How To Format Files For Printing (Children's Books & more) • BLEED & MARGINS in PROCREATE!

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Sooo, I may or may not have found a sneaky way to create guides for margins and bleed in Procreate!
Exciting, right?
If those two words don't quite make sense to you, don't worry - in this video, we'll learn how to format files for printing, from the basic printing lingo (margins, bleed, gutter), to organizing pages & spreads and even creating formatting templates in Procreate. Everything is split into chapters, so feel free to pick and choose what you want to learn about :)
If you're fairly new to digital art, you might want to start by watching this video in which I'll tell you all about pixels, dimensions, and resolution so that you can confidently pick a canvas size for your next digital art creation: • How To Choose A Canvas...
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:40 Margins
01:50 Bleed
03:11 Gutter
03:46 Pages and Spreads (Book Layout)
05:18 Creating Procreate Templates
11:27 Exporting your book as a pdf
KDP guidelines: kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/top...
IngramSparks guidelines: www.ingramspark.com/hubfs/dow...
My drawing tools:
• 12.9-inch iPad Pro, 3rd gen (2018)
• Apple Pencil
• Procreate 5x
How To Format Files For Printing (Children's Books & more) • BLEED & MARGINS in PROCREATE!
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One of the clearest and best explanations I've ever seen.

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Thanks for putting this video out. As a person/artist that works full time at a printshop. I can't tell you how many people I have had to walk through how to do this.

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I have even more respect for picture book illustrators now. That’s a lot of factors to think about. Especially the cropping of your work to sell books at different sizes.

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Thank you for the best description of bleed and how it exists alongside margin as a concept!

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Margin! This was so helpful! I’ve spent many years doing page layout and design in InDesign and just started playing with Procreate and I was struggling to figure out how to prep files!This info will be so useful if I ever get back into printing my work, thank you!

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I'm so glad it could help, Katie! I've been using InDesign for years too and the lack of rulers in Procreate was driving me CRAZY haha

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This was such a helpful tutorial. I use procreate for creating my books and I have been taking an additional and unnecessary step using canvas to save the file as "pdf print" thinking that if I saved the file as pdf in procreate, the image quality for printing was going to be poor. I always learn something new watching your videos so thank you for taking your time to provide these tutorials.

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Thank you sooo much for this tutorial! I have always had trouble with the printing part, because I did not exactly know how much space is needed for each page. But you have explained it so well and so clear... just AWESOME! Thank you and keep up the good work! Your other videos are also awesome and very inspiring! :)

[@GenevievesDesignStudio]

I'm so glad the video was helpful, Andrei! and thank you for the kind words 🤍

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I have a couple of days off next week and I plan on making some holiday cards. I’m going to have to just doodle until I hit upon something I like but I’m excited to have this resource. Great timing for this tutorial Genevieve! Thank you.

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Thank you so much for the video! I appreciate you giving us access to the files too! I purchased and feel so confident and excited for my first book :)

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Thanks for taking the time to make a really nice, helpful video! Your teaching style is really clear, and I love how this video contains all the basic information that I have been needing to format my children's book. I've come back to this video so many times! Also, just a side note, you have a beautiful voice❤

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Thank you for this video! I’m a first time book illustrator and this has helped me tremendously.

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Wow wow wow! Best tutorial ever! You explained margins so well! I’m going to have a crack at it myself first and if I get stuck I’ll happily buy your tutorial package. Thanks again!

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Thank you so much, I'm working on my first children's book and this was soooo helpful!

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Finally! Someone who knows how to explain all of this bleed, margin stuff! Thank you.

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Oooh, that's exciting! Let me know what you think 🤍

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omg after watching hundreds of videos all day this has been the most helpful! I was starting to lose faith that I could actually design my book but now I actually understand what I'm doing 😅 Quick question, do these guides match up with the ones that Ingramspark uses? And do you have a video on what the brushes in your pack are? I'm trying to collect a heap of new brushes for my book illustrations

[@GenevievesDesignStudio]

That's awesome! :D The last I checked, the guides do mach up with most IS and KDP book sizes. As for the brushes, you can see them in action in this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hoPFfKCgdpxgZs0

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I'm so glad you liked it, Sarisha! Wishing you a wonderful publishing journey 🤍

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Margin! Wow, this taught me so much I didn’t know and made more sense than any other margin video I’ve watched! Thank you!

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This is actually helpful. I'm planning to illustrate a children's book that my teacher wrote but I don't know what the canvas size for the art needs to be and what errors that I might be encountering when doing so. Thankfully, I found this video to be very useful so thank you.

[@GenevievesDesignStudio]

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Hello again Genevieve, thank you for making the templates for the book sizes too! I had to get your pack and I am now doing a second edition of my book on Kdp as when I tried to get the bleed all the way to the edge of the page it always got rejected and now I see why when I put your template over my work it was cutting off the text. Thank you for making this video and putting it in plain English as the other sites and videos just get too complicated. I can’t say thank you enough! Your brushes are adorable and very high quality! I’ll be using them too! My book will finally have that professional look and feel, thanks to you! You’re the best!

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