices
| | 03:41 |
that progressive doesn't always work the
way its supposed to so I just stay with
| | 03:45 |
base line.
Okay this the final choice you have here
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in the, export options under image is
whether or not you ignore the object
| | 03:54 |
export settings or not.
Remeber is some of my pictures I have
| | 04:00 |
acutally applied an object export setting
specific to those photographs.
| | 04:06 |
And that was found up here under object
export options right here.
| | 04:10 |
It's grayed out because we're in this
window.
| | 04:13 |
But I don't want to ignore those settings
because I want, I applied those
| | 04:17 |
specifically for a reason.
I want those to override these settings here.
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So, I keep this deselected.
Otherwise it will do just that, ignore
| | 04:29 |
those object export settings and then
apply these settings to all the images regardless.
| | 04:37 |
So that's the, the image options for the
epub, export options window.
| | 04:43 |
Let's move on.
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| Contents EPUB export options| 00:02 |
Let's look at the ePub contents options
you have when you export your InDesign
| | 00:07 |
document to ePub.
So File > Export > Format ePub > Save.
| | 00:15 |
Whoops, replace that.
So, Select Contents.
| | 00:20 |
All right.
So the first choice is, what format for
| | 00:23 |
your ePub content.
And most of you are going to select the XHTML.
| | 00:30 |
The DTBook format is a specialized
format, and it's for sight impaired readers.
| | 00:36 |
So, that's probably not what you're
going to select here.
| | 00:40 |
Under Contents if you select Use InDesign
TOC, which is a table of contents style,
| | 00:46 |
you'll see your various styles will show
up here, if you've created one.
| | 00:53 |
And I have, for county fair.
And that will now generate a table of
| | 00:58 |
contents based on that style.
So, break documented paragraph style if
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you want to make a new page based on a
particular paragraph style, and remember
| | 01:09 |
we've created several paragraph styles.
For example, if I want a Header 1 to
| | 01:16 |
start a new page, I would select that.
And that, in fact, is what, something I
| | 01:22 |
will do.
that means that all my Header 1's will
| | 01:25 |
start off at a top of a new page, which
is definitely what I want here.
| | 01:30 |
But you can select different styles if
you want to become the break document.
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We don't have any footnotes.
we don't, I'm not worrying about the
| | 01:40 |
remove forced line breaks, that's just
some formatting that will check to remove
| | 01:45 |
all soft returns in the exported ebook.
and I obviously, if you, if you think you
| | 01:51 |
have those, you want to, you want to
select that.
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And then under the CSS Options, I have
not really gotten into the whole
| | 02:00 |
Cascading Style Sheets issues and
generating them.
| | 02:04 |
so I'm not going to go into this.
This is something that's for more
| | 02:09 |
advanced users that are going to be doing
that.
| | 02:13 |
These are just different different
options you have for your Cascading Style Sheets.
| | 02:18 |
So, we'll just, I'll leave that alone.
Once your done with General Imaging
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Content options, select OK, and InDesign
will now generate the epub.commit based
| | 02:31 |
on all these settings.
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| Previewing in Amazon Kindle Previewer, Adobe Digital Editions, calibre, and Sigil| 00:02 |
In this video I'll just give you a very
general overview of some of the
| | 00:05 |
applications that I use for previewing my
Epub document.
| | 00:10 |
We've seen how your doc will open
automatically if you have Adobe Digital
| | 00:14 |
editions on your machine, and this is
just a free download from the Adobe site,
| | 00:17 |
if you don't have it.
So this is one way to preview your, your
| | 00:23 |
work before you go out to publish.
Another application that I find useful is
| | 00:30 |
the Amazon Kindle Previewer.
Let me go ahead and open a file there,
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and we can preview how the book will look
on some various devices.
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At first it goes through some kind of a
process to see that the Epub doc is
| | 00:46 |
actually going to be compatible for the
Kindle.
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Select okay.
Now it'll open the book.
| | 00:54 |
And here's your devices up here.
You can choose between Kindle, Kindle DX,
| | 00:58 |
Kindle for i-phone; let's try Kindle for
i-pad for example.
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Let's see how this might look on an
I-pad.
| | 01:05 |
Right?
So, it's generating the images and the
| | 01:09 |
text and the pages as if it would be
viewed on an I-pad.
| | 01:14 |
Let's see what it looks like on an
Iphone.
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That's going to be a lot smaller.
