Are you ready to turn your book idea or raw manuscript into a stunning, professionally designed book ready for print? Whether you are starting completely from scratch or looking to polish and fix an existing file, this class gives you the practical skills and guidance to create industry standard publications. In our lessons, we focus primarily on Adobe InDesign, the premier professional tool for interior layout and book production. You will learn: • Master pages, margins, grids, and professional document setup • Advanced typesetting, paragraph and character styles, and typographic hierarchy • Handling complex layouts, image placement, tables, and book organization • Integrating Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator seamlessly for covers, figures, and spot graphics • Troubleshooting common layout mistakes, reflowing text, and cleaning up legacy files In addition to design mechanics, I guide you through the technical self publishing process. We will cover preparing pre press, print ready PDF files specifically formatted for Amazon KDP, IngramSpark, or independent commercial offset printers. We will address bleed, color spaces (CMYK vs RGB), spine width calculations, and barcode placement so your book prints cleanly without rejection. Every session is personalized to your individual project, whether you are publishing fiction, non fiction, photography monographs, poetry, or children's books. Beginners learning InDesign for the first time and experienced creators looking for advanced book techniques are both welcome.

Adobe Illustrator is perfect for illustrations, comics, graphic design, Endisign perfect for mounting books and comics. Premiere pro perfect for video editing ... As long as you master the tools of course 👍🏽😌

• As a professional graphic designer/artist you will need to know more than the basics. With over 20 years experience I can take you through the necessary levels to enhance your personal skills and experience to be able to hit any project running. • In Indesign I can teach you very technical skills to enable you to create fast and accurate layouts and to utilise automation to speed up page creation • In Illustrator I can teach you how to create interesting and complicated grahics and logos • In Photoshop I will teach you about cutouts, channels, masking, colour correction, montaging, and general real world retouching suitable for everyday print and web requirements.