Book design services for authors self-publishers & small publishers.

Get book design services or start with a discussion about layout for interior text pages. Great book design can mean increased sales … it is that important. Books should be designed with Adobe InDesign. InDesign is not easy to learn quickly, even if you have experience with other software.

Professionals use Adobe InDesign.

Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator are quite useful for brochures, but are a not meant to be the work horse for book design. The industry standard is Adobe InDesign.

Look for designers who are designing books on a regular basis. Books can be a challenge for even the most experience graphic designer. It is not the same as creating a brochure.

Professional book design services … reasonably priced.

We understand the importance of professional graphic design as well as high-quality book printing.

• Book layout includes the use of a correct title page, copyright page, page placement (recto versus verso), page numbering, indexing, acknowledgements, table of contents, foreword, and preface.
• Understanding of color reproduction as it appears on a monitor versus a color booth, digital proof, press proof. or offset printing signature.
• Cover design that sells the book.
• Interior text page design needs to be appealing to the reader.
• Process color versus spot color … when each are used, and how they affects the printing quote.
• CMYK mode versus RGB and when to use either.
• File formats and which is best for book printing versus monitor viewing.
• Understanding of resolution and why we can’t use your 1 inch x 1 inch 300 pixels per inch photo on a full-page.
• Typography and why a quick choice of typefaces is not a substitute for knowledge and experience, specifically with typography and type pairs.
• Color theory and how to incorporate it successfully into a high-quality book.
• Indexing is best when expertly done by a professional indexer.

Guidance for professional looking books.

We will provide guidance to prepare files properly for prepress, but do not provide step-by-step training in InDesign or Photoshop.

However, if you are doing a photography book or any book with high-quality photography, you will want to use a professional book designer. You need a cover that sells in addition to well-designed text pages.

Graphic designers that routinely do production work for brochures, sell sheets and the like, and often are not far enough down the learning curve to design an entire book.