This is not going to be exactly what it's
| | 01:22 |
going to look like.
obviously the viewer can change the size
| | 01:25 |
of the type and the fonts and
everything's going to look a little
| | 01:28 |
different, but it gives you an idea.
There you go.
| | 01:31 |
So that's the Kindle previewer, which is
a free download from the Amazon site.
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I would just Google Kindle previewer to
find it.
| | 01:39 |
And then the other application that's,
this is just really for advanced users,
| | 01:42 |
is the, sidual.
Let me open, portraits, and sidual, is
| | 01:47 |
what's called shareware, free download,
but obviously if you're going to use it a
| | 01:53 |
lot you can donate to the, To the people
who make it.
| | 02:00 |
This is where you can get into the guts
of Epub.
| | 02:03 |
document.
And you can see here, when I say Epub
| | 02:07 |
doc, or Epub document, I'm not really
being accurate.
| | 02:10 |
Because here is, Epub is really more of a
container that holds.
| | 02:14 |
Lots of different components, and you can
really see it with Sigal.
| | 02:18 |
So here's the text folder, and this is
the HTML, so you can actually go in and
| | 02:22 |
see that, how the Epub, format, document,
what ever you want to call it, the
| | 02:26 |
package, is really a combination of, of
HTML.
| | 02:32 |
And you can see now here the cascade
style sheets.
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That's another folder it contains, it
contains a folder with all the images
| | 02:39 |
that are going to be part of the Epub
documents and fonts, etc.
| | 02:45 |
So essentially you can really get an idea
of what Epub is all about and if you want
| | 02:49 |
if you've got the expertise you can go
into the code view here.
| | 02:54 |
And you can actually go in and tweek the
code, and, you know, from the people I
| | 02:59 |
know that are really, really into
publishing these ePub publications, or
| | 03:03 |
documents, or whatever you want to call
them.
| | 03:08 |
This is really a must, to be able to go
in and, and, fine tune the code.
| | 03:13 |
And even more so I find that people that
are really in the know go into the
| | 03:18 |
template for the css style sheet, and
work that as well.
| | 03:23 |
Just go in and, and getting into the guts
and doing the work there.
| | 03:27 |
So this is Sigil, it's S-i-g-i-l, and
again I would just Google it and you'll
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find it as a download on the Internet.
And then finally this is another app,
| | 03:39 |
Calibre, that I used in the past.
I don't know what to say, I, I'm not
| | 03:44 |
using it so much now, but I have used it.
It, it's a great way of organizing my, my
| | 03:49 |
books, my Epub books And you can do, you
can do a lot of things.
| | 03:54 |
You can convert the books here, and you
get a lot of control over the conversion,
| | 03:57 |
although I've already converted it to the
ePub, as you can see here, that it's the
| | 04:01 |
input format.
But look at the various options for output.
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So there's a lot of output options.
Now I can go in and, and get into the.
| | 04:11 |
various metadata entries that I've put in
in inDesign, I can do that here.
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This is, very useful, it's very popular.
Calibrate, a lot of people use it.
| | 04:22 |
It's again, a free download from the web.
So, between all those applications that I
| | 04:27 |
mentioned to you that you're going to
have a lot of, get a lot more control
| | 04:30 |
over your, the ultimate look of your Epub
document, and that there probably are
| | 04:34 |
other ones out there, I'm sure there are,
but those are the ones I know about, the
| | 04:38 |
one I use.
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6. Publishing and Marketing Your EbookUploading EPUB docs to a distributor| 00:02 |
(NOISE) Okay, you finished your epub
title.
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it's sitting there on your desktop.
What do you do now?
| | 00:07 |
In this video, we'll look at your
options.
| | 00:10 |
So, I'm going to direct you to the Amazon
site, for Kindle Direct Publishing.
| | 00:17 |
And you can see the URL up here, but you
can also just Google Kindle Direct
| | 00:21 |
Publishing and find your way to this
site.
| | 00:25 |
This is really where all the information
exist.
| | 00:28 |
Anything you're going to need to know is
going to be here.
| | 00:32 |
So, over here with the FAQs, there's a
whole publishing guide.
| | 00:36 |
It's just everything from getting
started, preparing your book, publishing
| | 00:41 |
your book, merchandising your book,
managing your sales, frequently asked
| | 00:45 |
questions, all this stuff.
