The Final Five Pages of My Children's Picture Book

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I’ve placed all of the images into my 40-page picture book. There are 10 more pages that I didn’t account for when I started this project: six pages of front matter and four pages of back matter. That’s a lot of white pages to fill with details like the title page, copyright page, frontispiece, end notes, and a blank final page for the publisher’s barcode.

I’m still tweaking the text bubbles…some of them are ugly and distracting. And, now that I have the whole piece completed, I can see that some images, even after my adjustments, still need some more room between the subjects and the outside cut line.

Here’s a screenshot of the final five pages in InDesign. Next step, after a few final touches to the text and crowed images, will be figuring out how to generate a publishable PDF.

Another Day, Another Inch

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I got lucky today — I was able to find one of my original images hidden away on my iPad. It was a fairly large file: 300 MB. I transferred the file from my iPad to my desktop computer by uploading the image to iCloud. My internet connection has a sluggish upload speed of 1 MB per second. That 300 MB file took five minutes to upload to iCloud, and another minute to download from iCloud to my desktop computer. I hate the Cloud. Such are the miseries of living in the First World.

For this page I divided the text into three bubbles. I avoided using comic-style bubbles with tails by positioning the text over Jimmy and Buddy so that it’s clear who’s doing the talking. I hope it’s clear.