Design

Designing Self Publishing

“Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs” – Farrah Gray

So, you have drawings or pictures and stories to tell,

What if …

• Self-publishing
  • No revenue share with publishers
• Faster Preview and Publish
• Creating within Adobe Photoshop

Kwik is an extension(plugin) for Adobe Photoshop to simplify the creation of iOS and Android app. You can create interactive, animated visual content within Photoshop.

Kwik generates source codes and assets for Solar2D SDK that builds binary files of applications. You can build apps for iOS, Android, Mac & Windows.

Kwik version 4.4.x of the full functionalities is a download for free available since Feb 2022.

This chapter tells about designing, marketing, overview how to use Kwik for making apps

• Overview of self-service app publishing

• Marketing

  it starts before planing the app

  • planing, learning, making, submitting

  Marketing is not one time task

  • It starts before planning an app
  • It costs more than developing one app
  • It is key for success to publish more than one app on your bookshelf - a collection of stories.

• Learning

  Digital Painting

  • https://www.svslearn.com

    Society of Visual StoryTelling offers good painting tutorials.

  • https://folioacademy.com/

    I found the following video tutorials of Will Terry very helpful

    • Drawing & Painting
      • Beginning Drawing
      • Beginning Photoshop
      • Digital Painting In Photoshop
      • How To Design A Drawing
      • How To Illustrate Children Books
      • Painting On The iPad

  Making App With No Coding Tool

  • PC

    • Photoshop

      • Kwik

    • Solar2D

• Designing

  • plan
  • organize
  • arrange

• Creating

  avoiding “design on the fly” in your workflow of production

  • making ideas, sketching
  • writing manuscripts
  • illustrating worlds
  • sketching thumbnails
  • sketching final each page
  • rendering

• Submitting your final work for

  • app store
  • promotion

Mission

Kwiksher programs software for creators, artists, designers to publish picture book applications on their own

Become a sponsor to Kwiksher

Our goal is to have 100 sponsors. It would mean the world to have more visual storytelling apps!

• https://github.com/sponsors/kwiksher