I have spent the last 2 hours struggling to design a page layout template. I've finally found a style that I like and that I think will work well for my book.
It's clean and simple and works on the basis of three two-page spreads which can carry different material but clearly belong together, with just a few techniques repeated to provide a flexible but unified layout.
So far so easy.
Or so I thought.
Two hours in and I've deleted the unholy mess I somehow managed to create and will have to start all over again.
*sigh*
How can something so simple be so difficult to get exactly right? I've had a crash course in page bleeds and gutters, picas (No. I have no idea what they are either) and CMYK. Through no fault of my own, I now also have a passing acquaintance with Master Spreads and crossovers.
And my brain hurts.
3 comments:
tsk....... amateurs!
Oh, don't YOU start....
Anyway, I'm going to 'phone a friend' who will hopefully magically transform my template straw into gold.
I think, well done is the words Richard was looking for. Who else would even know what all those thingy's were let alone how to do them.
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