Print Book Prep

Front Cover Partner

Open AI and create the front cover are 8.5 inches by 6.5 inches (save as jpg 300dpi), make sure the design covers the page.

Use one of the festival backgrounds and the two friends standing in front of it--even their feet are below the frame and large in the foreground with the festival in the background like the example below.

The main title is "To Festivals with Friends"--largest font

and the subtitle is the country and the festival name ("Mexico's Quinceanera")--medium font

These would be above the picture.

Below the title towards the bottom would be the names of authors and illustrators--smaller font

Story by Shannon Malia Heil

On the next line write

story by and illustrations on the same page.

When you are finished, create a similar vertical front cover (1024px x 648px) that will be used for the iBook.

Email both front cover to your WordPress and email the horizontal JPG to your partner so they can put it in the printed book and complete the checkpoint.

Book Partner

Download and use will use the template and insert your images and text into it as it will be used to print the book but follow these directions first:

Open all your group's original Illustration files in Illustrator and export them again as JPG, but this time when you export, choose 300dpi instead of 72dpi (screen) since for printing it needs to be at the 300dpi resolution. The images will become pixelated when you print if saved only as 72dpi. After you click export you will have the following JPG options and can change the resolution to Depth High and Resolution 300.

When you insert your images, you can just drag them into word and then double click the image and change the wrap text to in front of text so that you can move it around the page and resize it to fill the page. It is okay if a little of the image gets cropped off but make sure there are no white spaces showing around the image. Look at the finished example for reference.

Open up the CreateSpace template.

Begin pasting in pages in this order:

Title page (see example)

Text 1

Image 1 (corresponds with text 1)

and so on...

Refer here for text specifications

Title page:

Font: Arial

Main title 36

Subtitle 20

Author and illustrators 16

Text pages:

Font: Arial 16

Visually center the text between the top and bottom

Keep the text flush against the left margin

When finished, email the finished Word Doc book to mark.heil@yisseoul.org and also to smheil@gmail.com (Mrs. Heil). Also email it to your WordPress and post the link to the spreadsheet.