Day Two of Rounded Text Bubbles

Today was a repeat of yesterday — making rounded text frames. I didn’t find a way to transform all of the text frames globally, so I edited them one by one. Boring work. I’m guessing there’s a quick way to make changes to all of the text frames at once, I don’t have the time to look for it. I’m ready to move on to the next phase of this book. Funny, but I don’t even know what that’s going to be yet. All I can think of at this moment rounded corners.

I do think the pages are looking more organic that the square rectangles. Here’s a screenshot of how the pages look in InDesign.

More of the Same but with Friendlier Rounded Text Bubbles

Today I spent my Art time in InDesign fine tuning the images and text. Several images were too low-res to be used for the print version of my book. I had to find the PSD files I used to create the PNGs, and increase the canvas size for several images. As usual I couldn’t find the original PSD files. That was a pain. Whiles was futzing around I got the feeling that the rectangular text boxes were a little to formal looking for a children’s book, even unfriendly. I started tinker with the border radius and ended up with .5 inches, which I think creates a curvaceous, inviting impression. Here’s an example.