Thank you so much. I kept having the issue of errors in my kdp manuscript upload (I've done them before, but not using affinity publisher). My dumb self was exporting all spreads instead of all pages 🤦♂ Watching your video made me realize that.
Purchased Publisher a few days ago at half price for this very purpose. So your video is extremely timely for me. I already had Designer. Next time will get Photo.
How easy could this be? Thank you for this video. I write, ghost write, and do layouts for clients. I found Affinity Publisher nearly 2 years ago just as it launched and love what it does, especially for the cost. I now have all three and need to learn more about how to create good covers that compete with what is out there from larger publishers. If you have some of these videos, I'd love to see them. You do well in the way that you instruct, taking the right amount of time to let someone follow along. I appreciate that very much!!
Great video. You have made Publisher much more user friendly. Since this was just the basics, would you be willing to make a video showing how to bring in images and place text around them or other more complex things? Thanks
Thank you so much. Your instruction is clear, simple and much easy to follow, compared to many TH-camrs that I've watched. You earned my subscribe and looking forward to the next video: maybe how to create a simple notebook cover?
@@DreamCreativeBee I’ve actually just purchased Affinity Designer and Publisher a few days ago and started learning them from scratch. Glad to run in with your channel. Very helpful. Thank you.
Gr8 video, and just what I needed. Thank you. New to this even though I bought all 3 when it 1st launched. I just knew I would benefit by having them. So I have played around with them. Managed to create some images but don't really remember how I did them 🤔. I will definitely be following you and looking out for your other videos. Would u kindly consider a couple of suggestions please? 1. I find the black n white screen very difficult to work with myself and even more so when watching videos. V small and v challenging to follow the mouse. So would u plse take a look at using the Grey screen. I only recently discovered it, and has made things so much less if a strain on my eyes. 2. This is about the speed of the movement of the mouse. I think it is difficult when u know what u r doing and where u want to go, to move at a speed that newbies can follow u. It is easier to follow it on the grey screen, but I hve very little idea of where things r and what I'm looking for so a slower speed wud help a lot. I wonder too if there is an option to use a bigger size mouse and even a different colour. That wud b great especially for those teaching. I know the company is open to suggestions so I might find out how to make that suggestion. N maybe u wud too, if u think it's a useful idea. Thanks again for your video and look forward to the others you spoke of. 👌🏻😊
Hi I dragged out the Table to 42 but then when i tried to delete I couldn't, so i just dragged to 21, then I extended the 21 to the bottom of the page with the Move Tool, and everything looks fine...so far..xx
HI Kerie, when asked if your book is a bleed or not ...does that just mean your interior or both interior AND cover? for what if your cover is a bleed and the interior is not?
Glad it was helpful! You do the exact same thing in the video. Then you export as PDF ready for them to upload that to their digital app like Good Notes and One Notes. Remember you need to add links etc.
@@DreamCreativeBee Thank you!! I should have said to be printed. I think it’s the bleed line but I didn’t want a full square around each just on the corners.
@Noras Cove I think you mean that you want like tick box squares at the beginning of the line or end of the line. If that was the case and I was using tables. I would have 3 columns. The first column would have all the borders select and be the small square. The second column would have only the left side border selected and be the smallest width as I would be using that for the space between the tick box square and the line to write on. The third column would only have the bottom border selected and be longer in width than the others. Also I would add an extra row in between to give a space. I think it would probably be quicker with using shapes rather that 3 column tables. If I don't want bleed I would keep everything in the margin. Hope that helps. I can create a video to show you what I mean.
Great question but not simple to answer. I think if you are creating more coloring books and activity books then affinity designer would be my choice as you can use artboards as your pages. However if you are creating planners and diaries then affinity publisher would be my first choice. If I could only choose one it would be affinity designer.
Thank you so much for this! One question.. I'm having a hard time with my pages looking centered on KDP. I have all of my margins set to .375 in Publisher, and everything clicks into the center. However, when I upload it to KDP, it isn't centered and it's driving me crazy! Any tips?? Thanks so much!
I bet it is driving you nuts. I would actually increase your inner margin to at least 0.5. That way it should move your content further to the edge making it look more centred. Which will create an optical illusion and also give your customers more space to write in when they are near the gutter of the book (aka inner margin). Hope that helps.
I hit Ctrl+W and it doesn't get rid of anything. I'm asked if I want to save my changes and then it will close the project?! Also, when you are getting rid of the borders, you say something like "you go here and select this", but despite watching that part over and over, I can't see where you "go here" nor what you selected. Totally lost me. I was so thrilled to get the table up with the lines as I'm brand new to affinity publisher, but I guess I need to figure it out somehow.
