Hi Paul, I was looking for the link to Affinity in your description above, but I don't see it. I wanted to buy it through your link if you were an Affiliate to make make sure you get the credit.
I just finish uploading my scissors skill book today. It still in a review. Love ur content and tips. Im following ur method and i got 2 or 3 sell for a day now.. i got a total of 17 books now. Only three of them are selling for now.
Paul, Thank You!! I first saw your channel 3 weeks ago. I still cannot put a dashed line around a graphic ;) but I watched enough of your videos to figure out how to assemble a Scissor Skills book. It is currently uploading. I spent at least 50 hours creating it and it was FUN!! I noticed one author uploaded 10 Scissor skills books on March 4th. I wonder if your video was their motivation too. I am not a rabbit but a turtle;) and Quality to me counts over quantity. I set myself a two year goal. You are 100 percent the spark that started this new adventure. THANK YOU 😊
HE REALLY KNOWS HIS STUFF EVERYONE! IVE LEARNED SO MUCH VALUABLE INFO FROM WATCHING HIS CHANNEL!! I've watched this video several times( there's a handful of your videos I reference often) But something you said just hit me like a ton of bricks and I think I just got a fanominal idea!!:) Thanks again for all your great advice!
Loved it! I've already got 80 notebooks up and 30 12 and 6 stave 200 page sheet music books up. I'm slowly trying everything you're generously demonstrating. I've not been going a month yet and have sold a book, so although I only made 99p, I'm encouraged. Thanks Paul.
Hey Paul, do you remember paper dolls? Not sure if they are popular now but they were with girls when I was much younger. I was thinking that the cut and glue niche could incorporate what paper dolls did best; that is adding accessories like hats and clothes or whatever to your cutouts.
Thanks Paul! now I have time to dedicate myself to this, my employment contract expired! to reinvent myself! Thank goodness I've been seeing you for months!
I was thinking the same. In Illustrator you would do this: 1) copy and combine all shapes into one shape which will give you an outline. 2) go to Object> Path> Offset path.... and input a positive number. 3) change the line to a dashed line.
HI ich bin aus deutschland, kannst du mir sagen mit welchem programm ich das machen kann, PS oder AI, PS beherrsche ich ganz gut, illusrator nicht so. So wie er das gezeigt hat ist einfach aber ich habe mit dem Programm noch nie gearbeitet. Gruss Sascha
@@saschaboguslawski9135 Am besten ist ein Programm, das Vektor unterstützt. Affinity Designer ist absolut genial dafür. AD kombiniert die meisten Funktionen von PS mit AI in einer Software. Gibt super Tutorials hier on YT für Affinity Designer.
@@saschaboguslawski9135mit "Affinity Designer pent tool" findest du einige Tutorials, um die Vektor Werkzeuge kennenzulernen. Mit "Affinity Designer KDP" werden Tutorials angezeigt, die sich mit der Bearbeitung von Interieur und Cover für KDP befassen. Zum Beispiel gibt Rachel Harrison-Sund ausführliche Erklärungen, wie man zum Beispiel mit dem Affinity Publisher (Alternative zu Adobe InDesign) Interieurs zusammenstellen kann. Ansonsten kann ich absolut empfehlen, die Hilfe-Dokumente von Affinity zu lesen. affinity.help/designer/de.lproj/index.html# und deren Tutorials affinity.serif.com/de/tutorials/designer/desktop/
Paul, I almost died laughing because I was sitting with a friend here talking about KDP and I said, "you should try Affinity Designer, it is very, very similar to Adobe Illustrator which really is the 'gold standard' for this stuff", then I said, "oh, Paul's got his follow up video, maybe he will use Affinity Designer! Let's watch it.". I get it started and we start watching and after you said "gold standard", my friend eyed me suspiciously, then you went into AD! It was pretty funny! Anyway, thank you. One thing I thoroughly enjoy about ALL of your videos is how thorough you are in your walk throughs. I will be putting one of these out, for sure! Thanks again for all of your time in sharing this and all of the research you do. 😉💖👍
im all over this one today. but I am making dotted line around an animal now and it has curves and I just don't understand the word you said before points as in how to get the line not to just be straight with a pen and to make it curve around image....
