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Arkham-Insanity — Making your own Book Tutorial

Published: 2011-11-17 16:41:39 +0000 UTC; Views: 50839; Favourites: 2406; Downloads: 420
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Description I whipped up this little tutorial for those who have asked how to set up or make their own mangas/comics and or booklets, when I was in college we learned how to hand make our own books to understand the layout and process.

They layout is the most important part when it comes to printing it and the next part of the tutorial will show how to do a simple saddle stitch binding. on your own only using two staples and a ruler.

This is the sort of thing I do at work all day, and yes for every book we make before it goes into the printing machines, we have to do a mock up by hand to make sure the page order is correct, so this is a good skill to learn if you wish to go into any sort of creative field and really is a lot of fun once you learn it since you can then make your own books easy
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Comments: 260

Like-a-Pike [2011-11-19 22:26:33 +0000 UTC]

Cool story, bro.

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TheToastyOne89 In reply to ??? [2011-11-19 18:04:43 +0000 UTC]

Very cool! Thanks

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duvessa121 In reply to ??? [2011-11-19 17:25:02 +0000 UTC]

Awesome thanks!

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Seaxofxroses In reply to ??? [2011-11-19 16:27:55 +0000 UTC]

Yes <3 Thank you <3

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biteme217 In reply to ??? [2011-11-19 15:03:32 +0000 UTC]

interesting

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CoolestNinja1242 In reply to ??? [2011-11-19 13:44:21 +0000 UTC]

Wait so what happens after you put the pages in

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AtticCreationz2 [2011-11-19 11:46:45 +0000 UTC]

Thank you for making this - it's exactly what i've been looking for ^^

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PoisonousTiger [2011-11-19 08:12:13 +0000 UTC]

Cool...now I just need to get someone to make a comic book with me..... (T_T can't really draw...)

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MidniteDancer-D [2011-11-18 23:37:12 +0000 UTC]

yaoi suddenly happens.
Yes it does.

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bluerobbin In reply to ??? [2011-11-18 20:30:25 +0000 UTC]

once upon a time there was a main charater...

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Shortbread1008 [2011-11-18 19:34:45 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much, this is so helpful!

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chenpath In reply to ??? [2011-11-18 19:29:37 +0000 UTC]

I like the suddenly Yaoi-effect. xD

This will help me a lot, thank you!

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ellenmellenn In reply to ??? [2011-11-18 18:18:43 +0000 UTC]

Awesome!!! Thanks so much!

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LunarThunderStorm In reply to ??? [2011-11-18 18:03:21 +0000 UTC]

Cool! Thank you for this tutorial!

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Dragonqueens [2011-11-18 18:01:19 +0000 UTC]

I may be a bit slow or something but I cant honestly say I see the pattern

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Supah-Panda In reply to ??? [2011-11-18 16:54:20 +0000 UTC]

"Yaoi suddenly happens"
*gigglesnort*.

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The-Lost-Hope In reply to ??? [2011-11-18 16:31:09 +0000 UTC]

Interesting tutorial. I like your little comments about what happens in it. lol

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tikeo [2011-11-18 16:25:40 +0000 UTC]

"Yaoi suddenly happens"

XD Nice one.

I've never really noticed that pattern in a book before. That's interesting. So what happens if there are to many pages? Say.. about 200. I don't think they are going to fold nicely around each other.

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AsjJohnson [2011-11-18 16:04:17 +0000 UTC]

I've been wanting to do this in the future, but what I did was come up with a formula for where what page goes. ...and I wrote it down on a piece of paper somewhere...
Whenever I find it, perhaps I should compare it with what you say here, to see if I did it right.

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black3825 [2011-11-18 14:45:50 +0000 UTC]

Arg! My entire day ruined when blank god suden yaoi with blank.

Also, the climax was cool with blank kicking blank's non-existant ass!

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mario0om In reply to ??? [2011-11-18 14:14:41 +0000 UTC]

2 hints
"cover of awsome book" so it must have purssia
and
"yaoi suddenly happens" so the only thing left to find out who is paired up with purssia
and awsome tutoral

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KayKatastr0phe [2011-11-18 13:31:55 +0000 UTC]

Very helpful! Thank you <3

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azuritecat [2011-11-18 10:09:17 +0000 UTC]

This is useful~ Thanks ^^

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aegis-of-justice [2011-11-18 06:18:41 +0000 UTC]

You have a fun job.

