I have even more respect for picture book illustrators now. That’s a lot of factors to think about. Especially the cropping of your work to sell books at different sizes.
Thanks for taking the time to make a really nice, helpful video! Your teaching style is really clear, and I love how this video contains all the basic information that I have been needing to format my children's book. I've come back to this video so many times! Also, just a side note, you have a beautiful voice❤
I have a couple of days off next week and I plan on making some holiday cards. I’m going to have to just doodle until I hit upon something I like but I’m excited to have this resource. Great timing for this tutorial Genevieve! Thank you.
“masks” 🎭 I’m so thankful TH-cam recommended your channel to me. I’m writing a musical that I intend to have a children’s book accompany it with, and I’ve learned to much from your tutorials! Encore, merci, merci!! 🤍🤍🤍
Just found your channel...and oh my goodness thank you so much! It's SO helpful! I'm subbing because your videos are so helpful, good quality, and also because you look similar to one of my friends 😆
I am so happy to have found you a few months ago! You are an amazing teacher. Question: If I wanted to print one of my artworks on a canvas, where or with who could I print it? Thanks!
Thank you!! This is amazing. If I buy your book templates on my old iPad that I’m currently using, will they transfer to my new one when I get it if I use the same Apple ID? I’m buying them either way but just not sure if I should wait. Thanks!
Thank you so much for this detailed information!! I have self published three books, and really wish I had this information a couple of years ago. lol But, hey. at least my next one will be formatted correctly from the start! oh.. margins!
Hi! You are truly such a talent, with your skills and instruction. Obviously a newbie here but trying to learn! So I have written a book, made a story board, and now starting the illustrations. My question now is. How do you typically add in the text to your illustrations. Or do you do that in another program after?
KDP says that dimensions for an 8.5x8.5 (with bleed) should 8.625" x 8.75". But in the video the dimensions with bleed are 8.75 x 8.75. Will KDP allow us to submit it that way? I can’t get procreate to do 8.625…it only does 8.63.
This is because bleed disappears when you combine two pages into a spread. The gutter + spreads chapters (around 03:11 ) should be pretty helpful! As for getting the exact number into Procreate, you can input the values in pixels for more precision. Quick reminder: to convert inches to pixels, simply multiply your DPI (for print it's 300) and the inches. In your case, this would be 300*8.625 😊
Thanks for this video! Love your tutorials, they are very helpful! I made a children's book for my newborn niece (not professional of course ;-) )a few months ago and wish I would have seen this video before :) Would have made the proces a lot easier, I had to go back and change some drawings so the characters didn't get cut off the page. Can't wait to try another one now! Just have to wait for another one of my friends to get pregnant haha
Dear,Mrs.Genevieve , IM from Indonesian, i feel so enjoy with your vid tutorial , sorry about my bad grammar , i just wanna request, may I? Please, make tutorial vid Abou how make background for children book .Thanks
Hello! I was wondering if you could help me? I’m an amateur illustrator and I’m illustrating a children’s book for my kids! However..I’m using Adobe a fresco.. do you by chance have book formatting files that I can use with fresco?
Hello, I want to print children book independently. Could you please tell me about the settings at the beginning of procreate. The size, resolution is 300, and the color is CMYK. After the drawing is completed, I want to put it into Adobe Indesign. I have tried converting it to PSD, JPEG, PNG and TIFF in procreate and sending it via email. Then opened it on my computer and put it into Indesign, but the resolution of the file will be lower than 300, the printing house told me it must be 300 resolution. I also want to know if there will be any color difference when the file is transferred from procreate to Indesign? How can this be checked? I would like to ask if there is a tutorial on the children book file production process from procreate to Indesign. I am willing to pay to learn from you. thank you.
This is super helpful! How do you format the interior? This works for the cover margin and bleed but it looks like you have different specifications for the right and left pages. What are the margin and bleed details for these?
@@GenevievesDesignStudio I’m doing 8x8 trim (8.125 x 8.25 bleed) and my page is set to 8.5 x 8.5 I figured I would just scoot the bleed and margin to the right and left for the interior pages to allow for .125 blank in the gutter area. I didn’t change any of the dimensions but in yours it almost seems like the left and right pages have a smaller margin safety area. I’ve been using ingram spark and formatting has been a nightmare 😄 This video helped me immensely figure out how to do it on procreate without having to use another program.i
Hi Genevieve, I love your videos. I was wondering, if I'm doing spot illustrations (not going all the way to the edge), I don't need to worry about bleeds correct? Just margin?
