Because of YOU I was able to get into creating children's books and coloring books using CANVA, Midjourney, GigaPixel AI, and Chat GPT. YOU ARE THE MAN! Thank you so much!!
I made my first 4 sales on a Cat wordsearch book that I made off of one of your other videos. Thank you for the info. I ended up making good use of Canva and Bookbolt and I went over the top cute with puns and I made the cover image cat wearing glasses 💖 I called it a feline word search adventure. I was too proud of myself when I got those first few sales 😆 No sales on the coloring books yet but I’m super happy with the Kawaii Lovecraft Monsters one I made. I’m probably going to scrap the first coloring book that I don’t like as much as that one, then redo and republish with a slightly different name though. 🍀
awesome video! For midjourney when doing a negative prompt its --no(dash dash no) and then whatever you want midjourny to exclude. so for your example it would be --no shading , I also found putting black and white at the beginning helped. So something like this "black and white coloring page for kids, cute Halloween scene, cartoon style, thick lines, low detail --no shading --ar 85:110"
In one of your other videos in making coloring books you use 9:11 ratio is that no longer valid? This 85:110 Midjourney will not allow me to do. Thank you, Shelly
Can you please tell me why I type the same exact words and Midjourney brings all pictures back in full color ???? I for the life of me can't figure this out. Please help!
@@paulmarles my friend paul i just started kdp business it has been 2 months I haven't made any sales I have published books in different niches, do you think I'm wrong?
Hi Paul, On 21st July, I watched this video over and over again. And 10 days later, today, my 1st coloring book is published. Working on my 2nd book now Thank you so much, Paul...you are absolutely awesome...keep making these videos
Thanks for making these videos, I've recently published my first coloring book via KDP titled "A Christmas Escape" and it was so much fun. Lots of family and friends interested in AI art, so these are making great stocking stuffers. Looking forward to publishing more types of books. You've made it very easy to follow along with you. Please keep up everything you're doing!
Even though I watch your entire video's, I really appreciate that you put time stamps in ur description. I really helps when I come back to re-visit the video for info!!!
Wow thanks. That cover and coloring pages look great. I did find out recently too that coloring pages can be edited in Canva to adjust for things like too much grayscale in the image. You go into edit photo, adjust and adjust the contrast and brightness. I did test it out and it does work and makes a huge difference. You can do the same in Book Bolt I do believe. Thanks for the video I have been having a hard time with prompts for coloring pages and book covers so this helps.
Thanks again, I just submitted my first coloring book today! I will let you know if it get accepted for publication on Amazon and how it goes after that! You are a very generous person to share your knowledge! Many blessings to you and your loved ones!
Just found your content, love it and am hooked on your no nonsense approach to giving sound advice. Could you give a review of the Leonardo AI software for creating images please.
Just tried to make a Halloween cover in Midjourney but all of them were full of five legged cats, cats with batwing ears, cats with fishtails, pumpkins with windows, moons with pumpkins stalks etc. Not one was usable. Back to the drawing board...
Do you buy your own barcodes or use the free Amazon ones? As I always wondered how people did financially with using the Amazon barcodes when they had a pretty successful book. Great tutorial by the way.
Hi Paul! Really appreciate your KDP videos as I’ve been watching them for a while now. After see this, I thought I’d give it a try and do a coloring book. One question I have though is do customers expect a coloring page in the book of the exact cover art?
It doesn’t have to be exactly the same. The easiest way is to grab similar pictures from mid journey that have the same prompt apart from the black and white/colour parts. Otherwise, you either convert a colour one to b&w for the interior, or edit a black and white one to colour it. I was doing the latter recently before I realised I didn’t need to do all that work.
Hi Paul. I am following you from Denmark and learning so much! Thank you for a very informative video as always - I have just one question: Do you need to vectorize the black and white coloring pages for the interior? Thanks in advance. Kind regards.
I watched this video 4 months ago (and all the others before this one), I followed the whole setup, created 12 coloring books, did not do any advertisement/marketing, I apparently sold 5 books as of right now (28 November 2023). I have no doubt that there is space for improvement somewhere, although I'm not sure if it will be something capable of "passive income" or even pay some bills. I think I'll have to learn more and dedicate a bit more of my time to understand the Amazon KDP ecosystem so that I can understand why it's not working for me. I'm sure others may have different outcomes.