Sorry for the delayed response. So pleased that you have created your tables and making progress. Affinity publisher is such as powerful program and a good tool to have. On a Mac, it is Ctrl + W, if you are a Windows user if you go to view and Preview Mode it should give you the shortcut key that gives you the option to remove all your guides, etc. *"Also, when you are getting rid of the borders, you say something like "you go here and select this"*". I select the Thumbnail of the page where I want to get rid of the master and then right click on the thumbnail and select clear master. Hope this helps.
Thanks for this video. I just got affinity designer so I'm learning how to use it. Do you think that by having affinity designer, you don't need to use Canva if you use creative fabrica for all your graphics and designs? I'm trying to see which software is best to use to create my books. Thanks for sharing.
You still need to compile your book. Affinity Designer is great for creating and editing images, creating covers, creating tables for logbooks and journals but only one page at a time. You can't do 120 pages in Affinity Designer in one go or compile 120. So you can create your images etc and then either use Canva, Google Slides, Keynote, PowerPoint or Affinity Publisher to create the whole book. I hope I explained it clearly.
This is an excellent video. I have subscribed. Thank you.
Welcome aboard!
Thank you so much. I kept having the issue of errors in my kdp manuscript upload (I've done them before, but not using affinity publisher). My dumb self was exporting all spreads instead of all pages 🤦♂ Watching your video made me realize that.
Brilliant, glad I could help.
Purchased Publisher a few days ago at half price for this very purpose. So your video is extremely timely for me. I already had Designer. Next time will get Photo.
Glad it was helpful! I love all the affinity suite and can't wait for Publisher to be an app as well.
You are such a great instructor! Thank you so much for this tutorial!
Thank you
Great Video, you explain it very well. I just created a new notebook, and it was my first time using publisher. Thanks a lot 🤗
Glad it was helpful.
Thank you so much for this tutorial! It was very easy and clear! Also the video break up was very helpful!
Glad it helped!
Really useful, thanks. Looking forward to more tutorials.
Thank you.
How easy could this be? Thank you for this video. I write, ghost write, and do layouts for clients. I found Affinity Publisher nearly 2 years ago just as it launched and love what it does, especially for the cost. I now have all three and need to learn more about how to create good covers that compete with what is out there from larger publishers. If you have some of these videos, I'd love to see them. You do well in the way that you instruct, taking the right amount of time to let someone follow along. I appreciate that very much!!
Thank you Jim. I will be creating more videos showing how great the affinity tools are for creating KDP books and printables.
Great video. You have made Publisher much more user friendly. Since this was just the basics, would you be willing to make a video showing how to bring in images and place text around them or other more complex things? Thanks
Thank you. That is the plan, start with the basic and get more complex. I will certainly create a video about placing images and text around them.
Great video! I just hope you showed how to save the fonts and graphics in an embedded form. Thanks!
Great suggestion!
Thank you so much. Your instruction is clear, simple and much easy to follow, compared to many TH-camrs that I've watched. You earned my subscribe and looking forward to the next video: maybe how to create a simple notebook cover?
Glad it helped! Which software would you like to learn how to create a notebook cover.
@@DreamCreativeBee I’ve actually just purchased Affinity Designer and Publisher a few days ago and started learning them from scratch. Glad to run in with your channel. Very helpful. Thank you.
Thank you. I will create one using Designer then.
Thank you for sharing this. Are you planning on doing a similar video for how to create the cover in Affinity?
Yes it is added to my list.
@@DreamCreativeBee Thank you - I like the way you go through every step and explain it. Hardly anyone else seems to do that.
Thank you 😊
Gr8 video, and just what I needed. Thank you.
New to this even though I bought all 3 when it 1st launched. I just knew I would benefit by having them. So I have played around with them. Managed to create some images but don't really remember how I did them 🤔.
I will definitely be following you and looking out for your other videos.
Would u kindly consider a couple of suggestions please?
1. I find the black n white screen very difficult to work with myself and even more so when watching videos.
V small and v challenging to follow the mouse. So would u plse take a look at using the Grey screen. I only recently discovered it, and has made things so much less if a strain on my eyes.
2. This is about the speed of the movement of the mouse.
I think it is difficult when u know what u r doing and where u want to go, to move at a speed that newbies can follow u.
It is easier to follow it on the grey screen, but I hve very little idea of where things r and what I'm looking for so a slower speed wud help a lot.
I wonder too if there is an option to use a bigger size mouse and even a different colour.
That wud b great especially for those teaching.
I know the company is open to suggestions so I might find out how to make that suggestion.
N maybe u wud too, if u think it's a useful idea.
Thanks again for your video and look forward to the others you spoke of. 👌🏻😊
Thanks Bernice, they are all great suggestions.