Hi great tutorial, thank you! I just bought your bundle :) I have a question, please: don’t you need to leave the bleed marks on the PDF when submitting it to the printing Company? Tks!
@@GenevievesDesignStudio tks for such quick response! Do you think that if they request the file ‘with bleed’ it means with the guides? I’ll ask anyway, thank you 😊
I have a question. Since you've been illustrating books since a while, have you only used procreate? If so, what's the general dpi and max size you go for in order to be closest to adobe
I pretty much only use Procreate now :) The software you use doesn't affect the resolution, so for print it should always be 300dpi. You can check out this video if you want a bit more info on the subject: th-cam.com/video/209K7V09pEM/w-d-xo.html
I have a question about timestamp 13:34. when you are copying that spread over is the spread drawn to the edges of the page or only to the safety zone?
I'm so glad you enjoyed the video, thank you! :) You can find a few of my older projects here: genevievevieltaschereau.com/illustrations 😊 The thing with books is that most projects have to be kept a secret for sometimes up to 2 years after the illustrations are done since publishing can take a while. That means there's always a huge lag between what I'm creating and what's in my portfolio 🙃
Quick question: could this method work for when publishing a 48+ page book? My worry is that this may create too large a file to send or that it may inadvertently create more issues than with a 16 page book...
omg after watching hundreds of videos all day this has been the most helpful! I was starting to lose faith that I could actually design my book but now I actually understand what I'm doing 😅 Quick question, do these guides match up with the ones that Ingramspark uses? And do you have a video on what the brushes in your pack are? I'm trying to collect a heap of new brushes for my book illustrations
That's awesome! :D The last I checked, the guides do mach up with most IS and KDP book sizes. As for the brushes, you can see them in action in this video: th-cam.com/video/PRbKmjA7-0k/w-d-xo.html
Margin! Thank you so much for this video. I have NO idea what I’m doing, but I learn quickly with simple instructions…which is exactly what you did here. I didn’t realize there was so much to this process! Thanks for making it clear.
Thanks for putting this video out. As a person/artist that works full time at a printshop. I can't tell you how many people I have had to walk through how to do this.
As always, another wonderful video! I enjoy how you get to the point. I’ve wasted so much money on other “how to” classes and all of your videos are so easy to learn and to the point. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge ❤
Question, I added my story text/words to my art work in procreate because I like the fonts..is that fine for kdp? Would I have to separate the text by saving it as a pdf for just purpose of uploading it as manuscript? Or
Thank you for sharing this knowledge! Just a bit reminder, that the CMYK mode in Procreate is actually not real CMYK. The colour it prints would turn out wrong. If it's just for laser printing. RGB is good enough.
I created all my illustrations for my book before knowing anything about margins. This video is so helpful, but is there a way to backtrack and add margins after illustrating the pages? I’m stuck :( Thank you!
Hi Genevieve, do you have a template for an 8,5" x 8,5" spread? So if I want to create a canvas on Procreate with both pages next to each other, with the bleed and margin, as you demonstrated with the single page?
Hello Genevieve. Thank you for your very helpful video. I’m just confused by one thing. The canvas size at the end is no longer 8.5X8.5, it’s 8.75X8.75, correct? Did I do it wrong? Should it be 8.5X8.5? TIA🤗
Great demo, however It does seem like kdp does not allow inside covers. Although Ingram spark seems to have it (they call this feature duplex) for paper back books.
Hello Genevieve, Im wondering if you or anyone you know could freelance, and upload my book to KDP. All the illustrations were made in Procreate but KDP if flipping pictures, and we're so frustrated. All the files are in PDF. Do you have any suggestions? Thanks so much!
Just purchased ! Thanks! But how do i figure out adding the bind for the cover ? I’m working on a 6X9 cover with a .375 bind. Please help im trying to do this for Ingram. And its a huge headache. The templates i purchased from you doesn’t have. Do i have to add more length to the page? Or just imput it?
HI, I love your content! I have one small request if it is possible? Can you demonstrate this layout in Word or Google Docs because I do not have procreate and get lost trying to follow you after the first 5 min? Thanks. Mo
Hi! Genevieve, I am impressed with the quality of your content, thank you! This is my first approach to consider digital illustration for my children books I am about to start creating, and this is definitely the way to go. Could you suggest me what iPad version and pen should I get, please? Thank you!
I have even more respect for picture book illustrators now. That’s a lot of factors to think about. Especially the cropping of your work to sell books at different sizes.
