The quickest way to make a coloring book EVER - a how-to guide using AI
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 มิ.ย. 2024
- Today we look how to use AI to create coloring books, including a step-by-step guide.
AI is taking over the creative industry. There's a lot of talk about whether it's a good thing, or indeed, a bad thing. The one thing that's for certain though, is it offers a lot of opportunities for savvy creators to create content. Many are using ChatGPT for short stories, plots, inspiration and ideas, and people are using text-to-image AI tools like Midjourney to create imagery.
In this video we look specifically at the benefits of using AI to create coloring books.
The tools I use in this video:
ChatGPT - chat.openai.com/chat
MidJourney - www.midjourney.com/app/
Creative Fabrica - www.creativefabrica.com/refer...
If you'd like to learn Midjourney for yourself, check out my 2024 Midjourney prompt guide here: www.amazon.com/dp/B0CLL1KSW8
You just made me realize that AI doesn’t necessarily make me less creative, it actually makes me more creative because it allows me to explore, play and push boundaries. Thank you, now I’m going to go to town with midjourney!
100%. For example if you design a character, you could upload it to midjourney as a base and then ask it to combine into different styles, different backgrounds, etc. Unlike other channels, I'm more of a lean in to AI rather than use AI to create absolutely everything!
Creative Fabrica Spark is worth checking out. Can be used free, yho there are reasons to pay the $9/month.
If you liked this video, you might enjoy my playlist 'Book Publishing with AI': th-cam.com/video/SZREWBlNr3c/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=SelfPublishingEmpire
I am impressed with the quick and easy process of making a coloring book with the use of AI. It's amazing how technology has made our lives easier and more convenient. This guide is perfect for those who want to make a coloring book in no time. Kudos to the creator of this informative video!
Thank you :)
Thanks for sharing Craig, really enjoying all the AI tools as out there as publishers. I've been using midjourney for a while and it's fantastic. I'm looking to do a video on this soon also. Wishing you all the best with the rest of your kdp and TH-cam journey.
Thanks dude, followed your channel and look forward to the video.
Thank you for this very helpful information and good luck on your coloring book series!
Thank you so much!
Your insect coloring book cover is pretty! TFS your technique!
Thank you so much for the video!! I was trying to similar things using Dalle-2, but mid journey seems to do much better job.
I think this is easily the most thorough and frank midjourney walkthrough video I've watched so far :). I feel the trick with midjourney generated images is to make them look as least "mid-journey"ish as possible... And you seem to have pretty much nailed this aspect. Plus, it's smart that you go through your images and polish them afterwards.. it's a habit i wanna remember the day I decide to try AI for my book interiors (still skeptical) ;). Thanks for sharing and keep up the great content!
Thanks Mariel. Completely agreed on making them look like they've been illustrated. Good luck when you do have a go :)
Thank you for showing us your example books. Good motivation.
The coloring book I’m creating currently is the opposite of AI. I’m hand drawing digitally on iPad. Taking a long time but it’s important for me to infused the intention & right energy into it for what I’m doing.
But this was interesting to watch. Thank you for the thorough explanation of your process.
BTW New sub here.
Thanks turtle. IMO hand-made will ALWAYS outdo machine made, but not many of us are talented enough to illustrate. If you want a review of one of your books in the future, I could do a comparison with an AI book :)
It is scary that AI is replacing us now, I got affected too as a translator, now ppl do a large amount of soul-less translations through AI
@@MrsChybowska does companies do not use human translator anymore to verify the accuracy of the AI translated scripts?
Thank you for sharing this video. I am excited to give this a try.
Hi Craig, good luck on your TH-cam journey, I will try and keep up with your content.
Thank you for the great tips! I have so many ideas for books but so little time and this really gives me a realistic way to make them happen. Appreciate you sharing your knowledge!
Glad it was helpful!
I've just started messing around with midjourney and I still haven't figured out how to export what I've created. This video is exactly what I was looking for.
Great stuff :).
Great video! Crazy to see how well this works!
Thanks for checking it out :)
Loved this man, well done.
Thanks a ton!
I'm amazed by this time saving method, seems to be giving great results which is pretty impressive. I've taken the long route and started doing it the traditional way without the help of an AI , my product won't be so formulaic but will have my personal touch. AI is afterall a tool to aid but ne need to use it carefully.
The trick with AI is to mix certain parts of a prompt to get out a crafted and more individual style so it becomes less of a generic output, for instance instead of just asking for a coloring page of a frog on a lillipad, ask for a coloring page of a frog on a lillipad, Pointillism, Japanese Garden, Pond, Orchids, Sunrise, Clouds, Coloring page for adults::10, Hand draw, pencil sketch, Black and white, Line art, Printable outlined art, Thin lines, Intricate details, In the style of....... add an artist [Name] or add a few artists to get a mix, This way the output is going to be more individualistic, there is a process to prompting once you get into it so your outputs are not going to match what others are producing.
