How to Create an Amazon KDP Coloring Book Interior FAST from Photographs and Images in Illustrator
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I show you how to take images and turn them into coloring book images which can be used to create your own low content books to sell on Amazon. The process is easy and quick to follow in Adobe Illustrator and will have you creating a coloring book in not time.
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About this video - This video shows you how to create the interiors of Amazon KDP coloring book,s using images you can find on line, with Adobe Illustrator.
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Stunning and precise explanations that rock! Again, the value you provide is unsurpassed in creating book interiors and income potential. Bravo.
Thank you. 👍
YOU are a legend!!! Thank you so much. I was pulling my hair out trying to get this. I did not think of using cutout.
Two days ago I knew nothing about KDP and now here I am on your page. Keep the videos coming. Us the newbies and I guess the not so new appreciate them so much!!
Thank you 🙏
published my first book on kdp a while ago now looking to sell some more and apparently blank journals is an easier way to go.
This is an amazing technique! I've been looking for this kind of tutorial. Thank you so much for creating this! ❤️ More power!
You’re welcome. Glad you found it useful.
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Thanks for these great videos, they are helping me so much!
Great video! I really liked that you showed so many examples to make sure that we fully understood the process!
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Thank you !!! I am a sculptor and I want to take photos of my sculpts and make a coloring book if possible -/ yay !
I can't wait to try this. Thanks so much for sharing your technique!
You're welcome.
Very well explained.
Thank you very much and all the best!
Thank you, you’re welcome 👍
Paul, exactly what I am looking for. Suggestion break up first image into one video, then children's photo and illustration conversion into second. But still all good, Thank you.
MY NEW FAVORITE VIDEO !! Thank you so much.
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Very very useful method , I was going crazy about how to obtain new vectors on specific themes, thanks Paul!!!
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wow! That was really good. Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
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That was amazingly clear and very helpful. Thank you
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Loved this tutorial, Paul! I will try it.
That’s great 👍
Oh my goodness finally! Thank you for sharing this!!
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Oh wow. I like original stuff so will be taking this on board. Thanks Paul.
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Thank you for sharing, Paul
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An amazing explanation that rock! thank you for sharing.
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amazing that what i search thanks M. PAUL it's very interesting video
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It is perfect 🤩, thank you very much
Very effective & helpful. Thanks paul..
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Extremely helpful video!! Wow!
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Great content, Thank you so much. Go for the Top, I'm with you. Good luck 👋
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Your videos are awesome! Thank you
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paul males is my best kip teachers nothing else .simple and straight forward ...and yes I subscribe for my kdp journey
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You have shared a valuable stuff.Thanks a lot.
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A great heart-touching, meaningful presentation . The message is full of wisdom.carry on. God bless you.
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thank youuu!! nearly done my colouring book with your videos! thank youuuu
That’s great. 👍👍👍 Well done.
You provide very good tutorials.. Thanks
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Thank you for the motivation. I haven't opened AI in a long while. This looks like a fun project that can produce a little $! 🤓
You are making my life so much better! Thank you!!!
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That's really good got a load of ideas of ideas off this Thank you, Paul 👍🙌
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Thank you so much for the great, thoughtful tutorials, they really help me as a novice. I'll tell you that some of your videos refuse to load for me, I just get the "spinning arrows"..... just mentioning in case you weren't aware. Thank you for the inspiration & encouragement. 🙏
Glad you found them useful.
Youre the King! , thanks for this!!
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Its amazing
thank you for sharing
Loved 😍💟
😮😮😮 Amazing!! Thanks for this trick!!!
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I love this video! It's an excellent tutorial.
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*Excellent tips!!!*
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Excellent video, Paul. Well explained and presented 👍
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Amazing , thanks
Thank you very much, you helped me a lot with your video. It was very useful. Keep it up, providing this valuable content. Take care of yourself.
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Thanks for this great tutorial. The video was a great, hands-on practical demonstration.
(And @Marjo - regarding what is cheap or of value - the book-buying market determines that, regardless of how many hours an artist put into a piece.)
Exactly. 👍
Thank you so much for great Video
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Thank you so much for sharing
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You are a great teacher
Thank you! 😃
Thank you very much
Sir It's really a helpful video. Thank you sir.
