Checkout these references to help make books in place of Albums.
Books app resources
Pages User Guide for iPad
Creating Digital Books on Mac and iPad
https://books.apple.com/us/book/creating-digital-books-on-mac-and-ipad/id1572547377 iPad User Guide - Files app, iCloud, Collaboration references
Venngage 20+ eBook Templates and Design Tips (ideas for your work)
https://venngage.com/blog/ebook-template/
You will need a reference for the Pages application, this is Apple’s free word processing and page layout app. This guide, is an example of a word processing book where readers can set font size and style for preferred reading. The text in this type of book “reflows” and a larger font increases the number of pages. Search will find text in this book. A page layout book, a picture book, has fixed pages and the text does not “reflow” or pages expand to accommodate larger text size. Search will find text in this book.
Why a book instead of an album in Photos?
- Your audience is not sitting on your couch
- Audience uses Windows or Android devices
- You want to make room on your device for new photos
- You want to include text, video and audio to your project
- Add interactive features, Image Gallery with captions
- Add links to web videos and web sites
- ...
Workflow suggestions
- Review your photo library, add captions for pictures you want to add to your book
- Review existing Photos albums for source material
- Review Pages app and the User Guide
- Practice with text styles and making modifications in page layout document
- In pages look at options to add media to your document
- Organize your project in the Files app > iCloud Drive > new folder for project
- Bring word processing files into iCloud for easy access
- Review landscape book templates offered when creating a new photo book
- Review portrait book templates for new text-based book
- Choose a template with placeholders and pictures options for your project
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Important steps in creating a book project
- Plan on practicing with features in a sampler document
- Mac users need to find a Windows user to install ePub Reader app & test sampler
- Collect assets (text, photos, presentation files, audio recordings/script …)
- Pictures can be captioned or added to an album in Photos app
- Keep web link contents in Notes app or a Pages app
- Archive Keynote presentation at full resolution
- Archive Keynote presentation as PDF - slides & handout
- Save a copy of Keynote presentations with Reduced Size option
- Export Keynote presentation as individual images
- Warmup your skills by working with a practice document
- Export an early version of several pages and open in Books app
- Revise template and workflow as needed
- Complete project
- Save ePub to iCloud and find sharable link
- Share ePub file using email and add text to mention the project, file size and how to open on iPad or a Windows computer
Features for your book
- Master Pages (blank, two-column, one-column, photo collage, cover)
- Text Styles (font, size, style)
- Placeholders (text, photos, gallery)
Template
- Page Layout style document
- Test text with styles and making modifications then updating style
- Styles to include: heading, body, caption, label, URL (new for us)
- Practice on a page with Image Gallery, add caption (accessibility feature)
- Practice on a page with collage of photo placeholders
- Practice page for table of contents
- Page with lorem ipsum text
- Add photo to lorem ipsum page and set text wrap
- Add photo to blank page with border style
- Create page with instructions on using features of this document
- Add Blank page for book cover
- Open template and rename document > 2022_book_practice.pages
- Touch buttons on top left, top right, to see features, menus, options
- Use left sidebar to rearrange pages (move cover to page 1)
- Use left sidebar to add new page - see available page templates
- Add a photo to image placeholder and adjust mask
- Add a new blank page, add text block and stylize, add photo
- Add shape and arrange layers - text block, photo and shape
iPad Activity 2.0
- Look at Master Page options and change the background color of the page
- Look at Master Pages and add a line or border (even layout grid)
- Close Master Page view
- Add two more pages with lorem ipsum text, edit heading, add some new text
- Add a new page then add Image Gallery (not included in a template)
- Set order of images in gallery, add Caption/Description for each photo
- Check page sequence
iPad Activity 3.0
- Export Pages document as ePub with Table of Contents
- Save to iCloud Drive project folder
- Open Files app and find ePub document, tap to open in Books app
- Explore the features included in your ebook
- Tap center of page to bring up top tools, bottom page thumbnails
- Test TOC jumps to page, Search finds text, Gallery flips images
iPad Activity 4.0
- Return to Pages app, open 2022_book_practice.pages
- Add a new blank page
- Add a web video
- Add a new blank page
- Add text and links to websites
- Export document as ePub with revised name
- Open Files app and tap to open revision in Books app
- Test new web content pages
- Take notes on what you want to include in your project
- Revise your practice document and Export as Pages Template
- Delete early version of the book in the Books app
- Delete early versions of your practice document
