How to ADD IMAGES to your novel in WORD when formatting your novel from scratch (Formatting Part 6)

this is the fifth video in our formatting series and today we're going to talk about adding images to your book with something called the bleed feature and no i did not make that up that's actually what it's called i'll explain why in a second but the reason this is so so valuable for self-published authors to know is that knowing how to put an image in your book can help you put in simple things like your title page or your author photo or things that are more complicated if you know how to use the bleed feature such as a book map or character art or tons of other fun things that we're gonna go into in this video today we're gonna start with the things that are easier and then we'll move into the more complicated side of things which is that bleed feature that i mentioned let me pause the video for one second i should rewind really quick and introduce myself my name is bethany atazada i am your professor in this free mini master class free for you at least youtube is paying me so thank you in advance for watching the videos all the way through for liking subscribing sharing with your friends all of these things are like a free tip jar so it really helps my channel thank you so much in advance and it's looking like it's going to be a very full class so let me introduce you to rta real quick this is my teaching assistant google she is super helpful she's available at all hours of the day and night and she has pretty much endless resources so i'm gonna be honest with you even though i am the professor of this course she knows more than i do you can definitely ask me questions if you'd like but i got to be honest with you i'm pretty much sharing every single bit of information that i know in this course so i may often end up referring you to her because she actually knows quite a bit more than i do there are five quick things you should know before class starts number one i will be reading from my notes here on my computer pretty carefully since this is a very complicated subject and i don't want to miss anything so if you see me looking down that's why number two i am only able to share what i know and what i have chosen to do so just like everything else in publishing and writing there's probably a million and one different ways to do formatting this is just my personal experience so despite this incredibly professional course where you're going to come out with a bachelor's degree in formatting i actually have no formal training and i'm basing everything off of my own experience formatting over 10 different novels and sometimes learning things through what they call trial by fire so again i don't know everything about formatting but i am going to share as much as possible in this series and for everything else i'm going to point you to my fabulous ta google for any support questions you might have number three i use this gorgeous template that has built-in formatting already set up and i highly highly recommend it i'll talk more about this template throughout this series so make sure you watch all the videos in the series if you want to know more number four oh yeah did i mention that this is a series i'm going to put all the videos in this formatting series into a playlist on youtube that i will link below every single video if you want to go back and watch any videos that you missed you can find that in the description box below last but not least number five i am going to time stamp all the videos in the series as much as possible which means that you can look at the bottom of the video to see what is in each section and that way you can easily go back and forth and find something again if you need to watch it a second time later or a third time but i just want to encourage you not to skip around the first time because you might miss something really important and i don't want you to be confused okay back to the video all right i'm going to take you to my screen i'm going to show you the enchanted crown so this what you see here is actually a photo so this is what's called a png file which means that it's not a full square photo it's just the font if that makes sense look into png if you don't know what i'm talking about and so let's pretend it's not there and i want to insert it i'm going to click insert at the top left here i'm going to go down to the picture option and i'm going to take a picture from my file i get asked about this gorgeous font that i'm about to show you whenever i post pictures of my book on instagram but the thing is that this is not a font that i am typing in myself this is specifically from my cover designer because if you watch my 10 basic formatting rules video then you know it's really important for your title page to match your book cover page so for example that is the font for the stolen kingdom book and this is that exact same font but of course in black instead of in gold on the inside of the book so to insert it you're literally just going to click photo but as you can see already it's not exactly the placement that it was before and it's also the wrong size so the next thing you want to do is when you click on it you can grab the corners and you can make it larger but now you'll notice that it is going off the page so to fix that you're going to right click you're going to go down to the wrap text option usually i just click one of these now once you have a wrap text feature whatever feature you picked on it you can now click that same thing right click wrap text and over down at the very bottom fixed position on page and now see this little anchor at the top there whenever you put your picture somewhere that's where it's going to stay you have the room to maneuver it around on the page so now i like to put it kind of in the center there but you have to keep the margins the printing margins in mind you can't make it too big so i'll kind of play with it and it does have a little bit of white space on the edges of it anyway but if i am ever wondering you know how is this going to print you can look at this thumbnail size over here or you can zoom out and look at it and think okay that looks that looks pretty good i feel like you know you could even mess with it from here and make it a little bit smaller now let's go to the end of the book i don't want you guys to be able to read it so i'm shrinking it way down but typically with my front and back matter at this point i just copy and paste it from a previous book into the new book and play with that but for the sake of this video i'm going to show you how i add i'm going to go back to