Thank you so much! Brilliant video... I've started on some colouring books and you inspired me to stick with that square shape. Often when I try the 2:3 ratio, the images don't come out as good!! There are so many things I'm trying to do with Ai at the moment.... Not enough hours in the day! lol 😅
Haha I know, right!! I've got another video coming up today/tomorrow about ways to use ChatGPT as well :)
One of the best tutorials I've seen so far! I've been an artist my whole life and I'm done creating for pennies. 😁 I'm ready to make money now. Mid journey is the future! The only future for human artists now is watercolor, oil paint and acrylics - painting jumbo canvases on the sides of downtown buildings. Although I'm sure they can train robots to do that too! 😥 we need to start thinking of ourselves as art directors and not artists.
Renovarse o morir!
Great video Craig, Really liked how you went through each of the steps. I was really interested int eh chapgpt prompts you used to get started and I was not disappointed. Great job on the video.
Thanks Brian, I'm glad you liked it and I'll be sure to do some more AI videos as people seemed very interested.
Thank you for this content they are incridible ! Soo many possibilites are open on my mind now ! Amaizing , God bless you ! Grettins for Brazil , my english is not too good hehe
Great video. Did you have to use an upscaler like topaz labs to retain the detail in the images? Cheers
For 8x8 inch books with a bounding box it was JUST good enough without upscaling. It's definitely limiting me a little though in terms of style, and fingers crossed moving forward the quality increases.
Thanks for the breakdown!
Very cool! Thanks for sharing
Just a note about the AI art work you use, specifically in the EULA it forbids the use of any artwork conceived by (insert the name of the AI here as all of them have basically the same EULA) in any for sale publications what so ever unless you are a paying member and therefore licensed to use them also it states that any and all material that is generated by your suggestions can be subject to be used by the AI company as they see fit. They want their piece of the royalty pie through your subscription.....
Yep - you can only use AI generated images through MidJourney if you're on the $10 p/m tier or above. Always check the Terms :)
@@selfpublishingempire I just checked out the Midjourney site and it states that any of the paid options allow commercial usage. What you said about only being able to use images if you are on $30 and above worried me as I am on the basic tariff currently and have just published a book, but it states on the comparison chart that 'If you have subscribed at any point, you are free to use your images in just about any way you want.' However if you are on a lower tariff and your images can be seen by anyone, they can take them and use them for themselves.
@@pinktweedy3325 Ah thank you Pink Tweedy!! I'll be sure to mention any paid packages moving forward, thank you for clarifying that!!
Great stuff. How did you color the image for the cover? Thanks
It was a command on MidJourney that included color prompts, and then I used photoshop.
thanks for sharing great tips. Can you share how do you finalize the final image with your prompt and save the photo? any prompt with photo size ?
I just export the image from MidJourney, sometimes with a light rescale to increase the pixels :)
I dont generate coloring page
I generate colorful design and i convert it to coloring page by using pen tool so i can create good quality Drawing without missing details
Mastering the pen tool is such a great skill to have in the coloring book niche.
Thank you, it was very helpful information!
Thank you very much for the great video
Love! Love! But sometimes I'm getting the coloring page sitting on a table with pencils on top...which is super for a cover page. They did a nice job of the page itself. Would you just edit in and cut it to the page and then re-size it. Or is there a way to indicate not to include the table and extra stuff in the image?
Haha yes sometimes you get coloring pens in there unfortunately. I'd ignore those if I were you rather than trying to modify them. You should only get those very occasionally, if you're getting them quite a lot then you probably want to look at altering your prompts :)
How awesome!!! Thank you
Glad you liked it!
Thanks for the great video! I noticed there are a lot of black/grey shading in the images, are they suitable for coloring?
It depends on the subject for the books. Some more detailed ones like insects i include a higher detail with some shading, whereas with more straight forward designs I include no shading :)
@@selfpublishingempire have you found a way using midjourney to eliminate that shading? I've been trying to generate an image of an African American or Latina woman and every single time the hair and skin is pre shaded no matter what I type in. I suppose thats when photoshop skills would come in handy. Thank you for the video! It was so helpful. I am practicing creating coloring books for fun first - making some for friends and then will be attempting to upload to sell hopefully. It is so amazing what is possible.
