Killer layouts: Reimagining Dracula in Affinity Publisher with product expert Benjamin Viney
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- Опубліковано 24 лип 2024
- In this special Halloween-themed Creative Session, our in-house product expert Benjamin Viney shows us how to create a bloody brilliant illustrated book in our award-winning Affinity Publisher software.
If you dare, follow along as he reimagines his own version of Bram Stoker’s 1897 classic, Dracula…
First, Ben will show you how to illustrate and design a cover utilising Affinity Publisher’s fantastic array of creative tools such as the Pen Tool, Transparency Tool, layer blend modes, and the Gradient Fill Tool. He’ll also talk you through how to choose the best font for your cover as well as book size. After that, Ben will focus on chapter one of the spine-tingling vampire tale, demonstrating how to lay out the internal pages of a book using master pages, automatic fields such as running headers and page numbers, as well as text styles and auto flowing text.
Ben will be available on UA-cam’s Live Chat for this session’s premiere on Friday, 27 October at 4pm BST to answer any questions. He’s also provided free-to-use downloads of the source files and everything else you need to follow along here: affin.co/BVFC
Benjamin Viney is an award-winning designer with over thirteen years’ experience, designing everything from books and magazines to racing liveries and company logos. Before joining Serif, he worked with many notable institutions, including The Tate Modern, Berkshire Hathaway, Red Bull Racing, The Guardian, The British Library, and The RHS.
Check out the links below to learn more about him and his work:
Instagram: / benjamin_viney
Gumroad: benjaminviney.gumroad.com/
Twitter: / benjaminviney_
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Great video. An easy and pleasurable way to learn content. So much information. Thank you.
Learned a great deal following along with this thanks!
I love this instructional video, including the running commentary! Beautiful way to learn, and perfect for Halloween (or other ‘horror’ applications :-).
This should be good, as I haven't gone past writing my 'memories', and adding just my photos of the past. I need a boost of imagination and knowledge
Plus if the book is laying on a table, the text is the right way up
Hello, I have tried to make an ebook in electronic format for Kindle and it has not been possible for me to do so. Indesign can export to html and epub format, and then be able to improve it with Caliber, put a cover, change code easily.
When will we be able to enjoy these improvements? Thank you
Many thanks for this tutorial!
I would like to ask two things:
1. what is the purpose of the red background? (page 3,4)
2. why did the # not become page numbers? Have I done something wrong?
The stylus and the color pipette gave me the biggest problems during the tutorial.
To all beginners:
Especially as a beginner you will have problems in some places. Don't be afraid to give it a try tough. It will really be worth it
Hi @tom_unseen, Hope you enjoyed the tutorial. The red background on pages 3, 4 represents the internal cover page. Essentially the page that joins the front cover to the bound manuscript in a hard cover book. There's lots of different ways to design a book but for the video I included the front cover in the same document as my manuscript/ chapter pages. Admittedly not all that common a workflow but worked well for the video.
As for the # can I ask if you inserted the # as a page number as a field? With your text frame selected go to the top menu, under the 'Text' menu, scroll down to Insert> Fields and choose Page Number, It should populate automatically. Alternatively you can right click in your text frame (with the text frame tool selected), scroll down to Insert Field and choose insert Page Number.
You can insert a Page Number Field in any text frame but I always recommend creating them on a master page. Tends makes things a little easier as you can just apply the master to the pages in your document.
Hope this helps, thanks for watching the video.
@@benjaminviney worked, thanks
I spent years in bath conservation and the association of bats with Dracula never helped…
We have been asked to support the right-to-left language since V1 and not any kind of support provided, You just provided a third-party 30$ app as an idea, and after buying it it was full of issues. After buying V1 & V2 i really think to switch back to Adobe.
I'd buy Affinity if you had a linux version
We currently don't have plans for a Linux version of the Affinity apps.
@@Affinitybyserif Why not?
I had difficulty following.
Thank you, anyway.