Thank you so much, I'm working on my first children's book and this was soooo helpful!
The same here! I´m workin on my first chilfren's book and I was saved by this video! 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
Margin.
I knew I purchased your bundle for a reason. Thanks for doing the hard work for us. Can’t wait to use these for my first book.
Thanks for taking the time to make a really nice, helpful video! Your teaching style is really clear, and I love how this video contains all the basic information that I have been needing to format my children's book. I've come back to this video so many times! Also, just a side note, you have a beautiful voice❤
Thank you for the best description of bleed and how it exists alongside margin as a concept!
Thank you so much!!! Your video helps me a lot, it really useful❤
thank you so much for a great, informative video! i am such a beginner and this is helping a lot! :)
Thank you so much! Great presentation of information :)
Margin! Loved this, and have purchased your Illustration Bundle. Many thanks! 😃
One of the clearest and best explanations I've ever seen.
Thank you so much!
Margin!!!
Excellent, excellent, excellent instructions. Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge. ❤🎉
Thank you! I love your creations! Useful for my creations too.
I have a couple of days off next week and I plan on making some holiday cards. I’m going to have to just doodle until I hit upon something I like but I’m excited to have this resource. Great timing for this tutorial Genevieve! Thank you.
Thank you so much 💓 💗 I purchased the set 🎈 its really helpful 😊 I was confused about margins
Margin! So helpful, I'm going to share with my SCBWI illustrator group. Thank you, Genevieve!
Margin! Thank you so much this is everything I needed today.
Margin! Thank you for the detailed tutorial-this was so thorough & helpful!
Margin. Great video!
Hi Genevieve, I love your tutorials 🥰 Could you please make a tutorial about backgrounds? Thanks a lot!
Thank you for sharing Genevieve!🌸
Margin! I'm loving your content! Thanks so much for putting this together.
Thank you for this video! I’m a first time book illustrator and this has helped me tremendously.
Wow, i looked this video in 2024. And i reallyy love this video. Thanks for sharing and making this video❤
Thank you for this!!!
Great video! Thanks!
“masks” 🎭
I’m so thankful TH-cam recommended your channel to me. I’m writing a musical that I intend to have a children’s book accompany it with, and I’ve learned to much from your tutorials! Encore, merci, merci!! 🤍🤍🤍
Margin - such an informative and helpful video thank you!
Margin.
This is excellent, thank you
Just found your channel...and oh my goodness thank you so much! It's SO helpful! I'm subbing because your videos are so helpful, good quality, and also because you look similar to one of my friends 😆
Margin, thank you for such a good tutorial
Hi Genevieve, could you also make a tutorial on formatting a board book with pull out tabs
This was great! Exactly what I needed at this point in my journey! Thank you!
If I missed it on this video I apologize but how do you format you cover for the book if you're looking to get a linen wrap cover?
I am so happy to have found you a few months ago! You are an amazing teacher. Question: If I wanted to print one of my artworks on a canvas, where or with who could I print it? Thanks!
Margin so helpful, thank you.
Thank you!! This is amazing. If I buy your book templates on my old iPad that I’m currently using, will they transfer to my new one when I get it if I use the same Apple ID? I’m buying them either way but just not sure if I should wait. Thanks!
Margin! Haha this was great, thank you so much!
Thank you so much for this detailed information!! I have self published three books, and really wish I had this information a couple of years ago. lol But, hey. at least my next one will be formatted correctly from the start! oh.. margins!
Margin, thank you
Im understanding the steps but whats the margin and the bleed again?
Hi! You are truly such a talent, with your skills and instruction. Obviously a newbie here but trying to learn!
So I have written a book, made a story board, and now starting the illustrations.
My question now is. How do you typically add in the text to your illustrations. Or do you do that in another program after?
Wouldn’t the stretching of the artwork make it pixelated ?
thanks for sharing
Margin! Thanks so much for a great video :)
Sooo soooo helpful. Thank you so much for this tutorial. 😍👍👍👍
So I am a little confused. After I draw both of the lines, I draw inside of the smaller circle and don’t go outside of the other boxes?
What is the actual printing process like? What kind of printer/paper/ink do you use?
Super video, tks!
14:20 , doesn’t expanding the draw reduce its quality?
KDP says that dimensions for an 8.5x8.5 (with bleed) should 8.625" x 8.75". But in the video the dimensions with bleed are 8.75 x 8.75. Will KDP allow us to submit it that way? I can’t get procreate to do 8.625…it only does 8.63.