Thanks "Captain" Great Video as always! Question please: Do you have any "magic prompts" to keep the same style and consistency throughout all images once you have found one that you like?
Thanks to you, I published one last week and I’m working on an Halloween and Christmas now. My only thing is, do you find your doing good on selling your coloring books? I know it can take awhile so I can’t wait to get my first sale. 😊
Hi, thank you for such detailed videos. I just want to ask do you ever use bookbolt to create your books instead of Canva? Do you think Canva is easier?
Hi Paul, great tutorial, as always👍🏻. However, I don't understand why you don't go to upscale the images of the interior... at 15:17 in fact you say that the images upscaled by MJ are 72 dpi and therefore don't need to be scaled. Why? How is it different from the cover, which was always 72 dpi?🤔 Thank you!
Great tutorial, thank you Paul! Question, do you know how to position specific elements, for e.g. the house in the bottom third of the illustration, to leave space for the text?
Lower the transparency of your background image and you will see the KDP template underneath. So you can now position your text within the pink borders of the template.
@@paulmarles Thanks again Paul. I was feeling stuck, trying to do the "perfect" book when your new tutorial popped up. Something simple (in the best way possible) and fun.
Thank you for the beautiful video. I enjoyed it and benefited from it. Please, I would like to ask you: Is it better to use different fonts in the title, meaning writing Halloween in one font and a children's coloring book in another font, or to use one font in the title as you did, and thank you.
Do you need to make a note that there is blank pages within your coloring books so ppl purchasing them know? (All coloring books I get for our kids, if they say 80pages+, there are designs side by side and front to back. I personally wouldn’t be happy purchasing an 80 page coloring books and not knowing that majority of it is blank pages.)
Your videos are great Paul. I think I'm going to go back and watch your old ones. I have become quite dissolution with AI. Not just my own results but the whole mess. I downloaded more than 10 packets of coloring book pages. Each one included over 100 pictures. As I went through the pictures I realized that each packet was very similar. Then as I looked closer, I could see the bizarre imperfections. Especially with the "cute animals". Several had an extra limb. Do these people not check the pictures? I can only imagine a kid coloring those. Then the Halloween packets are even more bizarre. Many just made my head hurt looking at them. Always check the hands. Not to mention bits and pieces floating around that are not quite birds or leaves on the plants with eyes.... A lot of pictures just would never make sense when you are trying to color them. Places where the picture kind of melts.... They just do not work. The video you did on the vintage car on a bridge... They look good at 10,000 feet but on closer inspection things just aren't right. Sorry for the rant but after several months of mucking about with AI I think I've had it. I did sell a couple of journals and will continue to use AI to generate ideas and even some verbiage, but I'm really going to scrutinize anything that I use in a coloring book. Sorry about the rant but I really got frustrated inspecting more than 1000 coloring book pictures today.... And keep up the good work.
Hello Paul, another awesome video. I have a question. I am trying to create a graffiti-style coloring book. I have yet to be able to come up with the correct verbiage to make any AI art generator design a graffiti-style image. You know, the graffiti that is usually seen on old buildings that have been spray painted on. I am trying to design actual pieces of art that appear as if it is an actual art piece that is painted onto the side of a building or sidewalk or warehouse door etc. It doesn't seem as if AI art generators recognize graffiti artists. I can manually manipulate words and letters to give it that graffiti vibe, but I am trying to create that real street graffiti art style that is often depicted on train cars or the graffiti art that has been showcased on brick walls for display. Oh well, I guess I am just reaching. Oh yeah, I am a subscriber on my other channel. I started my KDP Publishing business from your videos. I have now published 50 books. Thank you so much. I genuinely appreciate you!!!😊👍
Congratulations on publishing those books. That's great to hear. Are you trying to create graffiti style text? I know a lot of AI generators don't seem to be too good at creating text at the moment.
