Formatting a Children's Picture Book using InDesign

[@christianekussner1212]

3:44 Start Indesign :)

[@mildredhighcock7333]

this is the best one I've found - the others are full of annoying characters... yours is straight to the point with all of the talking around it

[@EmmaRosenBooks]

Thank you 😊

[@HelenAMyers]

I Definitely like InDesign....Thank you so much.

[@TheMiriamLinnea]

dear emma, thank you so much for making this video. Helped me so much in my process of making my own book!

[@HelenAMyers]

Thank you.

[@jackiedragonfly2461]

Great tutorial - i wrote it all down. And subscribed to your channel! I like the speed you use to explain (not too fast, not too slow), you got a good voice for this stuff, and you stay on point. Well made!

[@EmmaRosenBooks]

Thank you!

[@a.harrispoems2738]

Glad I found your channel. Instantly subscribed. Just scrolled down your video list and it looks like you have so much useful stuff. The Kickstarter videos are going to be amazing. Thanks!

[@EmmaRosenBooks]

You're welcome! There's a playlist of all my indie publishing stuff on my main page

[@a.harrispoems2738]

@@EmmaRosenBooks Awesome, I’ll check it out.

[@cn8010]

Excellent video! Might you have a video demonstrating how to add pages numbers? Thank you.

[@EmmaRosenBooks]

It's in this video kzbin.info/www/bejne/imGYg6WGrLuMl7c

[@bridgetbick115]

This is exactly the information that I was looking for! Thank you!

[@bookformattting]

Great...Helpful...Thanks

[@truthseeker7169]

thank you for such a helpful tutorial!

[@theresahutch168]

Thank you so much! This was very helpful.

[@AngelSnowflakes]

thank you!

[@kuokngoam0047]

So amazing video

[@ayush-vardhan]

Great!! Helpfull..

[@rickharold7884]

Thx for InDesign tutorial.

[@Jamis2703]

Emma, will you be doing any videos on how to make a book cover for KDP by using Indesign?

[@EmmaRosenBooks]

I can ☺️

[@alalehmoghaddam4090]

Thank you 👍

[@AuthorAl]

Hi Emma, this is great. Ingram Spark wants 0mm on the gutter side and 3mm around the top, outside and bottom of each page. Did you do 3mm all around? The PDF it requires will be single pages. I'm assuming that it will trim appropriately depending regarding if it's a left or right page.

[@EmmaRosenBooks]

Hi, yeah I have 0mm on the gutter and 3mm elsewhere

[@kaylenedawnbuteaufitnessbu2282]

I'm almost finished with my graphic memoir of how I used my health and fitness knowledge to stop my mother with mild dementia from forgetting me, and it worked. I tricked her off caffeine, then no prescription meds, forced her/tricked her/incentivized her to drink water, kept her away from high fructose corn syrup and other poison, because they made her mean and delusional, and kept her away from gluten. I labeled layers by text vs. images, and then by page number, and all of that is linked through word. When I add in pages, it becomes all scrambled. I thought writing this memoir digitally would be faster, but I don’t think so anymore. I did spend time going through all of my layers in every document in my 250-page book, renumbering the layers according to the new page number, but now reviewing all of my journals, I need to add in more. Do you have any suggestions for organizing?

[@porterguitar]

haha nice video, umm question, is your main theme song the same as KARQ the streamers?

[@RadicalBotany1]

How did you create the digital copies of your illustrations? Did you scan them. In what format did you save them? Tiff? Jpeg? Did you place them as a rbg and then allow indesign to change them to cmyk as part of creating a pdf? I'd like to know. Was changing my illustrations from rbg to cmyk before placing them in Indesign. After creating a pdf to upload to Amazon Kdp, the illustrations turned out muddy. All are 300 dpi.

[@EmmaRosenBooks]

I scanned some and took photos of others. And yes RGB until I exported them as CMYK

[@ak-jd8nt]

can my title page be the same as the cover page?

[@EmmaRosenBooks]

It can be whatever you want it to be 😊

[@ak-jd8nt]

@@EmmaRosenBooks thank you

[@ak-jd8nt]

how to you create a single page file in indesign for ingram spark?

[@EmmaRosenBooks]

In the page setup you can choose double page or single page

[@eduardodossantos9348]

Emma, thanks for these kinds of videos they are very helpful. I have a question regarding the text. Are there any rules in regarding the space between paragraphs or sentences?

[@EmmaRosenBooks]

No, although it's more standardised in adults books

[@tinabattle832]

Hello, This video was very useful. Is there a way to bold your text or should you simply pick a different font? Thank you!

[@EmmaRosenBooks]

You can bold it in InDesign within the font box. Or try cmd B

[@virginiarinkel7544]

Do you know the program Query Tracker? An agent wants me to upload my picture book dummy in doc, docx, or pdf into the Query Tracker and the file size cannot exceed 2 MB or 2,000 KB. I would really like your thoughts if I'll be able to do this within the 2 MB. Thank you very much. I'm supposed to have this submitted by March 30, 2023.

[@EmmaRosenBooks]

No I haven’t heard of it. You could reduce the quality - they’ll still get the general idea?

[@TheMiriamLinnea]

Hi again Emma, thank you for your video. If you have a minute, Im curious: I am writing a book were I will include illustrations I have painted myself. My firth though were to use a high resolution printer to ensure 300 DPI, but now that I know you can change the image size in photoshoop I am wondering if this will work or not: 1. Take photos in good light with my iphone 13 - resolution 3024 x4032, PPI 72 2. Use photoshoop to change image size to PPI 300 3. Use this files in my book, which I will make in InDesign I am a total newbie to both photoshoop & InDesign to this might not be an option - Do you think it would work or am I missing something?

[@EmmaRosenBooks]

An iPhone 13 should have a good enough resolution for this. You don’t need to change the image size, just ensure it’s up to the job. Which it should be.

[@michelet791]

Brilliant tutorial as always. Can you save a downloaded font to indesign? I get nervous about which font I can use for a my self published book. Thanks

[@EmmaRosenBooks]

Yes. If you save the ttf file to your computer (I use a mac so it goes in the font book) or add it to your Adobe account. Once you've done that it should be there.

[@Jamis2703]

Wonderful Emma and thank you. I noticed you saved your images as PNG before inserting into indesign instead of JPG. Is this the best for publishing on KDP or ISpark? I have followed your tutorial and have nothing but you to thank for my first book but now find this one needs that CMYK to actually format! So, im looking into In Design now. Thank you

[@EmmaRosenBooks]

jpgs lose quality when you save them, so pngs are preferable x

[@QualityChildcare1]

If my book is 8.5x8.5 which one do I choose or number I type in on the custom page?

[@EmmaRosenBooks]

216mm square, and then your bleed margins x

[@ak-jd8nt]

Have you ever imported an entire manuscript from pages into indesign?

[@ak-jd8nt]

do i format my book in pages before importing it into indesign and then format it there again? i am sooo confused!

[@EmmaRosenBooks]

Hi, no you can go straight into InDesign. I've just used pages in the past, but InDesign is a lot better for all sorts of reasons, mainly the CMYK settings