This is because bleed disappears when you combine two pages into a spread. The gutter + spreads chapters (around 03:11 ) should be pretty helpful!
As for getting the exact number into Procreate, you can input the values in pixels for more precision. Quick reminder: to convert inches to pixels, simply multiply your DPI (for print it's 300) and the inches. In your case, this would be 300*8.625 😊
Margin - Thank you!
Margin. Thanks
THANK YOU SO MUCH
If the template says 8.5” does that transfer to 8.5” without margin once printed out?
Thanks for this video! Love your tutorials, they are very helpful! I made a children's book for my newborn niece (not professional of course ;-) )a few months ago and wish I would have seen this video before :) Would have made the proces a lot easier, I had to go back and change some drawings so the characters didn't get cut off the page. Can't wait to try another one now! Just have to wait for another one of my friends to get pregnant haha
Dear,Mrs.Genevieve , IM from Indonesian, i feel so enjoy with your vid tutorial , sorry about my bad grammar , i just wanna request, may I? Please, make tutorial vid Abou how make background for children book .Thanks
Amazing
Hello! I was wondering if you could help me?
I’m an amateur illustrator and I’m illustrating a children’s book for my kids! However..I’m using Adobe a fresco.. do you by chance have book formatting files that I can use with fresco?
Hello, I want to print children book independently. Could you please tell me about the settings at the beginning of procreate. The size, resolution is 300, and the color is CMYK. After the drawing is completed, I want to put it into Adobe Indesign. I have tried converting it to PSD, JPEG, PNG and TIFF in procreate and sending it via email. Then opened it on my computer and put it into Indesign, but the resolution of the file will be lower than 300, the printing house told me it must be 300 resolution.
I also want to know if there will be any color difference when the file is transferred from procreate to Indesign? How can this be checked?
I would like to ask if there is a tutorial on the children book file production process from procreate to Indesign. I am willing to pay to learn from you. thank you.
😿 why was one illustration 2 pages? How do you know where to start the second part of the page ?
Hi, I just finished my first manuscript and now I want to put a illustration brief packet together. What should that packet include?
This is super helpful! How do you format the interior? This works for the cover margin and bleed but it looks like you have different specifications for the right and left pages. What are the margin and bleed details for these?
It really depends on your project, there's no universal size! :)
@@GenevievesDesignStudio I’m doing 8x8 trim (8.125 x 8.25 bleed) and my page is set to 8.5 x 8.5 I figured I would just scoot the bleed and margin to the right and left for the interior pages to allow for .125 blank in the gutter area. I didn’t change any of the dimensions but in yours it almost seems like the left and right pages have a smaller margin safety area.
I’ve been using ingram spark and formatting has been a nightmare 😄 This video helped me immensely figure out how to do it on procreate without having to use another program.i
Hi Genevieve, I love your videos. I was wondering, if I'm doing spot illustrations (not going all the way to the edge), I don't need to worry about bleeds correct? Just margin?
so high quality
margin!
que video perfeito, obrigada
margin😊
Comment-thank you!
Hi great tutorial, thank you! I just bought your bundle :) I have a question, please: don’t you need to leave the bleed marks on the PDF when submitting it to the printing Company? Tks!
Hi! It depends on the company, some want them, some don't 😊
@@GenevievesDesignStudio tks for such quick response! Do you think that if they request the file ‘with bleed’ it means with the guides? I’ll ask anyway, thank you 😊
I have a question. Since you've been illustrating books since a while, have you only used procreate? If so, what's the general dpi and max size you go for in order to be closest to adobe
I pretty much only use Procreate now :) The software you use doesn't affect the resolution, so for print it should always be 300dpi.
You can check out this video if you want a bit more info on the subject: th-cam.com/video/209K7V09pEM/w-d-xo.html
I have a question about timestamp 13:34. when you are copying that spread over is the spread drawn to the edges of the page or only to the safety zone?
To the edge of the bleed zone! There's always a little part of the illustration that will be cut off :)
Hi how would i create 3 equal panels in my canvas? I'm drawing a bi fold card
MARGIN
Should the dpi be 300 or can I have it higher since I can go up to 400
It's not necessary 😊
I would love to get the templates from you for $20 but I have bought 2 other things from you and still can’t access them
Hey Betsy! Please send me an email so we can figure out what happened 👉 hello@genevievesdesignstudio.com :)
Oh , quiet interesting and fun to watch though I am no illustratating any book . Also one question do you have your own book ? 😀😀😀 margin
I'm so glad you enjoyed the video, thank you! :)
You can find a few of my older projects here: genevievevieltaschereau.com/illustrations 😊
The thing with books is that most projects have to be kept a secret for sometimes up to 2 years after the illustrations are done since publishing can take a while. That means there's always a huge lag between what I'm creating and what's in my portfolio 🙃
Ok , I will surely check out your older projects 😀👍🏻
Margins!!!