@@abbyhollyn5691 No unfortunately not, a lot of the images do have some shading. However v3 to v4 was a HUGE improvement, so I'm hoping when v5 comes out it will be even better.
Really cool, although for me it doesn’t have the same energy/feeling as hand drawn, it’s just a vibrational thing. Thanks for sharing.
100% agreed. If i could afford to pay an illustrator I would and hopefully as I grow I will be able to do so. I wouldn't have ever used an illustrator for coloring pages, so this for me is basically instead of downloading pre-mades on Creative Fabrica and altering them.
Thank you so much
Fantastic information you are sharing and great ideas for passive income. Thank you for sharing so valuable information. Indeed will help having Adobe and graphic design skills. but my man, awesome job. Greetings from the Caribbean.
Thanks Eduardo, good luck with your pasive income creations!
This is Awesome! But what does Isolate do? And is there a way to get rid of the gray shading in the image?
Thanks! Isolate is a prompt that helps to remove anything in the background. A lot of trial and error with prompts, and re-doing commands is needed to remove shading :)
Great video, subscribed. Btw, did these books actually sell?
I only started making them in November/December, but yes a few of them are selling. My best selling coloring book has sold 115 units in the past 90 days
@@selfpublishingempire Very cool!!
Thanks so much for this. So interesting.
Thanks Liz :)
One of the clearest and easiest tutorials to follow. By the way, is it not required to upscale the images to more than 1024x1024 to get crisp results?
Thanks Niaz! Unfortunately at the moment the upscaling for coloring pages always makes the lines different and not ideal. So I use the 1024x1024 images. Most are good to use, but yes it is definitely pushing the limits. Fingers crossed soon MJ will allow us to change the initial output quality.
@@selfpublishingempire wouldn't it be possible to image trace these in illustrator and then scale up to any size you want?
Thanks for the video. What rule of thumb are you using to de decide of a nice is saturated?
Book Bolt is a good tool, but i use Publisher Rocket. Essentially it's making sure there's enough search volume to terms, but not 1'000s of search results.
Nice one.
What are the best ways to upscale the produced ai images?
You can upscaled within MidJourney but currently it doesn't work well for my purposes, so my next trial is going to be with Gigapixel
@@selfpublishingempire
Thanks for your response but I'm not even on midjourney but use other applications.
Talking about gigapixels hope it won't affect the quality of the enlarged results
Thank you!
You're welcome!
Great video. Instead of an ad at the end, have you considered using QR codes? It takes the customer straight to the books you want to sell them. I have a video on my channel showing good ways to use them... 😀
great idea!!
Thanks Craig, thank you very much! Really very informative. Believe me, you inspire me!🙏💖
Ah, thanks!!
very helpful and thanx
Hi, so awesome. Thanks for this idea. Is not a problem with images copyright? Like the example take a photo image from freepik or from canvas and use it in book? Every image it is 100% unique and no problem with copyrights? Thank you
MidJourney (with premium tier) gives you shared copyright to sell however you wish. I'd just make sure not to include any imagery that could be considered copyrighted, for example I wouldn't do coloring pages of micky mouse!
very useful, Thank you, how do we get free images for commercial use from Midjourney
If you have a MidJourney higher tier subscription ($30 p/m), it includes commercial use.
I had a very bad experience with KDP. I published some notebooks this way but the print outs had bad quality eg on white cover there were some black dots, on black covers there were some white dots. And customer service wasn’t helpful at all. I read a lot more people have the same problem at least in the UK :/
That's a shame. I would try not to be put off, and suggest trying again and making sure the proof copy is exactly how you'd like before publishing.
Did you check your files to see if anything was on the original corrupting the print ?
great thanks, please how do you color the photo to put it on the cover , thqnk you again
It's a slightly different prompt - use similar commands, but add colour words in the prompts :)
Just came across your channel, this is great. Hope you could answer me couple of questions if you don’t mind? 1- What is the page size of your square books? 2- Do you use your own ISBN number or Amazon one? Thanks and you just got a new subscriber!
Nice to have you here Rupert. I vary, but most are 8x8 inch through to 8.5x8.5 inch. That seems to be the largest possible for the MidJourney images to be good quality. And I use Amazon ISBNs currently, which limits me to selling through Amazon.
Amazing video!
You are so kind
Great video. Could you share some prompts for Midjourney?
I'm trying to not go too in-depth with prompts and instead sprinkle them throughout the video, but I'll have a think about it for a next video :)
@@selfpublishingempire Thanks man.
great stuff!
Thanks!
That's very nice, maybe you can make a video showing the midjourney plan's in details and what they mean, thanks.
Good idea yamit :) thanks!
beautiful books
Thank you!