KDP keeps telling me that my image has objects beyond the image's safety margin, but those are items that aren't important and could be clipped. Another problem is the email that KDP sends me asking me to add the bleed, but when I do that, I get another error saying that I sent a larger file than I chose when I created the book. "Add 0.125" (3.2 mm) to your book's page width and 0.25" (6.4 mm) to the page height to ensure that the images in your manuscript extend beyond the edge of the page. Once you have added the size, extend any images or backgrounds that you want to reach all the way to the edge of the page 0.125” (3.2 mm) beyond the trim line. This prevents manufacturing issues when the file is trimmed to size" I don't know where I'm going wrong
Hey Paul, thank for sharing! BTW: when pricing, why is this message "Not offered in this marketplace" appearing. Does that mean that the book won't be available in those marketplaces?
Amazing tips. Ive been following along. Thanks. However. I just realize. KDP cannot proceed in my Country Indonesia. At the last step when publishing. It required me to enter banking detail, which are not available. No country to choose. 😅
Hi Paul. Let me start saying thank you very much for creating these videos. I'm a beginner and I followed along on an older video you released titled create a journal to sell on Amazon kdp for free and I'm happy to say because of you I was able to accomplish successfully submitting my first 6x9 journal on kdp. I have a question for you. Can I reuse the same template that I downloaded over again or do I have to download a new one for each journal? Also same question for the pages. One part confused me though and I have refrained from making another one because in the video you larger number in the width box and the smaller number in the height box in canva. Should they be reversed?
Question: if you make a coloring book with 40 pages or so for coloring, but include a page that teaches marker rendering techniques, a page that teaches layered pencil coloring, color theory, highlights, shadows, how to control the viewer's eye path around the page, and how to elicit a specific emotion, does it still fit in the KDP catigory?
It would still be a book you publish via KDP. If you mean is it clasified as low content then as it's a coloring book, no, it wouldn't fall under the low content category.
Hmm, very interesting, so publishing on amazon is actually free? They only get the cut when order has been made? How are you receiving the money if order been made? Do you have to provide your credit card information or paypay?
It keeps the file size smaller. You can often get away without doing it but if you have too many layers then there can be issues with file size and uploading it to KDP.
Hello! paul, i’m a big fan in south korea. i’d like to ask you something about keyword research. As a result of my search, there is big difference when the category ALL and BOOK( Book more ~2000) Which category should i refer to? 😅😅
paul, hi your videos are. great and i got into the course with kathryne on your link. i create all my images in midjourney and use --ar 85:110 for them and when i uoload them to crystal theyre 1024 x 1024. whatam i doing wrong? its so frustrating and is taking weeks. thx
i got an answer from Isaac and he looked at my screenshot and saw i had a space in between --- and ar. i created alot of images and it was a learning experience for sure. it defaults to square. thanks@@paulmarles
hi, everything is very nice, but I think you can make a video on how to fix the unapproved page margin etc. For example, I took the same steps just like you, but then kdp said in the mail and I don't know how to fix this coloring book: Attention needed: Please review your title, Hi! We checked your files and found issues you need to fix before your book can be published on KDP: Interior Add 0.125" (3.2 mm) to your book's page width and 0.25" (6.4 mm) to the page height to ensure that the images in your manuscript extend beyond the edge of the page. Once you have added the size, extend any images or backgrounds that you want to reach all the way to the edge of the page 0.125” (3.2 mm) beyond the trim line. This prevents manufacturing issues when the file is trimmed to size. See examples PDF page(s) 63. Watch our video, which explains trim size, margins, and bleed. Where possible, we give pages numbers with examples. To make sure your entire book meets our guidelines, please review your entire manuscript file and fix all issues. To update book details, go to your KDP Bookshelf. If you update your manuscript or cover, you'll have to upload the revised file to KDP. We'll review your book again to ensure it meets our requirements. Learn more: -- Update book details -- Upload a revised manuscript -- Update a revised cover -- Paperback Formatting Help The Kindle Direct Publishing team
Hi Paul! I Have a question, please. When you upload the coloring page to canva you don't use the KDP Interior Margin Template, and you fill all the page. When I try to do the same thing with my bleed coloring book and upload it on KDP I get the email rejection from Amazon. So I'm confused about when to use your KDP Interior template and when not?
I like the part where people overlooked the fact that using ai image creator software including bing ai image generator, you can't actually use these images to sell in your creations...