Paul, in Affinity, look for a function called "Offset Path" or something similar to it. You can save time by outlining your object and then offsetting the path to make the dashed line. I don't know Affinity at all but I am getting tired of paying 24.00 US per month to Adobe so I will look into it!
This is the one thing I wish affinity had. As far as I’ve found they don’t have a “path” function. I was looking for it to make connect the dots easily, but in the forums I found other people saying affinity doesn’t have it. Maybe in the future they will as they do update a lot. I have all the affinity products.. closest is in publisher you can make a dotted or dashed lines with their basic shapes tool, but not from a file/picture of any kind.
@Mark Take a look into Affinity Designer 1.9 which has now the „contour tool“ which comes pretty near to „offset path“. Duplicte a shape you want to have a cut out line around and set a contour radius with an dotted outline.
Do you know how to tell you are a professional? You make it look SO EASY.. Tracing those little dots around the item is HARD. I just spent two hours and it looks horrible :) and WOW you can spend hours looking for graphics and most are not Full POD.. Best of luck to all who want to try this.. it is not as easy as he makes it look, He is a genius and a true professional
Thank you, that’s very kind of you. On Creative Fabrica, in the left hand side menu you can tick the POD box so it only brings up print on demand graphics.
Hey I’m still working on my scissor books was wondering how many pages people are making their books as I’m still learning affinity designer I’m just now picking up speed but wanted to get an idea of how many different pages I should aim to make if I want to make a few different books.
Hi Paul! I’m in the process of learning how to use Affinity Designer and I’m looking forward to creating a scissor cutting book! Thank you so much for the helpful video!
I saw in another video you use Gravit Designer... Can you still use Affinity Designer to make the coloring pages... And having the ability to sharpen the corners or Round the corners like you demonstrated?? ~~ or, do you need Both?
Hey so I sold a book like 3 times a month, but then I didn’t sell it anymore for the next month and then I sold it once the next month after that ... it is not stable :(
But that will happen with low sale numbers. You can vary between a few and zero quite normally. The same as if you’re selling 1000 one month you can go down to half that or less the next month and then pick up the next. The way to overcome the variability is to create more books and give it time. It can sometimes take months for a book to build up traction.
also when I took an image from vecteezy and Brought to affinity design a single image it doesn't show the different layers and therefore I can't do the steps to just turn it into black and white outline....not really sure how to transform image if under layers it only has the complete image with no color breakdown
Make sure you're trying to edit a vector file and not an image file. Vectors are usually svg, ai or eps. It sounds like you're trying to edit a jpg file.
Yes, make sure it’s a vector. If you still can’t separate them then you probably need to ungroup them - put a bounding box around everything and then shift + cmd + g
Lovely! Thank you Paul for the informative video, again :-) I got to agree Affinity Designer is a really good software and nice that you showed how to use Keynote for the interior too. A quick question: Why not open a blank 80 pages 8.5X11" PDF download from, say from bookbolt, and edit in Affinity designer as artboards, before exporting the manuscript or interior as PDF print for KDP directly?
@@paulmarles You are right. Based on my experience with both AD and Keynote, Keynote is indeed neater and stabler. I guess for most low content books, Keynote is excellent. However, in my case, I still have to use AD artboards because Keynote export somehow will reduce color image quality :-)
hey I have been using affinity designer I took an image from vecteezy it was a group of dogs heads and I wanted to separate them I tried to just click as you have done but nothing is happening. somehow I did it with images of scissors just by doing group and ungroup but it's not working. any way to get more details on how to separate when vectors aren't just moving apart
Thank u Capitan for useful video ...I'd ask about infinity and in design which is useful for premium design and is this way with dots can we make it by Ps ??? Thanks in advance
@@paulmarles I meant ...in ur opinion which program is useful for nice design in general "infinity" Or "InDesign" ???? and asked about the dots u made in this video can i make it by Photoshop???
