How to design booklet cover [4]

How to design booklet cover [4] : Paper size

Choosing paper size play important role in how to design booklet cover.
By this, arranging texts and designing layout will be easier.

Paper standard is separate into 2 type :-

ISO 216 A series paper sizes

A series paper sizes are the most popular paper size. Worldwide standard for home printers and scanners is A4 size paper. With the decreasing of number, the size of paper will be doubled.

As you can see in the following chart:-

Size	millimeters	inches
A0	841mm x 1189mm	33.1" x 46.8"
A1	594mm x 841mm	23.4" x 33.1"
A2	420mm x 594mm	16.5" x 23.4"
A3	297mm x 420mm	11.7" x 16.5"
A4	210mm x 297mm	8.3" x 11.7"
A5	148mm x 210mm	5.8" x 8.3"
A6	105mm x 148mm	4.1" x 5.8"
A7	74mm x 105mm	2.9" x 4.1"
A8	52mm x 74mm	2.0" x 2.9"
A9	37mm x 52mm	1.5" x 2.0"
A10	26mm x 37mm	1.0" x 1.5"

ISO 216 B series paper sizes

B sizes are less popular. In printing and publishing business, B series are more popular than A series. We used B5 in books, included booklet covers :D . Letters, envelopes and passports are also using B series paper size.

Size	millimeters	inches
B0	1000mm x 1414mm	39.4" x 55.7"
B1	707mm x 1000mm	27.8" x 39.4"
B2	500mm x 707mm	19.7" x 27.8"
B3	353mm x 500mm	13.9" x 19.7"
B4	250mm x 353mm	9.8" x 13.9"
B5	176mm x 250mm	6.9" x 9.8"
B6	125mm x 176mm	4.9" x 6.9"
B7	88mm x 125mm	3.5" x 4.9"
B8	62mm x 88mm	2.4" x 3.5"
B9	44mm x 62mm	1.7" x 2.4"
B10	31mm x 44mm	1.2" x 1.7"

How to select paper size for your booklet cover in Adobe Photoshop

Select > Preset

You can choose between U.S paper and International Paper.

Basically, we used International paper. [easier to set and understand :)]

International paper > select your paper size!

In this blog, we're using B5.

By the way. if you wanna customize by yourself.

I prefer the easy way to calculate your paper size in the following link...

http://papersize.co.uk/iso-216-paper-sizes.php

From the calculated size, you can use it in PS by...

Select custom > and input your calculated Width and Height. :D

That's it for selecting a paper size.

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How to design booklet cover [3]

How to design booklet cover [3] : Set the color!

After you made a decision of how your work will be printed.
The next step of how to design booklet cover will be on how to set the color.

Tool  :

Adobe Photoshop and Adobe InDesign :)

version is not specified but CS3 and above will be better 

I'm using both of them in CS5 ver.

What color you need to be set?

I'm not talking about the color in your work/design.

But the colors of ink that need to be used.

The following covers are comparison of each type of color

Bitmap - black and white for xerox process

CMYK - for normal colored printing

Grayscale - normal black and white printing

You can see the different between these 3 process :D

Normally, printing business used CMYK.

CMYK stands for cyan, magenta, yellow and black.

combination of these colors resulted a nice colored book

You may think that why don't we use gray scale to print a black and white work and just xerox it.

The answer is xerox process has low resolution and will not be able to print a detailed grayscale.

HOW TO SET >>

You can select the color from Color Mode:

select it based on your artwork!

Define the resolution also important...

300 pixels/inch suits for printed work.

while 72 pixels/inch suits for web design and computer graphic.

That's it for selecting color!

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