Hi there! In today's tutorial we're going to learn
how to make a book layout in Adobe InDesign, so let's get started.
I'm going to click on 'create new' here to make a new document.
Now I'm going to explain every setting here, as you need to know their functionality,
particularly when you're creating a book layout, so first of all, let's change the units to inches.
You have other options as well, to choose from, but when it comes to book design,
the two most common units used are 'inches' and 'millimeters.'
Now at this point the orientation is set to landscape, but then it all depends upon the
dimensions I set here, so for example, my book is going to be 6 inches wide, and 9 inches tall,
and the moment I set it, you will find that the orientation automatically changes to portrait,
because the height is more than the width, so obviously it has to be portrait.
'Facing pages', refers to whether or not
you'd like your document to be presented as a two-page spread.
For this tutorial, we'll do so, however,
this option can also be changed after you've created your document.
In the pages section we are at liberty to enter the number of pages here, but usually while
composing a book, we're not aware of the number of pages, so for now, let's keep it two pages.
We can very easily add more pages later in the document. We'll use primary text
frames to help make our text flow from page to page, so make sure this is toggled on.
If you forget to do it while creating your document, you can always add this later, as well.
Start number is particularly used when you divide your book into multiple chapters,
so for example, your book has a lot of images and text, and to avoid having a big-sized document,
you'd rather divide your book into sets of three chapters, or four chapters,
so that the document size does not really make your computer processing slow, and when you're
doing that, you'd know from which page your next chapter in the next document should start,
and that page number would come here, and when you add automatic insertion of page numbers in
your new document, it will then not start from page one, but the page number you assign here.
Alright, so column gutter is the space between two columns in the document,
and I'd like my document to have two columns, so let's change it to two here.
Margins of the borders are the space around your page,
because your text will never start from the edge of the page,
because it would look ugly, so there has to be some margin specified by you beforehand.
At the moment the margins are linked, so when you change one, all four will follow, but if you want
to update the margin of any one here, or even more than one, click on the link icon to unlink it,
and now you can set individual margins of all four sides, and this goes for bleed and slug, as well.
Now bleed, as ominous as it sounds, refers to the area of your work that will be trimmed off,
for example let's say, you have a layout where you want a full page image, with no visible margin,
you'll need to extend the work into the bleed area, so when the work is trimmed,
things will look as intended.
We'll use bleed in the document at a later stage, so let's keep it zero for now.
The slug area is just one of these optional page marks. Essentially the area is located
outside of the normal printing boundaries, and it contains information about the printing job,
so when a document goes to the printing press, there are a few technical marks printed outside
of the document area, and these are important for high quality printing.
We don't really need any slug for this document, so let it stay zero, and hit create.
So our document has two columns like we've set, and let me show you from where you can make
changes to your document, so let's go to file, and then document setup.
Here you'll find the settings that were there in the 'create a new document' panel,
so after your document is created, if you want to make changes
to the document layout, this is the place you need to come to.
On the right, you'll find the pages panel. If you don't see it there, you can always go to window,
and then pages. The shortcut to show it is Command F12 on a Mac, or Ctrl F12 on a PC.
This is a very important panel when you are creating your book layout particularly,
as a lot of work will happen here.
At the very top of the pages panel, we have our master pages.
You will likely see 'none' and 'A master' the defaults,
so what are master pages and why are they so useful?
Think of it as your book format template, so master page, or pages won't print.
Instead, InDesign will use the master pages as a set of rules to apply to your active pages.
You don't necessarily have to use master pages. By default, all your pages have A master applied
to them, but if you don't want one to apply to a particular page, you can always choose 'none.'
Let's start out by editing A master, so double-click on A master to start editing it.
If you want to double check ,if you're inside the A master, and not one of your active pages, you
can check the bottom of the screen. This drop-down tells you which page you're currently viewing.
Using the current selection tool, when you click on the master pages,
you'll find they already have the primary text frame applied,
because we checked the primary text frame box when we created the document, remember!
The primary text frame option in InDesign automatically creates one text frame
on each page, sized to match the margins.
You can always drag in to shorten the text frame, should you want it.
Now let's add page numbers to our document. Adding page numbers is
not like we add page numbers on MS Word, it's slightly different, but very simple.
Let's grab the text tool, and make a text box in here, and then go to type,
and then insert special character, and then markers, and then current page number.