when it comes to notebooks and logbook can you make the same cover and make it different colouring with just plain line in both just a same cover with different colour
Hi 👋 Paul thanks for your valuable experience sharing I need to take you advice in a situation repetitively occurred to me after I tried to follow up your steps and publish my book each time on the 1st week of publishing I got 1 or 2 sales and after that the sales stopped forever I do not know why even for niches with high demand low competition and very prefosstional cover and unique interior
Hi, I hope you're having a great day. I have a question. I live in Iran where KDP doesn't work. I wanted to use my aunt's bank account and phone number (Canada) but realized I had to put in her entire tax info and she got scared and said it's too risky and that her accountant always tells her to never put that information anywhere online. I was wondering, does everyone have to do this? Why should one put that much detailed info in anyway?! because of this I had to give up on KDP as a whole and I'm very upset :(
Thank you for this video! A bit off topic: have you received an invitation from amazon to try hard-cover publishing? I've got one yesterday. I wonder what you think of and how it fits the LCB/NCB model.
Great and detailed video. I think I would just make my own vector images using Inkscape since I don't have any of the other softwares. Question, you started inserting the images into the document at page 1, but shouldn't the first couple of pages be reserved for the cover design? Or do you just create the interior separately and then merge it in another document that contains the cover images?
Paul, I have a question. When you create a book like that and Publish it on Amazon, in its description, If you say that the book has 80 pages, that means that would be 40 sheets of paper with the design, (since the other page is blank), or would be 80 designs in 80 sheets of paper?
Awesome video! Thanks Paul. Can I ask where you learned to use the affinity software? I really need to learn more about it, so might get affinity as it’s a one off payment and learn how to use that properly. I have photoshop but for some reason it won’t load, and it totally baffles me!
Photoshop is so powerful. You can look on the Adobe Photoshop forum and search to see if others had that problem already, and what they fix was, or just call Adobe, their help desk is great!
One thing you might mention sometime is about the difference between linked and embedded images. I learned a very hard lesson to use embedded! My files were linked and then some how- God only knows- the file got deleted from my Dropbox and therefore the whole book I had spent weeks modifying couldn't be exported- it said files missing. What's worse is that I couldn't remember where I bought the files from so I couldn't just re- download them. Weeks of work gone. SO-2 lessons- 1. embed the files, and 2. keep a spreadsheet of everything I buy and where I bought it from!!
Hello Paul, I love your videos. Thank you for sharing your experiences, and making it more simple than it looks! I was wondering if the subscription option for Creative Fabrica should be only Graphics for KDP or the even fonts or the whole package? Thanks, Amy.
Creative Fabrica have a few different subscription packages. Depending on what you need. I use mine mainly for the graphics but I have the whole package in case I want fonts.
I just wonder that if this is so simple and successful and thousands of viewers follow the instructions and publish their books, wouldn't that flood the market, increase the competition, and therefore reduce sales for individuals? My view is that if it looks too good to be true, it usually is. In all the comments to the different videos, I have not seen any reports of increased sales for those who have followed the techniques shown on the set of videos. Good advertisements for the commercial software for creating the books, and if the guy has an affiliate link to this commercial software and is making some money off it, then he can be compared to the owner of the general store in the goldfields, who made more money than most of the miners themselves!
It obviously makes sense to leave blank pages when doing Scissor Skills books, but are you likely to run into problems with KDP because of leaving so many blank pages?
This video is full of knowledge. I've been trying to research for a TH-cam vid like yours that breaks down the topics in this TH-cam video! 🥼Your video actually reminds me of the content of Doctor Ethan! Dr's demonstrations are totally insightful and I learned a lot for my finals! He is the most informative med student on TH-cam and he talks about health symptoms. I suggest you watch his page out and give the Doctor a like! 👉 #DoctorEthanTH-cam
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Hi Paul, I was looking for the link to Affinity in your description above, but I don't see it. I wanted to buy it through your link if you were an Affiliate to make make sure you get the credit.
Done:)
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I just finish uploading my scissors skill book today. It still in a review. Love ur content and tips. Im following ur method and i got 2 or 3 sell for a day now.. i got a total of 17 books now. Only three of them are selling for now.
Congratulations. Good work 👍👍
What was the paper type selected for the book? Same as a lined notebook?
I love how simple this can be (i will of course over complicate it)
Same!