What if I both illustrate and write the book? Can I add the text directly in procreate or is it better to use world? Thank you
Yes, you can add text directly in Procreate 😊
@@GenevievesDesignStudio thank you 😘😘😘
Quick question: could this method work for when publishing a 48+ page book? My worry is that this may create too large a file to send or that it may inadvertently create more issues than with a 16 page book...
Not sure, I haven't tried personally! Most books I've worked on were 32 pages :)
Amazing tutorial. So clear and demonstrated well. Thank you so much for sharing!
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Margin below...thank you
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omg after watching hundreds of videos all day this has been the most helpful! I was starting to lose faith that I could actually design my book but now I actually understand what I'm doing 😅 Quick question, do these guides match up with the ones that Ingramspark uses? And do you have a video on what the brushes in your pack are? I'm trying to collect a heap of new brushes for my book illustrations
That's awesome! :D
The last I checked, the guides do mach up with most IS and KDP book sizes.
As for the brushes, you can see them in action in this video: th-cam.com/video/PRbKmjA7-0k/w-d-xo.html
Margin! Thank you so much for this video. I have NO idea what I’m doing, but I learn quickly with simple instructions…which is exactly what you did here. I didn’t realize there was so much to this process! Thanks for making it clear.
Did your project work out? I’m in that boat now of not knowing what I’m doing lol
Thanks for putting this video out. As a person/artist that works full time at a printshop. I can't tell you how many people I have had to walk through how to do this.
As always, another wonderful video! I enjoy how you get to the point. I’ve wasted so much money on other “how to” classes and all of your videos are so easy to learn and to the point. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge ❤
I’m running into file degradation with the copy and past technique. How do we fix that?
Question, I added my story text/words to my art work in procreate because I like the fonts..is that fine for kdp? Would I have to separate the text by saving it as a pdf for just purpose of uploading it as manuscript? Or
Thank you for sharing this knowledge! Just a bit reminder, that the CMYK mode in Procreate is actually not real CMYK. The colour it prints would turn out wrong. If it's just for laser printing. RGB is good enough.
Thanks for the info! What do you recommend for printing with amazon kdp or offset?
I created all my illustrations for my book before knowing anything about margins. This video is so helpful, but is there a way to backtrack and add margins after illustrating the pages? I’m stuck :( Thank you!
But the img is still saved in rgb format even if we draw in cmyk and when converting to cmyk the colors dull down a lot.. how to fix that in ipad ?!
Hi Genevieve, do you have a template for an 8,5" x 8,5" spread? So if I want to create a canvas on Procreate with both pages next to each other, with the bleed and margin, as you demonstrated with the single page?
Hello Genevieve. Thank you for your very helpful video. I’m just confused by one thing. The canvas size at the end is no longer 8.5X8.5, it’s 8.75X8.75, correct? Did I do it wrong? Should it be 8.5X8.5? TIA🤗
Great demo, however It does seem like kdp does not allow inside covers. Although Ingram spark seems to have it (they call this feature duplex) for paper back books.
Hi Genevieve, do you happen to sell or have available the 18 book formatting templates, separate from the large bundle? Thank you :)
Hello Genevieve,
Im wondering if you or anyone you know could freelance, and upload my book to KDP. All the illustrations were made in Procreate but KDP if flipping pictures, and we're so frustrated. All the files are in PDF. Do you have any suggestions? Thanks so much!
Just purchased ! Thanks! But how do i figure out adding the bind for the cover ? I’m working on a 6X9 cover with a .375 bind. Please help im trying to do this for Ingram. And its a huge headache. The templates i purchased from you doesn’t have. Do i have to add more length to the page? Or just imput it?
HI, I love your content! I have one small request if it is possible? Can you demonstrate this layout in Word or Google Docs because I do not have procreate and get lost trying to follow you after the first 5 min? Thanks. Mo
Hi! Genevieve, I am impressed with the quality of your content, thank you! This is my first approach to consider digital illustration for my children books I am about to start creating, and this is definitely the way to go. Could you suggest me what iPad version and pen should I get, please? Thank you!
Brilliant video!! Thank you ❤️🇦🇺