The moment you do that, you'll find the letter A assigned to it,
and if your master has two pages, you'll have to make the text box, and assign page numbers on both
pages, so at this point, let me also tell you that you'll not always need two pages in the master,
but for book making mostly two pages are used for more refined setting, so let's make another text
box on the right page of the A master, and then go to type, and then insert special character,
and then markers, and then current page number.
Now let's go to our document page, and you shall find the page numbers populating there,
so when we add another page, using the create new page button,
a third page will be added, along with the page number.
Actually, let's right-align the page number in the master. Oh oh... the toolbar above is not
appearing, so let's go to window, and then workspace, and click on essential classic,
and now you'll find a new toolbar above, so with the cursor still in the page number section,
just click on the right alignment here, and your page number will be right-aligned.
Let's go to the document to check the alignment of our pages. Perfect! Let me increase the margin
we have set, so you can learn how to realign the primary text frame to the new margins,
so let's go to file, and then document setup, and increase the margin to 0.5 inch, and hit okay.
Now click on the primary text frame, and using the corners, resize the frame as per the margins
for both the pages, and let's also bring the page number text boxes a little closer to the margins.
Now let's go to the document, to find the changes reflecting on every page.
At this point, let's add another master, so to do that, let's right-click on our A master here,
and go to new master. By default it becomes the B master, and let's base it on A master for now.
By basing it on A master, all the settings of A master shall be
copied to the B master, something we can further customize, so let's hit okay.
Now you can see the two B master pages have the letter A sitting on them, signifying
that A master settings have been applied to them. Let's change the B master a little.
We don't want any text on the first page here, so let's click to select the primary text frame on
page one of B master, and hit delete. And let's go to the second B master page, and let's say
that I want my text frame to be shorter here, so let's drag the frame to make it shorter.
I've made it shorter, because I want to add a heading to this, so let's grab the text tool,
and make a text box, and type in 'chapter one.'
I'm going to change the font to 'Times New Roman', and size to 24 points,
and also center-align my heading.
Let me remind you that we're making these changes to the B master, and not to the document pages
yet, so now we need text to be added to our document, so let me take you to a site
lipsum.com, so it is lipsum.com.
Here you can generate text, and you can also specify the number of paragraphs, or words, or
bytes, or lists you want, and it will generate it for you, so let's say we want 200 paragraphs,
and click on generate lorem ipsum, and you'll find 200 paragraphs generated in a flash,
so select them using the mouse, and hit Command C on a Mac, or Ctrl C on a PC, to copy the text,
and then get back to InDesign, and this time we're not going to paste the text to the masters.
We'll come to the first page, grab the text tool, and click once on the top of our text column,
and then right-click, and select paste, and you'll find how InDesign generates the pages
automatically for us, and the text is smoothly flowing, because of the primary text frame,
and like I mentioned earlier, by default all of the pages have A master applied to them,
so let's say our chapter one starts from page one here, so what we can do is, we can go to
the thumbnail of page one, and right-click, and then select apply master to pages, and from the
pop-up we can choose which master to apply to the pages, or we can simply click on the B master.
Hold and drag it to the thumbnail of page one, and voila! B master is applied to the first page,
along with the settings of the B master, so you see it's that simple.
Let's click the thumbnail of page 15, and then add our B master here as well,
because we want chapter 2 to start from page 15, so double-click on page 15 to show it on screen,
and you'll find that the heading shows chapter one here, it's because whatever was there in B master,
you just copied here, but the problem is that we want to change it to chapter two, and not chapter
one, and when you click on it to make the changes, it just wouldn't select the text, because it has
been copied from the master, so to override the master settings, we need to hold Shift
and Command on a Mac, or Shift and Ctrl on a PC, and then click on it, and it will get selected,
and then you can make the necessary changes, so let's change it to chapter two.
Now let's say, we want an image to be added to one of the pages, so let's add an image to page 24
here. I'm going to grab the rectangle frame tool, and make a rectangle on top of the text here,
from margin to margin, since the image is towards the inside of the page.
Now let's go to file, and then place, and locate the image on the computer.
Now you see the image has been perfectly placed here, but there is text behind the image,
so we need to fix that, so let's go to window, and then text wrap.
Now here you have a few options to choose from, depending upon the requirement.
