Children'S Picture Book Illustration With Powerpoint

Use Microsoft PowerPoint to illustrate and write children's picture books for self-publishing on Amazon or in PDF format

What you'll learn
Use Microsoft PowerPoint to illustrate your children's picture book.
Use free images off the Internet to illustrate your children's picture book.
Draw your own simple composite illustrations for your children's picture book.
Add text to your children's picture book to tell your story.
Requirements
You'll need access to a copy of Microsoft PowerPoint to follow along.
Description
Hello,Welcome to my course, Children's Picture Book Illustration with PowerPoint.In this course, I explain how to use Microsoft PowerPoint to illustrate a children's picture book.  The first half of the course explains how to use simple images from the Internet and from the PowerPoint resource library to compose your story.  The second half explains how to use PowerPoint to draw any shape.Learn to illustrate and write and children's picture book even if you can't draw.My name is Brian Jackson.  I'm the instructor of the course.  I'm also the writer of over one dozen books, publisher of well over 100 Amazon Kindle e-books and instructor with almost 40 Udemy courses to my name.This course was previously published but became out of date.  I am re-releasing just the PowerPoint portions of the original course that are up to date and useful.In this course, I demonstrate using Microsoft PowerPoint to create a children's picture book.  More specifically, I address the following topics in detail:How to configure Microsoft PowerPoint to output images in 300 DPI resolution.How to use free images from the Internet to illustrate your story.How to use free images from the Microsoft Office 365 resource library to illustrate your story.How to use Microsoft PowerPoint to draw any free form image.Learn to create professional quality children's picture books the easy way.I am directing this course to writers new to Amazon illustrating children's picture books and those old timers wanting to brush up their illustration and PowerPoint skills.Whichever is the case, I look forward to joining you on a journey through the lectures ahead.I'll see you in the classroom,–-Brian

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Course Overview

Lecture 2 Course Resources

Lecture 3 Setting PowerPoint Export Resolution to 300 DPI

Lecture 4 Setting PowerPoint 2013 Export Resolution to 300 DPI on Windows 8.1

Lecture 5 Setting PowerPoint 2016 Export Resolution to 300 DPI

Lecture 6 How to Watch This Course

Section 2: Using PowerPoint to Create Your Picture Book

Lecture 7 Where to Find Free and Inexpensive Images

Lecture 8 "Roscoe Goes Swimming" in PowerPoint

Lecture 9 PowerPoint Bootcamp I

Lecture 10 PowerPoint Bootcamp II

Section 3: Intermission

Lecture 11 Please Leave a Review

Section 4: Advanced Children's Book Illustration Using PowerPoint

Lecture 12 Draw Any Shape in PowerPoint

Lecture 13 Drawing and Correcting Freeform Shapes

Lecture 14 Drawing Curves in PowerPoint

Lecture 15 Sources of Free Images

Lecture 16 Outlining Images Using PowerPoint Vector Graphic Shapes

Lecture 17 Shape Solid Fills, Gradients and Outlines

Lecture 18 Grouping Objects

Section 5: Additional Material

Lecture 19 Using Free Google Slides in place of Paid Microsoft PowerPoint 2013

Section 6: Conclusion

Lecture 20 Bonus Lecture

This course is for those new to illustration looking for a really simple illustration environment.