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Thanks for this valuable content! I've already subscribed and liked this one. I'm on my way to my first sale. Congrats on your channel!
That’s great 👍 Thank you for watching.
I have my 1st fiction story published and 9 journals and log books thanks to u. I just started with the journals this week. Thanks man. Cheers!
Congratulations. That’s great! Best of luck with sales.
@@paulmarles thank you. As we speak I have 11 books made now with new ones on the way this week. I am still waiting on reviews to be settled with so they can be on the market.
@@slasher0630 how's going ur sales ? Did u make any sale?
@@georytv5851 yeah. I changed course. I dont make journals anymore. I write fiction and im doing slightly better with it
Awesome sir🙏
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wow this was so cool! i loved this video!!
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You're awesome!!
I've been using photos from public domains. Kudos my friend.
thank you. Really you are a good men my respect
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Thank you very much ... from morroco 👍👍
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You are a genius Captain
Thank you. Appreciate your comments. 👍👍
Thank you so much! I can't wait to try this. I have had Adobe Creative/Photoshop added to my new laptop, but have not learned anything on it yet...so just some tips on the simplification of the process is help enough. It's a blessing for those of us stuck home a lot to be able to produce work from videos like this. Blessings!
Muchas gracias Paul por el contenido de valor que nos brindas, una pregunta no habría problema con derechos de autor por usar una imagen como elemento principal del libro? agradezco tu respuesta
a true master u are great video thanks
You’re welcome and thank you too.
Paul, I LOVE your tutorials! I may now need to invest in AI and it is something I should have done a long time ago. I am over the whole vector image thing, can't seem to make it work for me. I like this much better! Thank you. :-)
Think about something cheaper but just as good like Affinity Designer #IHaveNoSkinInThisGame
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🙏🏼thank you so much
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Ok this is pretty awesome, I'm following right along with Illustrator open on my PC, this is fun! :D
That's great to hear!
Amazing video
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Nice gift for my birthday! ;)
Grazie mille!
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Thanks Teacher!
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Great tips Paul and thanks. I'm using Inkscape for my vector drawing and most of my POD graphics, so I'll see if they have the same tools as AI for these tasks.
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Incredible, you are fantastic. In adition I improve my english with you. You have a perfect diction
Thank you! Glad you've found them helpful.
Awesome man, thanks for these tips! 14:00 (for tiny tot coloring book authors)
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Thank you! That really helped a lot. I gave you a bit thumbs up :-D
Great sir
I love you channels
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great thanks
Thanks for this Paul... Do you have a video of creating a colouring book with your own artwork? I have heaps of drawings that I have created on procreate that I want to compile into a colouring book. I have watched a few of your vids, but can't seem to find one that shows how to move content from one to another. Unless I have missed it completely x
wanna like this video a million times!!
Don’t let me stop you 😆 Thank you for watching.
@@paulmarles Thank you Paul 👌
Keep up the good work 🤘🏻
I appreciate your effort, however, I personally would never buy a coloring book at this quality.
Edit: I just watched a couple more vids this morning and they were excellent. After coming back to this video, I need to correct my statement above, because it wasn't 100% accurate. First off, you're showing us techniques, not selling us a book. Secondly, there are some great techniques, and a bad one or two, which led me to my initial statement... but, again, you're not trying to sell those to us as books. And lastly, I think I'll stick around because you have some great advice overall!
Thanks
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Thanks Paul this opens up lots of possibilities. The problem now is I have too much content to create for books and not enough time. Have you looked at getting a Virtual Assistant to help with creating interiors?
Not for books. Some time ago I had virtual assistants creating content for websites that I was building. Website I used was onlinejobs.ph Not sure if it is still around.
good one
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You’ve given me all the info I ever wanted and needed about coloring books! Thank you! Any chance we can get these instructions via Inkscape?! Maybe too much to ask! Lol You’re awesome!!! Thanks!
Thank you. 👍👍 I don’t use Inkscape at all but will try and look into it for the future.
check out logos by nick on youtube. He has some of the best inkscape tuts. to do what Paul has done today in inkscape you would use the PATH>TRACE BITMAP option. Play with the settings.