It's really well done.
| | 00:49 |
Amazon has their act together on this and
it's just so easy to publish straight to
| | 00:56 |
Amazon's site with your E Pub document.
And you'll start off by signing in,
| | 01:05 |
you'll create an Amazon account.
So, I've already done it, but you know,
| | 01:09 |
it's, it's so straightforward.
Basically you sign in with your email address.
| | 01:14 |
And I'm not going to go through the whole
step by step because it is just so straightforward.
| | 01:20 |
So self explanatory.
And they'll be able to walk you through
| | 01:23 |
the uploading of your, of your document.
setting up the bank account, so the money
| | 01:28 |
will go directly into your bank account.
it's just, I have to say and I've said
| | 01:33 |
thisLAUGH earlier, but Amazon really
makes it easy.
| | 01:37 |
So, get your book up on Amazon right
away.
| | 01:39 |
It, it's that easy.
The, the other site that I go to that
| | 01:42 |
I've been publishing through is pubit.
This is the Barnes and Noble site.
| | 01:47 |
And once again, if you just Google pubit
Barnes and Noble, you'll probably end up
| | 01:52 |
at the same site that I'm at right now in
Safari.
| | 01:56 |
But they make it pretty easy, too.
So, it's just upload it, pub it, sell it.
| | 02:02 |
Then show it right there, how easy it
is.
| | 02:04 |
And you, you'll need to go ahead and
register just like you do at Amazon.
| | 02:10 |
Yeah, it takes a little bit of time.
But it's straightforward registration,
| | 02:14 |
and then you setup an account.
And and make sure that your ePub title
| | 02:19 |
has uploaded properly and you're off and
running.
| | 02:24 |
It's really, really that easy.
The final suggestion I was going to make
| | 02:29 |
is the Apple iBook Store.
I've dealt with them, directly, and I've
| | 02:33 |
tried to put my work straight up on the
iBook store, and I gotta be really frank
| | 02:37 |
with you, it's not been easy.
In fact, even to this day, I haven't
| | 02:43 |
gotten approval for my titles to go up on
the iBooks store.
| | 02:46 |
I don't know what's going on.
And other people say the same thing.
| | 02:50 |
It's, it's, it's, there's something.
Maybe they're just discouraging people
| | 02:54 |
from going straight to their iBooks
store.
| | 02:57 |
Because there are a lot of iBook Store
aggregator.
| | 03:00 |
And I'm going to suggest you go straight
to an aggregator.
| | 03:04 |
And there's several of them.
Ingram, In-scribe Digital, Libra Digital
| | 03:07 |
Smashwords, if your in Europe, there's
Eye Rolls, if you're a patient, you might
| | 03:10 |
think about working with Apple directly.
Go to one of these iBook aggregators.
| | 03:16 |
I don't have any suggestion on any
particular one.
| | 03:20 |
Work through them.
You, you may not get quite the percentage
| | 03:23 |
that you would get if you went directly
through Apple, but believe me, you would
| | 03:27 |
save yourself a lot of time and hassle.
So, it really is that straightforward.
| | 03:33 |
Once you have created that ePub document,
it's this straightforward to get it up at
| | 03:37 |
least into Amazon, and Barnes & Noble.
And if you go through an iBook
| | 03:42 |
aggregator, you have your, your book
available to sell anywhere in the world.
| | 03:47 |
Well, most anywhere in the world, through
these outlets.
| | 03:50 |
Another outlet that I've never really
explored much, but I, but I plan to, is
| | 03:53 |
Google Books.
I just, its relatively one of the new
| | 03:56 |
kids on the block and I just I'll get
there.
| | 04:00 |
And I, I suggest if you, if you want to
add that to, to the list, just Google Books.
| | 04:06 |
And there you go, and good luck on this.
I, I think, you'll find that it's very
| | 04:11 |
straightforward and really satisfying to
have your work up there and for sale, and
| | 04:16 |
even more satisfying when the money
starts coming in.
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| Promoting and marketing your work| 00:02 |
Okay, what do you do once you've
successfully published your book and it's
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up on say Amazon?
What do you do next?
| | 00:09 |
So here's this, some of the books that
I've gotten up on Amazon, some e books,
| | 00:13 |
Country Fair's not available yet but let
me show you what I've done to promote
| | 00:17 |
let's say, this book of mine.
First of all, this opens up just to the,
| | 00:23 |
this is the standard Amazon Kindle
window, down here under editorial
| | 00:28 |
reviews, I wrote all of this.