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The patience of this man! Bless ya Paul for being so methodical and thorough
Because of YOU I was able to get into creating children's books and coloring books using CANVA, Midjourney, GigaPixel AI, and Chat GPT. YOU ARE THE MAN! Thank you so much!!
I made my first 4 sales on a Cat wordsearch book that I made off of one of your other videos. Thank you for the info. I ended up making good use of Canva and Bookbolt and I went over the top cute with puns and I made the cover image cat wearing glasses 💖 I called it a feline word search adventure. I was too proud of myself when I got those first few sales 😆 No sales on the coloring books yet but I’m super happy with the Kawaii Lovecraft Monsters one I made. I’m probably going to scrap the first coloring book that I don’t like as much as that one, then redo and republish with a slightly different name though. 🍀
awesome video! For midjourney when doing a negative prompt its --no(dash dash no) and then whatever you want midjourny to exclude. so for your example it would be --no shading , I also found putting black and white at the beginning helped. So something like this "black and white coloring page for kids, cute Halloween scene, cartoon style, thick lines, low detail --no shading --ar 85:110"
I tried this 5 times every time it states Invalid parameter
Invalid aspect ratio: 85:110"
In one of your other videos in making coloring books you use 9:11 ratio is that no longer valid? This 85:110 Midjourney will not allow me to do. Thank you, Shelly
Can you please tell me why I type the same exact words and Midjourney brings all pictures back in full color ???? I for the life of me can't figure this out. Please help!
Maybe 850:1100 ;)
With your video I actually published my first coloring book yesterday and was already planning on starting my Halloween one today! Perfect timing!
Congratulations! That's great to hear. Best of luck with your Halloween book.
@@paulmarles my friend paul i just started kdp business it has been 2 months I haven't made any sales I have published books in different niches, do you think I'm wrong?
@@korayyilmaz2126post the link
Я думаю Вы лучший специалист по KDP на всем TH-cam. Объясняете все подробно и понятно, спасибо за полезное видео!
Hi Paul,
On 21st July, I watched this video over and over again.
And 10 days later, today, my 1st coloring book is published.
Working on my 2nd book now
Thank you so much, Paul...you are absolutely awesome...keep making these videos
Any book sold out! ??
no, not yet 😅
@@healthbox7537
Nope....nothing sold out as no sales yet so far 😅@@healthbox7537
Thanks for making these videos, I've recently published my first coloring book via KDP titled "A Christmas Escape" and it was so much fun. Lots of family and friends interested in AI art, so these are making great stocking stuffers.
Looking forward to publishing more types of books.
You've made it very easy to follow along with you. Please keep up everything you're doing!
Even though I watch your entire video's, I really appreciate that you put time stamps in ur description. I really helps when I come back to re-visit the video for info!!!
Thank you. Glad you found it helpful.
Sir- You are an excellent teacher. It is so easy for me to understand you and not miss an important step in creating books. Thank You.
You're welcome. Thank you too for watching.
Enjoy and appreciate the easy to understand steps to creating kdp books. Off to create my first book!
I was having trouble publishing a paperback book on kdp and this video saved me! Thanks. Incredible work, really!
You're welcome. Glad you found it helpful.
i published my first coloring book yesterday using your help and today i did a halloween themed one. thank you for help!
Congratulations! That's great to hear. 👍
Wow thanks. That cover and coloring pages look great. I did find out recently too that coloring pages can be edited in Canva to adjust for things like too much grayscale in the image. You go into edit photo, adjust and adjust the contrast and brightness. I did test it out and it does work and makes a huge difference. You can do the same in Book Bolt I do believe. Thanks for the video I have been having a hard time with prompts for coloring pages and book covers so this helps.
This was so fun. I did the process. It's funny how the images I prompted were completely different and cool. Love Midjourney!
Fantastic video. Im a youtube junkie and this is the most clear tutorial i have ever seen on any subject.
Thank you. That's much appreciated. Glad you found it helpful.
please make a video explaining how to place the book in other categories that are not on the list
Grettings from Poland. Paul the best.
Welcome from Poland. Thank you for watching the videos. 👍
You are not the online one from Poland watching these great video. Tkanki you Paul for all these informations. They are very useful.