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MachiKonjo [2011-11-18 06:02:58 +0000 UTC]

You just made my day... this tutorial is so fun to read. >.<
*reads it again*

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wei-en [2011-11-18 05:16:42 +0000 UTC]

You could do that...I just do it in Publisher

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Arkham-Insanity In reply to wei-en [2011-11-18 13:38:14 +0000 UTC]

LOL yes that works too, but this is for those without design programs

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Crimm-Art [2011-11-18 05:07:38 +0000 UTC]

InDesign does this all for me.

*fist pump*

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Arkham-Insanity In reply to Crimm-Art [2011-11-18 13:39:11 +0000 UTC]

LOL!! so does Adobe Acrobat Professional which is what we use at work for big jobs, but this is for those who don't even have photoshop

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ilovedinosaurs300 [2011-11-18 04:56:26 +0000 UTC]

"yaoi suddenly happens" XD i love this

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UltimateSketchQueen [2011-11-18 04:51:09 +0000 UTC]

Oh hey, that's pretty nifty! : D
Thaaaaaaaaaaanks~

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Terrahilde [2011-11-18 04:46:34 +0000 UTC]

"yaoi suddenly happens"
i lol'd
this is extremely helpful, thank you!

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Lucian-Santana [2011-11-18 04:16:12 +0000 UTC]

Well, this will probably come in handy someday if I ever decide to do anything related to bookmaking.

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eagle7247 [2011-11-18 03:38:07 +0000 UTC]

hmmmm.....I am writing a book now.....maybe I will use this set up......hmmmmm.....

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RyuuseiRosuto [2011-11-18 03:14:26 +0000 UTC]

What kind of book are you making?!
i loled so hard... and ive made books like this before. It was a looooong time ago though...

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shewolfpup2000 [2011-11-18 03:08:17 +0000 UTC]

Oh man, I remember making books for my Graphics Design Class, What always confuse me were the page number set ups. D8

But thanks for the tutorial~ 8D

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andrielisilien [2011-11-18 03:07:22 +0000 UTC]

I already got my first volume completed and a second one is on the way!!! This is so fun

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Krlytz [2011-11-18 02:54:32 +0000 UTC]

This is really helpfull, Arkham. Thank you very much :3

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Mary-Black [2011-11-18 02:46:16 +0000 UTC]

YAOI SUDDENLY HAPPENS made me fav it ( o_o)-b

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LittleRedRidingShoe [2011-11-18 02:42:49 +0000 UTC]

!Thanks!

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caephire [2011-11-18 02:31:51 +0000 UTC]

Oh my gosh this is so helpful. xD

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MoonkinRage [2011-11-18 02:28:37 +0000 UTC]

"Cover of Awesome Book"

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xigglette [2011-11-18 02:23:40 +0000 UTC]

this was super helpful and cute at the same time lol

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ayachan12 [2011-11-18 02:17:23 +0000 UTC]

LOLOLOL, yaoi suddenly happens hahahaha WHAT KIND OF BOOK ARETCHU MAKING?

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Smitty-Mouse [2011-11-18 02:04:34 +0000 UTC]

I was a note taker in college for disabled students and one of my kids took this course in a media design class. You just put that professor to shame. X]

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wasabi-n-sushi [2011-11-18 02:00:33 +0000 UTC]

OMFG I LOVE THIS TUTORIAL I WILL MAKE MANGA NOW
If you don't devide it by four (lets say 13 not 12) then the blank pages would appear at the end rihgt? (or would they be like in the middle of the book o.o)
cause if they were in the end, you could always make use of them.

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ImWiththeUnicorn [2011-11-18 01:59:36 +0000 UTC]

"Suddenly yaoi happens."
XD

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AyameSuzuki [2011-11-18 01:33:17 +0000 UTC]

I LOVE YOU ><

I shall try this out.

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mindeyes13 [2011-11-18 01:14:54 +0000 UTC]

Cool tutorial, not something people would make a tutorial about. Thanks

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Kissy-Fishy [2011-11-18 01:00:29 +0000 UTC]

The "yaoi suddenly happens" made me laugh. That was great, and informative.

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