Before you Begin: Professional Board Books

Getting Started with Professional Board Books

Make sure you followed these steps!

Organize your photos

Organize your photos

Having your photos organized on your computer or easily accessible on your phone or tablet will allow for a smooth board book building experience!

Set up an Account

Create an account

Create an account first so you can save your work and come back and edit your board book. Its simple, fast and FREE!

Create account

Save your work frequently

Save Your Work Frequently

Make sure as you are building your board book you save your work frequently. A good practice is to save after you complete a page or two. Make sure you are directed to the Saved Project area and click Continue Design to continue working.

 

 

 

Getting Started

Advanced Board Book Checklist

  • Your Design Software Program of Choice (Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator)
    Design Icons
  • Individual PDF spreads of the completed board book once designed from downloading our template
  • Credit Card for secure payment processing

Once you have the checklist above set, choose a professional board book from our library and start building

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Understanding the Board Book Interface

Professional Board Book Interface

1 - Editor

Use the editor to type out your messages, change images on each individual spread. 

2 - Minimize Editor

Use this icon to minimize the text and image editor.

3 - Trash

Use this icon trash text boxes or other places you may want to delete on the spread.

 

 

 

4 - Undo or Redo

Use the arrows to undo or redo changes on the page.

5 - Align to page

Use this icon change alignment of items on the page.

6 - Zoom

Use this icon to zoom in on elements on the page.

 

7 - Full Screen

Use this icon expand the board book interface to full screen. Press your escape button on your keyboard to exit.

8 - Finish Editing

Completes your editing and produces a final comp for you to review and approve to add to cart.

9 - Save for Later

The Save Button gives you the ability to save your work at any point to return to at a later date. Also, use this button frequently during the board book building process to avoid a session timeout in the backend of the interface. Saved for later books remain in the cart for 90 days from the last change date made and then are deleted.

 

10 - Cancel 

Cancels the work done on the page.

11 - Add/Upload PDF Spreads

Click on each image to upload your individual spread. Please note, you must upload the pdf spreads individually to each page. 

12 - Page Thumbnails and Image Uploader

Use this section to navigate between pages. Click on my images to upload all your images to add to the book or upload from Facebook.

 

 

 

Have Troubleshooting Questions? Review our FAQs

FAQs

 

 

Ready to start your board book?

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