insert picture picture from file and we're going to add my author bio picture i'm going to add in a black and white author bio picture so my next tip for you is make sure that the photos that you include are black and white unless you want to pay more for printing but let's say for example you don't have a black and white photo and you don't know how to make your author photo or a different maybe a character art photo black and white it's very easy you would want to probably duplicate it instead of changing your original and once you have a duplicate you're going to go into adjust color and then within the adjust color option saturation means color so you're going to simply remove it bring it all the way to the side and now you have a black and white photo if you wanted to you could also play with the contrast exposure highlights shadows etc but honestly if you have a quality photo already you just need to make it black and white don't forget to save it as the black and white option and then you can go ahead and add that to your document alright so that's your basic way to insert photos but now what about inserting photos that you want to go all the way to the edge of the page aka past the margins because if you don't do the specific step i'm about to teach you your print-on-demand company would reject something like this it would say no this photo is going outside of the margins it's outside of the safe printing area and they would automatically reject something like this and not allow you to print your book so to get something like a book map or even something like another book cover or character art that extends past the acceptable margins that safe area that i mentioned to you you're gonna have to use something called the bleed feature and i hinted at this at the beginning of the video and i mentioned very clearly that i did not come up with this but the idea of the bleed feature is that it simply means you're letting that print on demand company know that you're okay with the image bleeding off the page going into the margins outside of the safe area into that bleed zone so to speak and the first step to do this which i hinted at when we talked about resizing your book is that you actually need to choose an interior size that is slightly larger than your exterior size so this book is printed on the print on demand company as a 5x8 but when i go into my word document now you're seeing my screen we're back in the enchanted crown which is currently i believe a 5x8 which is not correct for the bleed feature when i want to add the book map to this if i submitted it to the print on demand company as is as an 8x5 they would reject it so what i'm going to do is go over to document and then you're going to click on page setup now this is what i showed you in the video all about sizing and resizing your book so right now it says it's size for a 5x8 and that's the title that i gave it but it also says 5.00 by 8.00 inches here at the bottom as well so what i'm gonna do is click on that scroll down i'm sorry i have so many things in here that you can't even see the button i'm gonna click but it says manage custom sizes so we're gonna click on that you can see that i've made some custom sizes here on the left already and i'm going to show you in a second how to do this but first let me take you over to the internet to kdp where i actually learned all about the bleed feature i would highly recommend you scroll through this and you do some research on it because they describe the bleed feature right here and they give you a lot of information about it as well as some mistakes that might happen and then they help you go in and how to calculate both your cover size and your interior formatting size so that's where we're going to go and focus on right down here in the interior specifications if you have no bleed you don't need to put in a map or anything that's going to go outside the margins you just use the size that you actually want your book to be but if you want to include bleed this is where they give you information to extend it by 0.125 inches beyond the actual trim size if you want to know more there's tons and tons and tons of information here that i think is going to be really valuable to you but we're going to keep the surface level and i'm just going to go ahead and go back to word and show you how to do this i made a bunch of them here okay so that's not right i'm going to delete that okay and this one says it's 5x8 but it's actually the correct size as well and this one says actual five by eight so that i could differentiate so i think i'm just gonna delete that one too this is me testing figuring it out you can play with it and then once you get it to the size that you want you can always go and check if you have oops oops oops cancel i almost forgot i almost always do this where i forget to change it to the whole document that leads to my final tip which is to always always always order a proof copy you would want to do that anyway i always recommend ordering a proof copy because you might be surprised by some unexpected formatting things that happen that do not look good when you see your physical copy of your book but in this specific instance it can be especially finicky and you can have some very unexpected surprises things that do not look right and so i always recommend ordering a proof copy which is exactly what it sounds like a copy of your book that you proof or proof read before you publish that way you don't have any awkward moments when your book is published and it looks terrible even if it ends up turning out amazing it's always good to order it just to be safe and then also of course you can use that proof copy to proof read it which is what it's for in the first place so if you want to know more about proof copies i have an entire video all about how i do proof copies and where you can order them and how you can set that up i will add that to the formatting playlist series below if you want to watch that after this video as you can see adding images is trickier than you would think so i hope this video has made it smoother for you if you do add images to your book i would love to see them if you ever want to tag me on instagram and this video is also going to be closely connected to the next video in this series on chapter headers specifically and making chapter header images that might even include artwork that are especially fancy and so these two videos are going to work hand in hand together so let's go into that video next [Music] you

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Length: 12min 29sec (749 seconds)

Published: Wed Feb 10 2021