You are not the online one from Poland watching these great video. Tkanki you Paul for all these informations. They are very useful.
Can I just say that you're an absolute legend? Thanks.
You're welcome. Thank you too for watching. 👍
Best video I have found on this subject, thank you! I'm bookmarking it for when I get into midjourney.
When making the back cover, I thought I saw in another video not to cover the bar code, but here you clearly do. Please explain/clarify that.
KPD you do not need to but a barcode, KDP will do it.
Excellent instructions. Clear, precise, unmissible!
Thank you.
Hello paul i started to publish the book by following your guidelines. Very clear explanation was given by you thank you.
You're welcome. Glad you found it helpful.
Thanks again, I just submitted my first coloring book today! I will let you know if it get accepted for publication on Amazon and how it goes after that! You are a very generous person to share your knowledge! Many blessings to you and your loved ones!
youre awesome. thank you for giving us the information without holding back any essential info. have a great day
You're welcome. Thank you for watching. 👍
Zajebiście. Great job. Respect for people like you sharing with experience. 👍
just made my first book.. followed your video step by step.. Thank you for this video!
Just found your content, love it and am hooked on your no nonsense approach to giving sound advice. Could you give a review of the Leonardo AI software for creating images please.
I will certainly be looking into it.
Thank you Paul for a your great step by step video. I have just completed my first Dinosaur Coloring Book and waiting approval.
Does it got approved ?
@@Ayman-sk4zd No it did not get approved! I'm surprised by this!
@@Ayman-sk4zd Correction. My Merch on Demand was not approved but yes, my Dinosaur Coloring Book was approved.
Just tried to make a Halloween cover in Midjourney but all of them were full of five legged cats, cats with batwing ears, cats with fishtails, pumpkins with windows, moons with pumpkins stalks etc. Not one was usable. Back to the drawing board...
I think all of those are very on brand for Halloween actually
Use v5
@@uiuiuiuiuo that was using v5
@@acf9406obviously, exact same prompts won't generate the same result. It's common sense
@@VirusTechKEKW nothing common about this method
Paul, Thank you for all your videos. I have learned a lot from you. Please keep going.
You're welcome. Thank you for watching.
THANK YOU, I'M FROM BRAZIL AND THIS CONTENT IS HELPING ME HERE
Hi Paul, again a crazy video !
for the margins it's really prettier than with a frame. I forgot to add 0.25
Merci beaucoup ;)
Glad you liked it!
Thank you Paul. Think I am going to give it a go nothing to lose.
Hello
You're welcome. Go for it!
Do you buy your own barcodes or use the free Amazon ones? As I always wondered how people did financially with using the Amazon barcodes when they had a pretty successful book. Great tutorial by the way.
Thank you for sharing! Very helpful!
You're welcome. Thank you for watching.
I am sure you were the one using midjourney the other day while I was making my Halloween prompts and you decided to come up with this video.
😆
Hey Paul
Can you give a review on publisher rocket? thanks for these videos, much appreciated
Hi Paul! Really appreciate your KDP videos as I’ve been watching them for a while now. After see this, I thought I’d give it a try and do a coloring book. One question I have though is do customers expect a coloring page in the book of the exact cover art?
Seems like it'll be safer to keep art similar in style in case the buyers aren't happy & you get negative ratings.
It doesn’t have to be exactly the same. The easiest way is to grab similar pictures from mid journey that have the same prompt apart from the black and white/colour parts.
Otherwise, you either convert a colour one to b&w for the interior, or edit a black and white one to colour it. I was doing the latter recently before I realised I didn’t need to do all that work.
How many pages has to have the coloring book? Amazing video
It's simply woooooooooow. U r amazing sir. Love from India.🙏👍
You are the best. Thanks for your time and didactic!
Thanks for that tutorial. Very informative, like your videos. Cheers!
You're welcome. Thank you too for watching.
Thanks a lot Paul!
You're welcome.
Hi Paul. I am following you from Denmark and learning so much! Thank you for a very informative video as always - I have just one question: Do you need to vectorize the black and white coloring pages for the interior? Thanks in advance. Kind regards.
No, I've not found that to be an issue.