At this point, when I hover my cursor to this icon here,
it says no text wrap, and that's the current setting.
The option on the right says 'wrap around bounding box',
so let's click on that, and now the text has jumped the image, and as you move your image,
along with the bounding box, which is the frame here, the text wraps itself.
Here you can try other text wrapping options as well, and if you look closely to the icons,
they are self-explanatory, and you should be able to understand the
situations where you'll need to use them just by looking at them.
Also, you have the padding option for extra spaces from the bounding box,
and much like I demonstrated earlier with the margins, this one also has the link option
that you can click to unlink, and just choose one side, or more individually to update the padding.
We can even increase the bounding box to cover both the columns, so you see when I
expanded the bounding box, the image stayed in its previous size, so to make it behave,
we need to right-click on the frame, and go to fitting, and then hit fit content to frame.
The content here is our image, and the frame is the bounding
box. Actually this is the perfect time to introduce bleed, so let's go to file,
and then document setup, and set the bleed to 0.125, and hit okay,
and you shall see a red border all around, so if you have images printed, and extended to the edges
of the pages, it's always best to have the images stretched to the bleed, so that when the printer
chops off the edges, it gives you a clean print, without any untidy white lines around the corners,
so let's move our image to the bleed, and stretch it all the way to the center of the page.
Next, I'm going to talk about the paragraph styles. Paragraph styles are nothing,
but templates of settings that can be applied to the text of your choice,
so the best way to do it is to first apply the settings to your text, and then style them.
For example we have this chapter 2 text, which is our heading, so let's select it,
and let's go to window, and then styles, and paragraph styles.
In the pop-up, click the small plus button to create a new style, and rename it 'heading.'
Now double-click on the small area left to the word heading, to open the settings panel.
We already know that our heading had 'Times New Roman', as the font, and the font size was set to
24 points, however, we can always top it up with other settings from here,
so let's go to basic character formats tab, and change the font to 'Futura.'
Let's also check the underline box, and hit okay,
and you'll find the settings being applied to our heading.
Now this 'heading' paragraph style has become more like a template
that we can apply to any text we want. All we need to do is select the text,
and then click on the heading paragraph style, and mission accomplished!
Similarly, let's select the text of our document, and make another paragraph style,
and double-click on the style, and rename it 'text.'
Here I'm going to change the font to 'Arial',
and hit okay, and you'll see that the highlighted text changed to 'Arial.'
To select the entire text, hit Command A on a Mac, or Ctrl A on a PC, to select all,
and then just click the 'text' paragraph style once, and the style shall be applied instantly.
Similarly, let's select chapter one heading, and click on the 'heading' paragraph style,
and there you go, the style has changed to the paragraph style settings.
Now let me show you how the book option works with InDesign, so a lot of times
if your content is too heavy, and loaded with images, and your book has too many pages, it
is always best practice to divide your book into chapters, and then combine them to make a book,
so for example, let's go to file, and then new, and then document.
Here I'm going to choose inches as the units, and hit create,
because the rest of the settings are pretty much the same, as our existing document.
Now close this document, and save it with the name chapter 3 to 4, and hit save.
Let's also close our existing document, and locate it on your computer,
and change its name to chapter 1 to 2, and then create another document much like earlier,
and hit create, and close it, and save it with the name chapter 5 to 6,
so now we have divided our book into three individual pieces, or documents.
Now I'm gonna go to file, and then new, and this time I'm gonna select book, and in the pop-up,
I'm going to save my book as 'the odyssey.' Suppose that's the name of my book,
and then hit save, and it brings me to this screen.
You see this small panel with the title of our book, and there is a small plus
button at the bottom of the panel, just click on it, and then in the pop-up,
click to select all three different documents, or pieces of the book.
You'll have to hold Command on a Mac, or Ctrl on a PC, to make the selection here,
and then hit open. And there you go, this is our book, open with three different documents
that are basically different chapters of our book, so I can easily click on each document,
and make changes as per the requirement, and it will all be saved within the book.
Doing this will not only solve my problem of a slow computer, but I will also be able to
manage my documents with much ease. When you go to the location where you've saved the documents,
you'll find that the book is saved with the indb extension, whereas our documents
are saved with indd extension. That's how you can differentiate between them.
Alright guys, that brings us to the close of the session,
and it's time for a short break, so I'll see you in just a bit.
Good bye!