Amazon KDP Indesign - How To Recreate An Interior Using InDesign

About this video

RJ Martinez and Manny from Pixel Pod Studio do a live screen-share walkthrough recreating a book interior in Adobe InDesign using one of their templates — a humorous bathroom / guestbook-style book. Working entirely on master pages, Manny adds a dark 3% gray background, changes the interior table style to a white / paper cell fill so text stays readable, and edits character styles to change header and body text color and fonts. He activates an Adobe Font family called Good Life, updates the header in character styles so it propagates across both master pages, and adds funny sayings such as ’thank you for blessing us with your poop.’ For icons he recommends The Noun Project, noting he paid for the pro license — about 40 bucks for the year — for commercial use, and places a poop emoji icon as a watermark. He then inserts pages to build out the 150-page book, duplicating spreads from the finished masters, and shows adding a pattern background from a source like Envato Elements by sending it to the back and lowering opacity. The point stressed throughout is that templates are bare bones: understanding your niche and adding your own creative touches makes the interior stand out.

Key takeaways

• Build interiors on master pages: apply ’none’ to regular pages, set up the master once, and changes to character/table styles propagate through the whole document
• To put a colored background behind a table interior, send the background to the back and give the table cells a white/paper fill in the interior table style, otherwise content becomes unreadable
• Change fonts via character styles: activate the Adobe Font, update the header/body styles, and all master pages update automatically
• The Noun Project is presented as a source for simple icons, but commercial use on journals requires the paid pro license the hosts mention paying for
• Scale a finished master to a full book by inserting/duplicating spreads — the demo inserts 147 pages to reach 150 total — then save the recreated file for reuse

Episode details: published April 3, 2020 · 36:16 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are RJ Martinez’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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