😆 Good luck 👍
Same! 😤🤭
This is such a mood Lmaooooooo
Paul, Thank You!! I first saw your channel 3 weeks ago. I still cannot put a dashed line around a graphic ;) but I watched enough of your videos to figure out how to assemble a Scissor Skills book. It is currently uploading. I spent at least 50 hours creating it and it was FUN!! I noticed one author uploaded 10 Scissor skills books on March 4th. I wonder if your video was their motivation too. I am not a rabbit but a turtle;) and Quality to me counts over quantity. I set myself a two year goal. You are 100 percent the spark that started this new adventure. THANK YOU 😊
Congratulations! Quality is definitely better than quantity.
HE REALLY KNOWS HIS STUFF EVERYONE! IVE LEARNED SO MUCH VALUABLE INFO FROM WATCHING HIS CHANNEL!!
I've watched this video several times( there's a handful of your videos I reference often) But something you said just hit me like a ton of bricks and I think I just got a fanominal idea!!:) Thanks again for all your great advice!
Thank you 🙏
Loved it! I've already got 80 notebooks up and 30 12 and 6 stave 200 page sheet music books up. I'm slowly trying everything you're generously demonstrating. I've not been going a month yet and have sold a book, so although I only made 99p, I'm encouraged. Thanks Paul.
Hey Paul, do you remember paper dolls? Not sure if they are popular now but they were with girls when I was much younger. I was thinking that the cut and glue niche could incorporate what paper dolls did best; that is adding accessories like hats and clothes or whatever to your cutouts.
Excellent idea 👍👍👍
I will definitely make this one, im uploading my first coloring book today im still new in this. Thank you from South Africa
Best of luck!
Thanks Paul! now I have time to dedicate myself to this, my employment contract expired! to reinvent myself! Thank goodness I've been seeing you for months!
That’s great. Good luck 👍
with some objects you can save time when you select it, make it bigger and then make dotted lines of it. greetings from germany
I was thinking the same. In Illustrator you would do this: 1) copy and combine all shapes into one shape which will give you an outline. 2) go to Object> Path> Offset path.... and input a positive number. 3) change the line to a dashed line.
HI ich bin aus deutschland, kannst du mir sagen mit welchem programm ich das machen kann, PS oder AI, PS beherrsche ich ganz gut, illusrator nicht so. So wie er das gezeigt hat ist einfach aber ich habe mit dem Programm noch nie gearbeitet. Gruss Sascha
@@saschaboguslawski9135 Am besten ist ein Programm, das Vektor unterstützt. Affinity Designer ist absolut genial dafür. AD kombiniert die meisten Funktionen von PS mit AI in einer Software. Gibt super Tutorials hier on YT für Affinity Designer.
@@BirgitOlzem Was muss ich da suchen bei YT ? was muss ich eingeben?
@@saschaboguslawski9135mit "Affinity Designer pent tool" findest du einige Tutorials, um die Vektor Werkzeuge kennenzulernen. Mit "Affinity Designer KDP" werden Tutorials angezeigt, die sich mit der Bearbeitung von Interieur und Cover für KDP befassen. Zum Beispiel gibt Rachel Harrison-Sund ausführliche Erklärungen, wie man zum Beispiel mit dem Affinity Publisher (Alternative zu Adobe InDesign) Interieurs zusammenstellen kann. Ansonsten kann ich absolut empfehlen, die Hilfe-Dokumente von Affinity zu lesen. affinity.help/designer/de.lproj/index.html# und deren Tutorials affinity.serif.com/de/tutorials/designer/desktop/
Paul, I almost died laughing because I was sitting with a friend here talking about KDP and I said, "you should try Affinity Designer, it is very, very similar to Adobe Illustrator which really is the 'gold standard' for this stuff", then I said, "oh, Paul's got his follow up video, maybe he will use Affinity Designer! Let's watch it.". I get it started and we start watching and after you said "gold standard", my friend eyed me suspiciously, then you went into AD! It was pretty funny! Anyway, thank you. One thing I thoroughly enjoy about ALL of your videos is how thorough you are in your walk throughs. I will be putting one of these out, for sure! Thanks again for all of your time in sharing this and all of the research you do. 😉💖👍
Haha, that is funny! You are thinking in the KDP mindset now. 😆 Thank you for watching and glad you found it useful.