Hi
I dragged out the Table to 42 but then when i tried to delete I couldn't, so i just dragged to 21, then I extended the 21 to the bottom of the page with the Move Tool, and everything looks fine...so far..xx
Glad you got it sorted out.
HI Kerie, when asked if your book is a bleed or not ...does that just mean your interior or both interior AND cover? for what if your cover is a bleed and the interior is not?
If asking for bleed that is just your interior. Interiors can be bleed or no bleed but cover always have bleed hope that helps.
Great video! The page setup is the same for logbooks?
Yes, it is! Although I probably change the inner margin to a minimum of 0.5, maybe as large as 0.75 to allow for writing near to the spine.
@@DreamCreativeBee thank you!
@@facundopresentado3394 You are welcome
Thank you for this video. Very easy to understand. How do you create print lines for a digital to sell on Etsy or online?
Glad it was helpful! You do the exact same thing in the video. Then you export as PDF ready for them to upload that to their digital app like Good Notes and One Notes. Remember you need to add links etc.
@@DreamCreativeBee Thank you!! I should have said to be printed. I think it’s the bleed line but I didn’t want a full square around each just on the corners.
@Noras Cove I think you mean that you want like tick box squares at the beginning of the line or end of the line. If that was the case and I was using tables. I would have 3 columns. The first column would have all the borders select and be the small square. The second column would have only the left side border selected and be the smallest width as I would be using that for the space between the tick box square and the line to write on. The third column would only have the bottom border selected and be longer in width than the others. Also I would add an extra row in between to give a space.
I think it would probably be quicker with using shapes rather that 3 column tables.
If I don't want bleed I would keep everything in the margin.
Hope that helps. I can create a video to show you what I mean.
Which one you recommend affinity publisher or affinity designer??? For KDP
Great question but not simple to answer. I think if you are creating more coloring books and activity books then affinity designer would be my choice as you can use artboards as your pages. However if you are creating planners and diaries then affinity publisher would be my first choice. If I could only choose one it would be affinity designer.
Thank you so much for this! One question.. I'm having a hard time with my pages looking centered on KDP. I have all of my margins set to .375 in Publisher, and everything clicks into the center. However, when I upload it to KDP, it isn't centered and it's driving me crazy! Any tips?? Thanks so much!
I bet it is driving you nuts.
I would actually increase your inner margin to at least 0.5. That way it should move your content further to the edge making it look more centred. Which will create an optical illusion and also give your customers more space to write in when they are near the gutter of the book (aka inner margin).
Hope that helps.
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Glad I could help
I hit Ctrl+W and it doesn't get rid of anything. I'm asked if I want to save my changes and then it will close the project?! Also, when you are getting rid of the borders, you say something like "you go here and select this", but despite watching that part over and over, I can't see where you "go here" nor what you selected. Totally lost me. I was so thrilled to get the table up with the lines as I'm brand new to affinity publisher, but I guess I need to figure it out somehow.
Sorry for the delayed response. So pleased that you have created your tables and making progress. Affinity publisher is such as powerful program and a good tool to have.
On a Mac, it is Ctrl + W, if you are a Windows user if you go to view and Preview Mode it should give you the shortcut key that gives you the option to remove all your guides, etc.
*"Also, when you are getting rid of the borders, you say something like "you go here and select this"*". I select the Thumbnail of the page where I want to get rid of the master and then right click on the thumbnail and select clear master.
Hope this helps.
@@DreamCreativeBee ..Hi..I also did the Ctrl W and everything disappeared but retreived my saved version...xx
There is an icon at the top of Publisher that looks like a wind screen wiper that shows print preview without having to press Ctrl W. Hope that helps.
If I am creating a book with bleed, should I export just with bleed or with bleed and crop marks?
Just with bleed will do for KDP.
@@DreamCreativeBee Thanks for your help :)
Thanks for this video. I just got affinity designer so I'm learning how to use it. Do you think that by having affinity designer, you don't need to use Canva if you use creative fabrica for all your graphics and designs? I'm trying to see which software is best to use to create my books. Thanks for sharing.
You still need to compile your book. Affinity Designer is great for creating and editing images, creating covers, creating tables for logbooks and journals but only one page at a time. You can't do 120 pages in Affinity Designer in one go or compile 120. So you can create your images etc and then either use Canva, Google Slides, Keynote, PowerPoint or Affinity Publisher to create the whole book.
I hope I explained it clearly.
@@DreamCreativeBee ok great thank you, that makes sense. Have a wonderful weekend
I really like the Affinity products and have all three. Its currently a bargain with their sale.
It certainly is a bargain. Great powerful software that is simple to use.
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