Wow i like this i hv been using the vectorizer to vectorize images but i am not making sales
I watched this video 4 months ago (and all the others before this one), I followed the whole setup, created 12 coloring books, did not do any advertisement/marketing, I apparently sold 5 books as of right now (28 November 2023). I have no doubt that there is space for improvement somewhere, although I'm not sure if it will be something capable of "passive income" or even pay some bills. I think I'll have to learn more and dedicate a bit more of my time to understand the Amazon KDP ecosystem so that I can understand why it's not working for me.
I'm sure others may have different outcomes.
Thank you for your valuable tutorial
Excellent!! Love your tutorials!!
Thanks "Captain" Great Video as always! Question please: Do you have any "magic prompts" to keep the same style and consistency throughout all images once you have found one that you like?
No, I don't. But there are ways to keep consistent elements. My advice would be to search on TH-cam for videos that will show you how.
Great video Paul. Why do you choose an aspect ratio of 85:110?
Thanks for helpful video!!
I have a Question, How to set up a discount for my KDP. Thank you
Not sure what you're refering to. There is no selection for a discount.
Thanks to you, I published one last week and I’m working on an Halloween and Christmas now. My only thing is, do you find your doing good on selling your coloring books? I know it can take awhile so I can’t wait to get my first sale. 😊
Yes, I'm having more sales since using Ai images.
@@paulmarles Ok thank you!
Hi, thank you for such detailed videos. I just want to ask do you ever use bookbolt to create your books instead of Canva? Do you think Canva is easier?
This is FANTASTIC! Thank you!!!
You're welcome. Thank you for watching.
Paul, thank you so much 🤝 Really helpful 👍
You're welcome. Thank. you forwatching.
Hi Paul, can i use this guide for any coloring book niche,
Hi Paul, great tutorial, as always👍🏻.
However, I don't understand why you don't go to upscale the images of the interior... at 15:17 in fact you say that the images upscaled by MJ are 72 dpi and therefore don't need to be scaled. Why? How is it different from the cover, which was always 72 dpi?🤔
Thank you!
it is not as critical for black and white lined images like these. But you can upscale them if you like.
@@paulmarles Thanks for reply Paul😉
Hello Paul. I am so thankful for all your videos. I created my first notebook. Please is there any other AI that generates images free?
Good Job
Please I need the link of AI where can I download it from
Download what from? The website I used to create the images is midjourney.com
Great tutorial, thank you Paul! Question, do you know how to position specific elements, for e.g. the house in the bottom third of the illustration, to leave space for the text?
Lower the transparency of your background image and you will see the KDP template underneath. So you can now position your text within the pink borders of the template.
@@paulmarles Thanks again Paul. I was feeling stuck, trying to do the "perfect" book when your new tutorial popped up. Something simple (in the best way possible) and fun.
Thank you for the beautiful video. I enjoyed it and benefited from it. Please, I would like to ask you: Is it better to use different fonts in the title, meaning writing Halloween in one font and a children's coloring book in another font, or to use one font in the title as you did, and thank you.
You can do either. If you are using two fonts then I would advise learning about pairing fonts as most people use the wrong fonts together.
@@paulmarles thank you for your advice
Thank you Paul
You're welcome. 👍
Hi Paul, great video! I just wanted to ask, is it better to do no bleed and put interior image in the frame, left some space on edges?
hello, I would like to know if it would be interesting to pay ad
Muchas gracias, muy buen tutorial y está con traducción.
Do you need to make a note that there is blank pages within your coloring books so ppl purchasing them know?
(All coloring books I get for our kids, if they say 80pages+, there are designs side by side and front to back. I personally wouldn’t be happy purchasing an 80 page coloring books and not knowing that majority of it is blank pages.)
I wouldn't say there is a need but there is no harm if you want to. It's easy enough to write it in the description.
❤🎉You are too good Sir. Thanks
You're welcome. Thank you for watching.
Is it good idea to buy midjourney for higher subscription so that all work would be secret? So pictures would not show up! Or no point of doing that?
No, I don't think it's worth doing that.
