Illustrating Children's Picture Books with PowerPoint
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Welcome to my course, Illustrating Children's Picture Books with PowerPoint.
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Hello,
Welcome to my course, Illustrating Children's Picture Books with PowerPoint.
Hello,
Welcome to my course, Illustrating Children's Picture Books with PowerPoint.
In this course, I explain how to use Microsoft PowerPoint to illustrate a children's picture book. The first third of the course demonstrates the entire process using illustrations found on the Internet. The second half explains how to use PowerPoint to draw any shape. The third part, the original beginning of the course, explains how to create a simple children's book.
Learn to illustrate children's picture books even if you can't draw.
My name is Brian Jackson. I'm the instructor of the course. I'm also the writer of over one dozen books, publisher of well over 100 Amazon Kindle e-books and instructor with almost 40 Udemy courses to my name.
In this course, I demonstrate using Microsoft PowerPoint to create a children's picture book. More specifically, I address the following topics in detail:
How to configure Microsoft PowerPoint to output images in 300 DPI resolution.
How to use free images from the Internet to illustrate your story.
How to use free images from the Microsoft Office 365 resource library to illustrate your story.
How to use Microsoft PowerPoint to draw any free form image.
Learn to create professional quality children's picture books the easy way.
I am directing this course to writers new to Amazon illustrating children's picture books and those old timers wanting to brush up their illustration and PowerPoint skills.
Whichever is the case, I look forward to joining you on a journey through the lectures ahead.
I'll see you in the classroom,
Brian
What's inside
Learning objectives
- Use microsoft powerpoint to illustrate your children's picture book.
- Use free images off the internet to illustrate your children's picture book.
- Draw your own simple composite illustrations for your children's picture book.
- Add text to your children's picture book to tell your story.
- Use microsoft powerpoint to illustrate your children's picture book.
- Use free images off the internet to illustrate your children's picture book.
- Draw your own simple composite illustrations for your children's picture book.
- Add text to your children's picture book to tell your story.
Syllabus
Introduction
In this lecture, I introduce to the course and its structure.
Download the personal resource library I build during this course from the lecture Resources. I also include the source to "Roscoe Goes Swimming".
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Syllabus
In this lecture, I introduce to the course and its structure.
Download the personal resource library I build during this course from the lecture Resources. I also include the source to "Roscoe Goes Swimming".
In this lecture, I explain how to watch Udemy courses fast and to record notes on the timeline along the way.
In this lecture, I provide an introduction to PowerPoint by showing the screen layout and how to navigate the program.
In this lecture, I demonstrate how to create graphic elements and manipulate and configure them.
This lecture discusses how to upgrade your PowerPoint export resolution from 96 dpi to 300 dpi.
The process is exactly the same for setting each version of PowerPoint, you simply need to choose the correct directory
In this lecture, I explain how to set your book page size in PowerPoint.
In this lecture, I discuss searching the internet for free images and using my favorite site, Pixabay.
In this lecture, I explain how to load and image from the Internet onto the background of your page.
In this lecture, I explain how to use PowerPoint native primitive shapes to construct your own background.
This is a continuation of the previous lecture.
In this lecture, I demonstrate using a mostly white page background with some illustrations on it.
In this lecture, I dive deep into layers and element stacking order by creating a more sophisticated tree.
In this lecture, I provide an overview of the Insert->Icons menu focusing on using stickers as foreground illustrations for your books.
In this lecture, I demonstrate constructing a cartoon character from library resources and coloring it.
In this lecture, I demonstrate all the basic functionality of text in PowerPoint along with three ways to insert text.
In this lecture, I explain how to keep your text readable when merging it with graphics.
In this video, I demonstrate loading a free font off the DaFont Internet site and using it in PowerPoint.
In this lecture, I suggest the technique of running text around images to outline them. Trust me, it's fun!
In this lecture, I demonstrate how to make circular and wavy text using the text transformation tool.
In this lecture, I discuss methods for creating the individual scenes in your picture book.
In this lecture, I demonstrate adding a book cover, title page and copyright page to the front of your book.
In this lecture, I demonstrate adding optional book title headers and page number footers to each page.
In this lecture, I demonstrate how to export your book in JPEG and PDF format for distribution and publication.
In this lecture, I provide a look ahead to the next course dedicated to self-publishing your book on Amazon in Kindle e-book and print on demand (POD) paperback formats.
In this article, I plead for a review. Please leave a review to support this course. Thanks, ---Brian
In this series of lectures, I recreate my bouquet illustration beginning with a leaf.
In this lecture, I continue constructing to bouquet by constructing the flower.
In this lecture, I combine multiple copies of my leaf and flower to create a bouquet. I also shade the elements.
In this lecture, I add the frame and background to my bouquet image.
In this video, I create a mushroom from primitive shapes.
In this lecture, I try putting Busy Bee in a space suit for the next book.
In this lecture, I demonstrate how to create a character by duplicating the Busy Bee Office 365 resource using vector primitives.
In this lecture, I demonstrate copying and pasting text from Microsoft Word to Microsoft PowerPoint for layout and final presentation.
A deprecated video from the original course.
In this lecture, I reiterate one of the most important points I made in the course at the very beginning.
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Delve into the guided tutorials provided in this course to enhance your skills in using PowerPoint for children's book illustration.
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- Explore the tutorials thoroughly
- Follow the instructions step-by-step
- Practice the techniques demonstrated
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