If you operate with vector instead of draw cut lines yourself you can duplicate picture and edit them to look as cut lines
i am unable to move the components in affinity designer ,please solve this problem
im all over this one today. but I am making dotted line around an animal now and it has curves and I just don't understand the word you said before points as in how to get the line not to just be straight with a pen and to make it curve around image....
Bezier controls.
Hi Paul, , and try to see everyone of your videos, blessings from Mexico
Thank you and welcome from Mexico!
Would it be good to have a blank Page for cutting and a Page to glue and color them in?
as into my mind !!
Yes, you could do that.
Thank you for this amazing video
I just got my first 2 sales
is there any way to increase sales without ads?
Congratulations. That’s great. You could build an author central page, build social media following and links.
By the way I got this sales according to your effective pieces of advice thank you so much for all . Keep the good job up, you're the best.
Paul, in Affinity, look for a function called "Offset Path" or something similar to it. You can save time by outlining your object and then offsetting the path to make the dashed line. I don't know Affinity at all but I am getting tired of paying 24.00 US per month to Adobe so I will look into it!
This is the one thing I wish affinity had. As far as I’ve found they don’t have a “path” function. I was looking for it to make connect the dots easily, but in the forums I found other people saying affinity doesn’t have it. Maybe in the future they will as they do update a lot. I have all the affinity products.. closest is in publisher you can make a dotted or dashed lines with their basic shapes tool, but not from a file/picture of any kind.
@Mark Take a look into Affinity Designer 1.9 which has now the „contour tool“ which comes pretty near to „offset path“. Duplicte a shape you want to have a cut out line around and set a contour radius with an dotted outline.
@@BirgitOlzem Thanks Birgit! I know this wasn't a reply to me, but I'm glad you mentioned this. I didn't know about it yet. :)
@@BirgitOlzem Thanks. Now that I know it exists, I'll give it a try.
Very informative Cap'n. Would you suggest a bigger margin on the right hand page (image page) so kids have more room to cut around the images?
I don’t think so.
This is amazing. I'm going to try this. I'm going to make my shape in Keynote... Thank you!
You're welcome. Good luck!
Do you know how to tell you are a professional? You make it look SO EASY.. Tracing those little dots around the item is HARD. I just spent two hours and it looks horrible :) and WOW you can spend hours looking for graphics and most are not Full POD.. Best of luck to all who want to try this.. it is not as easy as he makes it look, He is a genius and a true professional
Thank you, that’s very kind of you. On Creative Fabrica, in the left hand side menu you can tick the POD box so it only brings up print on demand graphics.
Try Inkscape.
@@ArtDesignHobby thank you!! I will
Hey I’m still working on my scissor books was wondering how many pages people are making their books as I’m still learning affinity designer I’m just now picking up speed but wanted to get an idea of how many different pages I should aim to make if I want to make a few different books.
The best thing to do is look at the other books that are selling well and see how many pages they have to get an idea.
Thank you so much for this video, easy and helpful.
You’re welcome. 😊
Hi Paul! I’m in the process of learning how to use Affinity Designer and I’m looking forward to creating a scissor cutting book! Thank you so much for the helpful video!
You're welcome. Glad you found it helpful.
A simple and comprehensive explanation .. Thank you for the translation into Arabic
You’re welcome. Thank you for watching.
Great video! Can this also be done in google slides?
You can't edit the image in the way shown in this video as you need vector editing software to do it.
Hi
Can we do all this in adobe illustrator?
I want to do the cut and glue
Can i do it on adobe the same way you do it?
Yes, absolutely.
I saw in another video you use Gravit Designer... Can you still use Affinity Designer to make the coloring pages... And having the ability to sharpen the corners or Round the corners like you demonstrated??
~~ or, do you need Both?
This was done on Affinity Designer. No, you don’t need both.
Thank you so much CAPTAIN PAUL ❤
Hey so I sold a book like 3 times a month, but then I didn’t sell it anymore for the next month and then I sold it once the next month after that ... it is not stable :(
But that will happen with low sale numbers. You can vary between a few and zero quite normally. The same as if you’re selling 1000 one month you can go down to half that or less the next month and then pick up the next. The way to overcome the variability is to create more books and give it time. It can sometimes take months for a book to build up traction.
i cant figure out how to take the background out or outline the Image
Set the fill to white and stroke to black.