Thank you Can use designer to make it grow and to creat book
Yes, I'm professional book cover designer
Thanks for your great content
You're welcome. 👍
Do you ever used shref code? For coloring book. Just wondering
17:11 would not be better upscale each coloring page to prevent pixelated images once the book got printed?
Yes, that is good practice.
Hello sir, can you tell me how to add more photos like mockup in our kdp listing?
Your videos are great Paul. I think I'm going to go back and watch your old ones. I have become quite dissolution with AI. Not just my own results but the whole mess. I downloaded more than 10 packets of coloring book pages. Each one included over 100 pictures. As I went through the pictures I realized that each packet was very similar. Then as I looked closer, I could see the bizarre imperfections. Especially with the "cute animals". Several had an extra limb. Do these people not check the pictures? I can only imagine a kid coloring those. Then the Halloween packets are even more bizarre. Many just made my head hurt looking at them. Always check the hands. Not to mention bits and pieces floating around that are not quite birds or leaves on the plants with eyes.... A lot of pictures just would never make sense when you are trying to color them. Places where the picture kind of melts.... They just do not work.
The video you did on the vintage car on a bridge... They look good at 10,000 feet but on closer inspection things just aren't right. Sorry for the rant but after several months of mucking about with AI I think I've had it. I did sell a couple of journals and will continue to use AI to generate ideas and even some verbiage, but I'm really going to scrutinize anything that I use in a coloring book.
Sorry about the rant but I really got frustrated inspecting more than 1000 coloring book pictures today.... And keep up the good work.
Hello Paul, another awesome video. I have a question. I am trying to create a graffiti-style coloring book. I have yet to be able to come up with the correct verbiage to make any AI art generator design a graffiti-style image. You know, the graffiti that is usually seen on old buildings that have been spray painted on. I am trying to design actual pieces of art that appear as if it is an actual art piece that is painted onto the side of a building or sidewalk or warehouse door etc. It doesn't seem as if AI art generators recognize graffiti artists. I can manually manipulate words and letters to give it that graffiti vibe, but I am trying to create that real street graffiti art style that is often depicted on train cars or the graffiti art that has been showcased on brick walls for display. Oh well, I guess I am just reaching. Oh yeah, I am a subscriber on my other channel. I started my KDP Publishing business from your videos. I have now published 50 books. Thank you so much. I genuinely appreciate you!!!😊👍
Congratulations on publishing those books. That's great to hear. Are you trying to create graffiti style text? I know a lot of AI generators don't seem to be too good at creating text at the moment.
KDP keeps telling me that my image has objects beyond the image's safety margin, but those are items that aren't important and could be clipped.
Another problem is the email that KDP sends me asking me to add the bleed, but when I do that, I get another error saying that I sent a larger file than I chose when I created the book.
"Add 0.125" (3.2 mm) to your book's page width and 0.25" (6.4 mm) to the page height to ensure that the images in your manuscript extend beyond the edge of the page. Once you have added the size, extend any images or backgrounds that you want to reach all the way to the edge of the page 0.125” (3.2 mm) beyond the trim line. This prevents manufacturing issues when the file is trimmed to size"
I don't know where I'm going wrong
Any images that are outside the margin that you don;t mind getting clipped need to go beyond the edges of the page.
Hey Paul, thank for sharing! BTW: when pricing, why is this message "Not offered in this marketplace" appearing. Does that mean that the book won't be available in those marketplaces?
Yes, that would normally be the case.
@@paulmarles Thanks. And is there a way to activate (so to speak) a Marketplace? Ik would be interested in Canada.
Amazing tips. Ive been following along. Thanks.
However. I just realize. KDP cannot proceed in my Country Indonesia.
At the last step when publishing.
It required me to enter banking detail, which are not available. No country to choose. 😅
ever considered using book bolt instead of canva?
I do use it but not for putting together a cover and interior like this.
Hi Paul. Let me start saying thank you very much for creating these videos. I'm a beginner and I followed along on an older video you released titled create a journal to sell on Amazon kdp for free and I'm happy to say because of you I was able to accomplish successfully submitting my first 6x9 journal on kdp. I have a question for you. Can I reuse the same template that I downloaded over again or do I have to download a new one for each journal? Also same question for the pages. One part confused me though and I have refrained from making another one because in the video you larger number in the width box and the smaller number in the height box in canva. Should they be reversed?
