Using FREE Scribus Software to Create Professional Presentations: Book Covers, Magazine Covers, Graphic Designs, Posters, Newsletters, Renderings, and More (Full Color Edition) - Softcover

Chen, Alice; Chen, Gang

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0984374159 ISBN 13: 9780984374151

Publisher: ArchiteG, Incorporated, 2012

Synopsis

About 80% of people have the desire to write a book at some point. With the advance of computer and printing technology, this dream can become a reality. One important factor of publishing a book is to create a professional looking book cover. This book uses book cover design as a case study to teach you how to use FREE Scribus software (instead of expensive professional software like InDesign, Photoshop, and QuarkXpress) to create professional presentations. With fewer words and many full color screenshots, we walk you step by step through the entire process. No prior experience is needed. You will learn how to: 1. Download all the FREE software needed. 2. Put the cover template in correct formats. 3. Set up the sheet correctly using units, colors (RGB or CMYK), layers, the imported cover template, sizes, guides, bleed area, and safety margin. 4. Add the background color for the cover with a shape or image frame. 5. Add the cover image and author’s photo, as well as how to handle a fully bleed image. 6. Add the titles and text accurately, including information on selecting or changing the text color, using the text box, centering the text, aligning different text boxes, and rotating the text. 7. Add the barcode by extracting the barcode from an EPS file and moving all the barcode elements together or by adding the barcode as a JPEG image file. 8. Use Scribus software to create professional presentations such as book covers, magazine covers, graphic designs, posters, newsletters, renderings, and more. See links below for our sample book cover designs using Scribus: JasmineJi.webs.com/ GreenExamEducation.com/

About this title

About the Author

About the authors
Alice Chen is an avid Scribus user. She has extensive interest in presentation software, and resides in California.

Gang Chen holds a master's degree from the School of Architecture, University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, and a bachelor's degree from the School of Architecture, South China University of Technology. He has over 20 years of professional experience. Many of the projects he was in charge of or participated in have been published extensively in Architecture, Architectural Record, The Los Angeles Times, The Orange County Register, etc. He has worked on a variety of unusual projects, including well-known, large-scale healthcare and hospitality projects with over one billion dollars in construction costs; award-winning school designs, highly-acclaimed urban design and streetscape projects, multifamily housing, high-end custom homes, and regional and neighborhood shopping centers.

Gang Chen is a LEED AP BD+C and a licensed architect in California. He is also the internationally acclaimed author of other fascinating books, including Building Construction, Planting Design Illustrated, ARE Mock Exam Series and LEED Exam Guides Series, which include one guidebook for each of the LEED exams. For more information, visit GreenExamEducation.com

From the Back Cover

Where can I download the FREE book cover design templates for the book cover design exercise in your book?


See link below:
scribus.webs.com/downloads.htm

You can find sample texts and other information in customer discussion sections under the lower portion of this Amazon listing page.


Some people ask: Where's the bang for the buck?

Our response: Didn't you hear the big bang for the bucks? If you spend $29.99 to buy our book, and spend a few hours reading it, you can design your own book cover and save $299 to $1,500 in book cover design fee.

That is a super loud bang for the bucks. How can you not hear it?

The book is also in full color with many step-by-step screen shots. The cost of making it is MUCH higher than a black and white interior book.

We use Scribus to design ALL our book covers. See the upper-left hand corner of this book's Amazon's detailed listing for our samples of book cover design using Scribus (We uploaded them as customer images).

Scribus is as good as Photoshop, and it is FREE. However, many people do not know about Scribus, let alone using it.

Our goal is NOT simply to teach people Scribus, but to make Scribus accessible to the mass. Our goal is to let you master the framework and fundamentals for Scribus AND achieve your goal in the shortest time.

Edition details

• Publisher: ArchiteG, Incorporated
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0984374159
• ISBN 13: 9780984374151
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 70