Get your own free workspace
View
 

PalmBooks

Page history last edited by tourtell@... 3 years, 4 months ago

---

Creative Palm Books

 

 

A “palm book” is simply a book that fits in the palm of your hand!

 

This hands-on workshop will give you a chance to create small books for small publishing. The book is such a great tool for combining visual and textual language as well as storytelling and journaling into a concrete physical form.

 

Usually “personal” books are done in the style known as “artist books,” one-of-a-kind creations. Published books which are all created through the computer at some level create the opportunity for many more people to experience it! Using Adobe’s portable document format (.pdf) and the internet, we can publish work to others and have them print their own copy. This means anyone can end up with a book - and you don’t have to sit and make all the copies.

 

We have posted all the handouts templates and samples on a website located at www.clibrary.pbwiki.com.

 

Class outline:

 

1. How to fold & cut a palm book – easy!

 

2. Analog

 

a. Markers!

b. Crayons!

c. Pictures!

d. Glue!

e. It’s so exciting!

 

3. Digital – Microsoft Publisher

 

a. Text boxes

b. Images

i. From clipart

ii. From files/internet

iii. From digital cameras

iv. From the scanner

c. Text boxes & images

 

4. Publishing

 

a. Printing to a pdf file Cute pdf writer

b. Adobe Acrobat Reader

c. Other page layout software

Free: Scribus


Download Samples and Hand Outs

Instructions on folding the palm book (.pdf) file.

Book Template in Publisher (.pub) file.

Page layout tutorial (.pdf) file.

 

Book Samples:

I Don't Want To (.pdf)

Magpie and the Leash (.pdf)

Why I want a Motorcycle (.pdf)

Life Cycle of a Butterfly (.pdf)


 

this is how you update a page

 

Comments (0)

You don't have permission to comment on this page.