![]() ![]() And the good news is that it will probably be much simpler to make. If this pretty much covers what you need then it sounds like an iBook is right for your idea. Read aloud narration, and word highlighting (not currently supported by Book Creator).Basic interactivity such as touchable areas.Let’s take a look at what you get with an iBook: With an app you can do pretty much anything you can think of (fantastic), but with iBooks you get lots of reading related features for free (also fantastic!). Once you've filled in all the initial stuff about language choice and orientation, you come to this screen.We love apps and we love iBooks – after all Book Creator is an app that makes iBooks! When you have all your pages saved, open Comic Creator again. If you've already made a paperback of your book, take the cover you designed and resize it to Kindle dimensions. Next, get your cover image ready, because Comic Creator will demand that you insert a cover image before you can move beyond the first step. This makes it easier to find them, and easier to load them into Comic Creator. They will then arrange themselves neatly in alphabetical order. ![]() It will make your job much easier if you name each file alphabetically. Let the eye connect the lines.Īs you complete each Kindle page, save it as a picture file in yet another clearly marked folder. Suggest the line on the left and right hand pages and fill the gutter section with colour. Tip: design your spreads so there are no hard lines to be connected across the gap. ![]() The spreads required a little more work as the gap between them (where the paperback's central gutter had been) had to be joined together. The single pages sat side by side as single pages. So Andrew resized the pages and sat them side by side on his template. Each page has to fit within that 1280 x 800 pixels rectangle. Word wants the images inserted as separate pages, even when they are double-page spreads.īut the Kindle cares nothing for that, nor for bleeds or gutters. They were all saved as separate, left and right pages, because we'd used Microsoft Word to make the paperback. He then used the programme to open the huge jpegs, the ones four times the size needed. So Andrew sprang once more to the graphics programme of his choice and created a blank background or canvas, to Kindle's dimensions, and 300 dpi. The higher the resolution - the more dots per inch there are to begin with - the less difference this shrinkage will make to the final image. Because your image will shed pixels as you shrink it. This means, of course, that you are going to have to resize your images again.Īlso, Andrew is not 'aving that 96 dpi (dots per inch). Landscape 1280 pixels wide 800 pixels high 96 dpi Portrait 800 pixels wide 1280 pixels high 96 dpi Comic Creator assumes that you want your comic locked into whichever format you choose - unless you click this dot.ĭown at the bottom, it gives the Kindle dimensions for your chosen format. The other boxes are fairly self-explanatory, though 'unlocked' refers to the abilty to read your Kindle in landscape or portrait format. There's a similar feature in Kids' Book Creator. It isn't supported on all models of Kindle but you might want to add it. 'Kindle panel view' is a feature built into the programme which allows you to tap your screen and zoom in to a particular frame or speech bubble, making it easier to read. You have to click on the features that you want in your Kindle ebook. When you open Comic Creator, you see this screen: We tried both and, in the end, used Comic Creator, both because Olsen recommended it and because it seemed easier. They make it easy to turn a book full of illustrations into an e-book. They are both free programmes which you download to your computer. ![]() To turn these pictures into an e-book, we had to decide between two programmes: Secondly, as equally huge jpegs, and finally as jpegs resized to fit our Createspace paperback. Once as huge graphics programmes, with all their layers, at four times the size they needed to be. He had saved all these pages several times over, in different folders. Illustrator Andrew Price had already used a graphics programme to produce all the pages, with the text embedded in the images. Once again, we found How To Format Your Picturebook For Createspace Without The Frustration by A. This month, I'll tell you how we also published the book as a Kindle ebook. Last month I blogged about how to publish a picture book with Createspace. ![]()
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