Thank you...
New subscriber, Thanks for the explanation
You're welcome and thank you for subscribing.
also when I took an image from vecteezy and Brought to affinity design a single image it doesn't show the different layers and therefore I can't do the steps to just turn it into black and white outline....not really sure how to transform image if under layers it only has the complete image with no color breakdown
Make sure you're trying to edit a vector file and not an image file. Vectors are usually svg, ai or eps. It sounds like you're trying to edit a jpg file.
@@Spyro_2076 THANK YOU!!!
@@enz301 cheers :)
Yes, make sure it’s a vector. If you still can’t separate them then you probably need to ungroup them - put a bounding box around everything and then shift + cmd + g
Lovely! Thank you Paul for the informative video, again :-) I got to agree Affinity Designer is a really good software and nice that you showed how to use Keynote for the interior too. A quick question: Why not open a blank 80 pages 8.5X11" PDF download from, say from bookbolt, and edit in Affinity designer as artboards, before exporting the manuscript or interior as PDF print for KDP directly?
You could but might get a bit messy with all those artboards open.
@@paulmarles You are right. Based on my experience with both AD and Keynote, Keynote is indeed neater and stabler. I guess for most low content books, Keynote is excellent. However, in my case, I still have to use AD artboards because Keynote export somehow will reduce color image quality :-)
hey I have been using affinity designer I took an image from vecteezy it was a group of dogs heads and I wanted to separate them I tried to just click as you have done but nothing is happening. somehow I did it with images of scissors just by doing group and ungroup but it's not working. any way to get more details on how to separate when vectors aren't just moving apart
I saw some TH-camrs use crop on canva to separate images like this.
I think your question was answered in another comment you made.
Can you do the same with png files?
No. You would have to convert them to vector files first with a tool like Image Trace in Adobe Illustrator.
Thank u Capitan for useful video ...I'd ask about infinity and in design which is useful for premium design and is this way with dots can we make it by Ps ??? Thanks in advance
I’m sorry, I don’t understand your question. Could you re-phrase it?
@@paulmarles I meant ...in ur opinion which program is useful for nice design in general "infinity" Or "InDesign" ???? and asked about the dots u made in this video can i make it by Photoshop???
I don’t use in design. For design work affinity designer is better. You should be able to do it in photoshop I think.
@@paulmarles Thank a lot Paul 4 ur reply and attention and for ur useful videos
when it comes to notebooks and logbook can you make the same cover and make it different colouring with just plain line in both just a same cover with different colour
Yes, I guess so.
Fantastic work 😎
Thank you 🙏
Thank you 🙏
What software did u use for editing books?
Affinity Designer.
Do you have a course
Not yet but sometime soon hopefully.
THANKS for the new pieces of information
You’re welcome.
Hi 👋 Paul thanks for your valuable experience sharing
I need to take you advice in a situation repetitively occurred to me after I tried to follow up your steps and publish my book each time on the 1st week of publishing I got 1 or 2 sales and after that the sales stopped forever I do not know why even for niches with high demand low competition and very prefosstional cover and unique interior
If people aren’t buying them then it’s usually the cover. Providing it is ranking in the searches. They may not be.
@@paulmarles ok I understand, Thanks
Hi, I hope you're having a great day.
I have a question. I live in Iran where KDP doesn't work. I wanted to use my aunt's bank account and phone number (Canada) but realized I had to put in her entire tax info and she got scared and said it's too risky and that her accountant always tells her to never put that information anywhere online.
I was wondering, does everyone have to do this? Why should one put that much detailed info in anyway?! because of this I had to give up on KDP as a whole and I'm very upset :(
Yes, everyone has to do it. It’s a requirement of KDP.
Thank you for this video!
A bit off topic: have you received an invitation from amazon to try hard-cover publishing? I've got one yesterday. I wonder what you think of and how it fits the LCB/NCB model.
No, not received anything yet. Sounds interesting. There certainly could be a market for them.
SORRY NOT SORRY BUT... I'm gonna pop over and use your Sons link to Creative Fabrica, LOL, I appreciate you but we gotta support the youth first :-)
Great and detailed video. I think I would just make my own vector images using Inkscape since I don't have any of the other softwares. Question, you started inserting the images into the document at page 1, but shouldn't the first couple of pages be reserved for the cover design? Or do you just create the interior separately and then merge it in another document that contains the cover images?