Loving your videos - just found them and been watching a bunch. Question - is the 'bleed measurement' correct for us to punch in for an 8.5 by 11 inch book? Asking b/c in the beginning you said an 8 by 11.5 inch book and wondering if that was just a verbal mistake - or maybe I'm missing something in the way the book is generated in KDP with the spine, etc. Thx.
It was a verbal mistake! 🤦♂️
Sounds like Michael Caine. Very informated and informative.
🤝👏 thank you
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Wow! This is fantastic! Thank you very much!
I know well Photoshop but unfortunately nothing at all of Illustrator! I think I must start learning Illustrator too!
I have a question: if our target image is a B&W image i.e. of an animal, can you set the Black and White as Mode in the Image Trace window?
You convert it to Black and white.
Thank you very much for this video!!
For my reference
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Capt Paul. Great video as always and you are right about doing your owe due diligence images you use BUT this is a bigger subject and may I suggest a video in it's own right.
Each of our projects have a number of elements; the research; the book creation; the after publication in basic terms.
How do you manage all this information, do you have a method of storing all this stuff maybe a nested project folder structure. But returning to the beginning of this message if sometime later someone challenges your use of an image or suggests a breach of IP or TM, how to prove you did the due diligence?
I personally have a folder in my nested project folder structure to store this sort of information - screenshots of the license for each image with a linked thumbnail
Any thoughts ?
I’ll put it on my list.
This looks great- But, like you, I have moved to Affinity designer/photo. Could you do a tutorial on that software? Thank you! :)
Amazing video Paul. I'd like to ask how to thin or thicken the lines. I've seen you have chosen "2 point" on the right was that the line thickness?
It's the stroke setting.
Thank you, Paul, for this video. I have been having a hard time finding images for coloring books. Does this method work with Affinity Designer? I see it doesn't have Image Trace but I watched your other video with the workaround. Thanks again. Ok I tried to do this with Affinity Designer and Inkscape but am very frustrated. Could you make a video of how this is done. I have so many photos that would make lovely coloring pages. Thanks in advance. I love watching your videos!!
I use Affinity Designer all the time. You’re correct, it doesn’t have image trace but there are 3rd party tools like vectornator.
Hi Paul Thank you for this video I really enjoyed it. I just want to ask you something, I got lost where you copied the lion to past to a background, is there a step I missed? My outlined lion does not have the inch border on the page and I am not sure how to copy and paste, I do not get that option.
Not sure what you mean. You press cmd c or ctrl c to copy and cmd v or ctrl v to paste.
How’s the paper quality for coloring books on KDP? Do you upload a pdf just as a paperback format and select black and white?
Quality is pretty good. And yes, just upload a pdf.
Is this possible in other vector graphics editing programs ? For example in Corell Draw?
I don’t know I’m afraid. It should be although I had difficulty doing it in Gravit Designer.
Thank u Sir, u r excellent, i used 2 feel design by computer so complicated, but u make it easy. Sir, If am interested in jewelery design is it better 2 use adobe or graphic design or photoshop !, and which version !!
Adobe illustrator or affinity designer.
Great tips Paul and thanks! Please I have a question: If we changed the image from its color to black and white, It still copirghted?
No, not unless you created the original colored image.
Hi Paul, thanks for all your hard work. Do you know if there is a tool in Inkscape that gets the job done like the "Effect ->Artistic -> Cutout" that you talk about ? Thanks so much.
I'm not sure. It's not a piece of software I use. It does most of the functions that Illustrator does. The bestthing to do id Google or search on TH-cam. Lots of great tutorials out there.
@@paulmarles i wasn’t expecting an answer so thanks a lot ! I’ll keep playing around, found something but doesn’t make the picture look like a coloring book image. Did you see the video about the guy from Russia who redraws the Shrek image ? It’s also a great way to get a neat job done 😄
Hi Paul!
You always say that we need to check licence agreements. But could you give advice on which way we can do it? Only under the picture, we found or maybe you know some websites when we could to check our images?
P.S. Sorry for my bad English)
All sites supplying images have a link called licensing which will take you to their page where they explain their licensing agreement. It is usually at the bottom of the home page.