How to use Master Pages to design Books | Adobe InDesign, Affinity Publisher Tutorial

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How to use Master Pages to design Books | Adobe InDesign, Affinity Publisher Tutorial

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[pearlre]

All of your videos tutorial are amazing. Thank you so much for putting in lots of time to show us how to use and manipulate the software. I really appreciate your effort and dedication to making us more comfortable using the software. Keep up the good excellent work. This is very helpful for me because I going to purchase the Affinity software and gave me a lot of ideas on how to work with it. Again thank you so much

[SeanPDurham]

Great video - I've seen a few master pages vids, and your way of explaining things makes it simple. I could work on my pages as you spoke, and I got it all correct! Thanks, Sean

[eastowest]

This is excellent -- thank you! Just a note for Windows users -- use Shift Control W to turn guides on and off

[stcats]

BRILLIANT THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR CLARIFYING THAT PROCESS..
ANDY DUBLIN

[ktanderson]

Thanks for adding indesign tutorials to your video palette!

[HurdnelsenAugustin]

Thanks for the tuto..🎉 Can we add multiple master pages on one single page?

[jordanlotus]

very very nice work. please make on different type of binding methods and how to do it details.

[davet]

Very useful and well explained. Thanks. Is there somewhere in your range of tutorials that shows you how to get the end product printed as a photo book?

[stephenhunt]

Great video. I am very new to this so this is very helpful. Great tutorial.

[NeilNathan]

Thank you for the tutorial. I have been looking for a way to create PDF's. This looks like a compelling option. Have you had any experience creating Whitewall photo books with Affinity Publisher using the Master Pages technique? Is it possible to create a Master Page with a photo grid that automatically changes aspect ratio, if not, is it possible to change the Aspect Ratio of the grid on an individual page to fit a photos specific aspect ratio. Also, I have used online and desktop tools from various photo book companies but I have not found one where when the photos are uploaded/imported into the book that the photo meta data for example the photo Title can be automatically added to a text field on the page. Is this possible with Affinity Publisher? I keyword, title and caption each photo in Lightroom and it is quite annoying to have to manually copy the texts for each photo into the book.

[nounix]

Hi Three very quick questions please 🙏(well, the required replies are short/quick lol!):

1) If I want to apply a black background to all pages of my document via a master page, the only way to do this is to create a rectangle with a black fill and drag it to cover the entire master page's white canvas (and apply this master page to all the pages), correct?

(*ie. There's no way to just set black as the default canvas color for this document, or for the master page which will be applied to all pages.)


2) If I want to apply different elements to the document's pages (eg. page numbers / black background rectangle / shape), for EACH element I want to apply to the rest of the pages, I should create a SEPARATE master page for it, right?

(*ie. I should not create ONE master page which contains ALL the different elements I want to apply throughout the document, and just apply this master to all the pages - because if the master has a black rectangle background, and a page number, in it, I would want the black rectangle to be the lowest layer on each page, while the page number on the top of the list..)


3) How do I "tell" the app on what LAYER LEVEL to apply the master page in the pages that it's applied to (given that the master page, as opposed to the rest of the pages, only contains ONE layer: the element that will be applied throughout the document - eg. a page-number layer on its own)?

(*eg. if all the pages have photos that take up the entire page - so each page has multiple layers of photos - if I want to apply a page number to all these pages, this applied layer needs to be ABOVE all the pages' layers so that the page numbers are visible. But, by default, AP applies this page-number layer on the master to the BOTTOM of the layers' list of each page, making the page number invisible as it's hidden behind the all photos' layers which cover each page! So to fix this, the only way I see possible, is to MANUALLY drag the page-number layer to the top of the layers' list for EACH of the 100+ pages... :
🙄 Which of course beats the purpose of master page instant global application lol)


THANK YOU!!

[GabZelle]

maybe its because I´m using an older version but i cant change the text except if i detach it from the master layout. But then it won´t be updated if I change the sytle in the master layout. Is there a way to handle this?