No. You upload the interior design and cover design to KDP as two separate files. They are created independently.
keyword download link not working
On Gumroad? On TH-cam? Can you be a bit more specific?
@@paulmarles It worked by manually searching on Gumroad. Thanks anyway.
Paul, I have a question. When you create a book like that and Publish it on Amazon, in its description, If you say that the book has 80 pages, that means that would be 40 sheets of paper with the design, (since the other page is blank), or would be 80 designs in 80 sheets of paper?
80 pages would be 40 sheets of paper.
Maybe it is a strange question but i want to be sure - Can i log in to my Amazon KDP account using different computer?
Yes.
Awesome video! Thanks Paul. Can I ask where you learned to use the affinity software? I really need to learn more about it, so might get affinity as it’s a one off payment and learn how to use that properly. I have photoshop but for some reason it won’t load, and it totally baffles me!
Photoshop is so powerful. You can look on the Adobe Photoshop forum and search to see if others had that problem already, and what they fix was, or just call Adobe, their help desk is great!
I’m very familiar with Adobe Illustrator so using Affinity Designer was very similar.
What kind of images are you downloading? Pdfs? Jpgs?
.ai, .svg or .eps
Ok I thought at one time you said that pdfs are also editable in affinity but I can't get them to work. Thx
One thing you might mention sometime is about the difference between linked and embedded images. I learned a very hard lesson to use embedded! My files were linked and then some how- God only knows- the file got deleted from my Dropbox and therefore the whole book I had spent weeks modifying couldn't be exported- it said files missing. What's worse is that I couldn't remember where I bought the files from so I couldn't just re- download them. Weeks of work gone. SO-2 lessons- 1. embed the files, and 2. keep a spreadsheet of everything I buy and where I bought it from!!
Gracias Paul
You’re welcome.
Hello Paul,
I love your videos. Thank you for sharing your experiences, and making it more simple than it looks! I was wondering if the subscription option for Creative Fabrica should be only Graphics for KDP or the even fonts or the whole package?
Thanks,
Amy.
Creative Fabrica have a few different subscription packages. Depending on what you need. I use mine mainly for the graphics but I have the whole package in case I want fonts.
@@paulmarles Thank you 😊
Hi Paul, I uploaded the same notebook twice with same details by mistake..they're now in review..is there any danger That I will be suspended ?
thanks a lot for this amazing n very informative vid
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You’re welcome. Thank you for watching.
If I downloaded an image from free website and it had been used for the same purpose ( kdp coloring book) by some one. Now is it good to go?
You can use it if you have the license to use it.
I just wonder that if this is so simple and successful and thousands of viewers follow the instructions and publish their books, wouldn't that flood the market, increase the competition, and therefore reduce sales for individuals? My view is that if it looks too good to be true, it usually is. In all the comments to the different videos, I have not seen any reports of increased sales for those who have followed the techniques shown on the set of videos. Good advertisements for the commercial software for creating the books, and if the guy has an affiliate link to this commercial software and is making some money off it, then he can be compared to the owner of the general store in the goldfields, who made more money than most of the miners themselves!
Never said it was simple. But good luck with your quest to find something easy.
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Thank you my friend
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It obviously makes sense to leave blank pages when doing Scissor Skills books, but are you likely to run into problems with KDP because of leaving so many blank pages?
No, should be fine.
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Fabulous!
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Great thaks
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How fun!
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Thank Paul translation vedeo
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But I can draw My own image, I can take several examples of images and then Draw My own...so that I'm sure that it's free of copyright...
Great idea.
Cue the extra 100k kdp scissor skills books
This video is full of knowledge. I've been trying to research for a TH-cam vid like yours that breaks down the topics in this TH-cam video! 🥼Your video actually reminds me of the content of Doctor Ethan! Dr's demonstrations are totally insightful and I learned a lot for my finals! He is the most informative med student on TH-cam and he talks about health symptoms.
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But I think learning to use the tools you used itself needs time and education, for someone who is total beginner not easy,
This is an online business where you need to learn skills and create books.
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Too competitive niche