This is stuff that I did, And I gave it a
| | 00:33 |
product description.
This takes some time, to describe your work.
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Really write it carefully, and once
you've written it, be sure you have other
| | 00:42 |
people read it to make sure that you.
Getting your message across very, very,
| | 00:48 |
very concisely and clearly.
And then also I wrote a little note from,
| | 00:52 |
from the author.
This is just a personal note to potential readers.
| | 00:57 |
Make it personal and let them know how
passionate you are about a particular subject.
| | 01:03 |
The other thing that you can have a
little bit of control over is to get some reviews.
| | 01:08 |
Get it, actually get as many of these
customer reviews as you can.
| | 01:12 |
I'm going to confess, I know some of
these people.
| | 01:15 |
they're friends.
OK?
| | 01:17 |
Well, they're friends who saw the book.
It's not completely dishonest.
| | 01:22 |
And it's not uncommon that friends of the
authors go up and put reviews at least to
| | 01:27 |
get the ball rolling, you gotta get the
ball rolling, so those are a couple of
| | 01:31 |
things that I do.
The other thing in Amazon, let me click
| | 01:37 |
on my name and that's going to bring up
all my titles.
| | 01:41 |
Not only the ePub titles.
Over here on the right, you can see
| | 01:49 |
there's a whole page that you can set up
with your biography.
| | 01:51 |
It's all done in, in Amazon, it's very
simple.
| | 01:54 |
Amazon makes it really easy for you to
Interact with your with your readers to
| | 01:59 |
write a blog to get information up there.
So the other thing that I did that I
| | 02:05 |
found actually was very useful is I wrote
a press release.
| | 02:09 |
So let me find how to write a press
release.
| | 02:13 |
I just googled how to write a press
release and I came up with this,
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WikiHow.
There's a lot of sites that will help you
| | 02:21 |
put together a, a press release.
There's even people that will do it for
| | 02:25 |
you for a charge of course.
But it's pretty straight forward.
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Don't be intimidated by this, especially
if you go and.
| | 02:33 |
Read what people who know how to do this
how they explain it to you.
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How to write the headline, it should be
brief, clear to the point.
| | 02:42 |
These are lot's of it is common sense but
when you see it written down and kind of
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laid out for you like this it makes a big
difference.
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And I think you're going to find that you
probably to have.
| | 02:51 |
it, it in you to write a, a decent press
release.
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Now, who do you send the press release to
when you're done?
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That's another question.
I mean, I'd just send it out to anybody,
| | 03:00 |
that has some interest in the subject
matter that I've written about, and for
| | 03:03 |
the sauna book, or the sweat book, that
was pretty easy.
| | 03:08 |
I just Googled sauna and sweat and found
all these different, sites and places on
| | 03:12 |
the web.
And sent them an email explaining what I
| | 03:15 |
was doing and the press release and
people are kind of lazy so when they
| | 03:18 |
receive a press release it has all the
information there just the way it should
| | 03:22 |
be I mean that's why you should look and
see how to write a good press release
| | 03:26 |
often put it on their website just like
that, just like it is.
| | 03:32 |
And you're getting great, exposure that
way of a link to the Amazon site or
| | 03:37 |
Barnes and Noble or the Apple iBook
store, and they're doing the work for you.
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So, and then, if you have a blog, the
other thing to do, and if you don't have
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a blog you should have a blog, especially
if you're going to be doing this kind of publishing.
| | 03:51 |
if you have a blog, let's see here I
didn't even type my own name in there right.
| | 04:01 |
Let's get that right.
Okay, so I have a blog and I, of course,
| | 04:05 |
wrote about my book.
In this case it would have been the, the
| | 04:09 |
sauna book, and here's my blog on that
subject.
| | 04:13 |
And this is again picked up, and there's
the press release, too, from that book.
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And that goes out, and it's picked up,
and before you know it, you're going to
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start seeing your the, the traffic to the
Amazon site or wherever wherever you
| | 04:27 |
direct them, to increase and, and your
sales to increase, but you have to get
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the word out.
And there's a lot of ways of doing that.
| | 04:36 |
And especially nowadays with all this
electronic stuff, it doesn't cost you anything.
| | 04:42 |
So get out there, tell people about your,
your new ebook, and start generating
| | 04:46 |
some sales and have some fun, too.
It is a lot of fun.
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