Microsoft PowerPoint: Illustrate Children's Picture Books

In this video about age group and reading level, I begin my exploration of writing children's books with detailed explanations and demonstrations of each age group and reading level: picture books, early readers, chapter books, middle-grade books and young adult (YA) books.

In this lecture, I present two ways to publish a children's book: reflowable and fixed formats, and this course focuses on fixed-format publication.

In this lecture, I provide an introduction to PowerPoint by showing the screen layout and how to navigate the program.

In this lecture, I demonstrate how to create graphic elements and manipulate and configure them.

This lecture discusses how to upgrade your PowerPoint export resolution from 96 dpi to 300 dpi.

The process is exactly the same for setting each version of PowerPoint, you simply need to choose the correct directory

In this lecture, I explain how to set your book page size in PowerPoint.

In this lecture, I discuss searching the internet for free images and using my favorite site, Pixabay.

In this lecture, I explain how to load and image from the Internet onto the background of your page.

In this lecture, I explain how to use PowerPoint native primitive shapes to construct your own background.

This is a continuation of the previous lecture.

In this lecture, I demonstrate using a mostly white page background with some illustrations on it.

In this lecture, I dive deep into layers and element stacking order by creating a more sophisticated tree.

In this lecture, I provide an overview of the Insert->Icons menu focusing on using stickers as foreground illustrations for your books.

In this lecture, I demonstrate constructing a cartoon character from library resources and coloring it.

This is a continuation of the previous lecture.

In this lecture, I demonstrate all the basic functionality of text in PowerPoint along with three ways to insert text.

In this lecture, I explain how to keep your text readable when merging it with graphics.

In this video, I demonstrate loading a free font off the DaFont Internet site and using it in PowerPoint.

In this lecture, I suggest the technique of running text around images to outline them.  Trust me, it's fun!

In this lecture, I demonstrate how to make circular and wavy text using the text transformation tool.