Category: books

  • How to Scan Large Artwork for Books etc

    How do you scan artwork that is too big for your scanner? After my last video, showing how to scan artwork for children’s books, Danio Caw asked me how to scan artwork that is too big for the scanner. It depends how much too big. If the shorter side of the artwork is no bigger…

  • How to Scan your Artwork for Perfect Picture Book Illustration

    Scanning your own artwork can often result in a grey mush in the white areas of your illustration, making it look a bit lacklustre and lifeless. How to brighten it up and remove the grey edges? Kathleen Crawford contacted me and asked: Do you scan your own images into photoshop? I’d love to see a…

  • Designing the cover for my new children’s book – Generation Moon

    It’s time to think about the cover design for my new middle-grade space adventure trilogy – Generation Moon. This is a first go at it to see what happens. Often, a first attempt looks terrible, so you try everything else. But, eventually, you tend to come back to the first idea. In this video I…