Yes, you can reuse the template. In fact, you car reuse the Canva files - just save as a different file name and change up the content.
The cover is more wide than tall as it’s one page which wraps around the front, spine and back.
do we say yes or no, when kdp asks if the content is AI generated or not?
How to calculate total all pages? inclde with the blank page or just only coloring page??
Hi , Is there any reason you don’t do a introduction page at the Beginning of any of your books ?
Question: if you make a coloring book with 40 pages or so for coloring, but include a page that teaches marker rendering techniques, a page that teaches layered pencil coloring, color theory, highlights, shadows, how to control the viewer's eye path around the page, and how to elicit a specific emotion, does it still fit in the KDP catigory?
It would still be a book you publish via KDP. If you mean is it clasified as low content then as it's a coloring book, no, it wouldn't fall under the low content category.
Hmm, very interesting, so publishing on amazon is actually free? They only get the cut when order has been made? How are you receiving the money if order been made? Do you have to provide your credit card information or paypay?
Why do you click on the "Flatten PDF" before you download?
It keeps the file size smaller. You can often get away without doing it but if you have too many layers then there can be issues with file size and uploading it to KDP.
Thank you @paulmarles - as always great info!
You're welcome.
Hello! paul, i’m a big fan in south korea. i’d like to ask you something about keyword research.
As a result of my search, there is big difference when the category ALL and BOOK( Book more ~2000)
Which category should i refer to? 😅😅
Nice
paul, hi your videos are. great and i got into the course with kathryne on your link. i create all my images in midjourney and use --ar 85:110 for them and when i uoload them to crystal theyre 1024 x 1024. whatam i doing wrong? its so frustrating and is taking weeks. thx
I don't know. If you're using --ar 85:110 it should create them in the correct ratio. Do they look square in MidJourney?
i got an answer from Isaac and he looked at my screenshot and saw i had a space in between --- and ar. i created alot of images and it was a learning experience for sure. it defaults to square. thanks@@paulmarles
Hi Mr Paul how can I pay for your course training?
hi, everything is very nice, but I think you can make a video on how to fix the unapproved page margin etc. For example, I took the same steps just like you, but then kdp said in the mail and I don't know how to fix this coloring book: Attention needed: Please review your title,
Hi!
We checked your files and found issues you need to fix before your book can be published on KDP:
Interior
Add 0.125" (3.2 mm) to your book's page width and 0.25" (6.4 mm) to the page height to ensure that the images in your manuscript extend beyond the edge of the page. Once you have added the size, extend any images or backgrounds that you want to reach all the way to the edge of the page 0.125” (3.2 mm) beyond the trim line. This prevents manufacturing issues when the file is trimmed to size. See examples PDF page(s) 63. Watch our video, which explains trim size, margins, and bleed.
Where possible, we give pages numbers with examples. To make sure your entire book meets our guidelines, please review your entire manuscript file and fix all issues.
To update book details, go to your KDP Bookshelf. If you update your manuscript or cover, you'll have to upload the revised file to KDP. We'll review your book again to ensure it meets our requirements.
Learn more:
-- Update book details
-- Upload a revised manuscript
-- Update a revised cover
-- Paperback Formatting Help
The Kindle Direct Publishing team
Here is a video on bleed and margins: th-cam.com/video/bl7fsrHKaGs/w-d-xo.html
Hi Paul! I Have a question, please. When you upload the coloring page to canva you don't use the KDP Interior Margin Template, and you fill all the page. When I try to do the same thing with my bleed coloring book and upload it on KDP I get the email rejection from Amazon. So I'm confused about when to use your KDP Interior template and when not?
GUYS Is it safe to use Ai pics on amazon kdp ?
Question: so if I buy the basic plan for midjourney does that include a commercial license?
Hello Paul in this video I could not be able to follow u bcox screen was not shown up clearly why😢
Great Video thanks! Does anyone know if its possible to generate the pages randomly? for example 40 different images without 40 prompts?
Thanks for having knowledge 💯
I'm from Pakistan 💙
I like the part where people overlooked the fact that using ai image creator software including bing ai image generator, you can't actually use these images to sell in your creations...