Please can you tell me the prompt you used to make those amazing drawings? Especially the psychedelic mandala. I would be really grateful
Hi Sebiano, I'll do a video on coloring book prompts soon!
very useful
Thanks for the great video. Can I copyright the book? Or I don’t need to?
You shouldn't need to copyright the book, I don't think many in self publishing do.
Thanks for the video. Will we have copyright problems if we use midjourney basic to create pictures and then put them on amazon kdp?
I was incorrect in thinking it was only the $30 package. The $10 package is also fine to use on Amazon KDP :)
@@selfpublishingempire Thanks.
Very nice. How do you get the books physically published?
Thanks - via Amazon KDP print on demand.
amazing video. how many pages do you recommend per book?
As many as you can ;-) I do 40-50
Do you have a specific amount of space between the border of your image and the page? Like half inch or an inch or how much?
I’d look into what the best sellers in your intended niche are doing and do the same/similar. I have a 0.5inch margin on all sides personally for a 8x11inch book
What about copyright concerns for the images AI uses to populate your images?
Hi, Thank you so much for another great video. I'd like to ask how to get a paid subscription in ChatGPT? and if you're on paid subscription, all your creations are only visible to you? Can you dictate the size of the image you want to generate? thank you
As far as I know, Chat GPT is free (it's on trial).
Yes currently chatgpt is free. A paid subscription is needed for midjourney if you want to use the images commercially :)
Fantastic
Hi.. I have a doubt. What will be the final file size of your coloring book. I mean, this is the first time I didn't upload it before. My PDF file size exceeds 150mb but compression make smaller. Does it reduces the quality?? I'm using scribus software pdfx 1a file, that automatically convert rgb to cmyk. Do you have any tips about the settings in scribus?? Also tell about your cover template total height and width??
My books tend to be between 15-50mb for an 81 page coloring book with 40 designs. I use adobe InDesign to export the PDFs, so dont have any experience with scribus unfortunately. Id check the file size of the designs you're using to make sure they're not abnormally big.
@@selfpublishingempire is it OK to compress the PDF?? Bcoz I use PNG very high quality format 600dpi. Don't comfortable with the quality of JPEG.
Rights you give to Midjourney
By using the Services, you grant to Midjourney, its successors, and assigns a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, sublicensable no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable copyright license to reproduce, prepare Derivative Works of, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, and distribute text, and image prompts you input into the Services, or Assets produced by the service at your direction. This license survives termination of this Agreement by any party, for any reason.
This may work for someone who just wants to get their name known...but midjourney claims ownership rights until the end of time.
I dont see where it gives license to the user to sell anything that they created.
Right under that....
Your Rights
Subject to the above license, you own all Assets you create with the Services.
So in essence, both you and MidJourney own the rights.
Thank you for this insightful tutorial, did not know one could do this, so straight forward. Top G
Great thank you 🙏 I have a question : I looked how it works on Amazon KDP and they say that it isn’t permitted to publish text and images issued with IA. It’s against their rules, how you did succeed to publish them ? Thanks
You are allowed to use AI images as long as you have usage rights and you declare them :)
I haven't paid for the subscription yet, as I wanted to try it. However, after I described the image on the prompt, nothing showed up. I guess I have to pay for the subscription to try it?
How do you hide other people's images? It's quite annoying to keep scrolling up and down when searching for your image.
Thanks.
I wouyld advise watching some TH-cam videos on how to use MidJourney as you shouldn't need to scroll past other people's images - you message the MidJourney bot and then it's just your images in there :)
Right click the MidJourney Bot when your in the MidJourney channel and you can add the BOT to one of your own channels, you then do not have every other user and his dogs Art popping up as you have your own channel.
@@celtshaun1427 Thanks!
Great Video Thank you but I want to know if the other users of Midjourney has seen your generated images...
you have to pay for the most expensive package to keep your photos off the community site. in my opinion, it won't matter much as most will use your prompt and get similar images but not the same ones. that's why midjourney gives you commercial rights.
@@tyed94 As Ty says there's an option to pay for a private mode if you're worried about people taking your content. I don't really see the value for anyone taking random coloring pages I've made though, so haven't done that yet.
You can create a discord server then put the Midjourney bot in it
@@mohamed_deshaune people can still see your images on your profile and Midjourney feed
Hi, great video. Is possible to achive these results with leonardo or lexia ai? 😉
the AI's are changing consistently so I'm sure it will be possible, but as I've not used either of those I think you'll need to test some prompts and see!
Brilliant AI Idea. I have Adobe which helps. Can you do puzzle books using AI? Thanks for sharing, the book looks awesome. Should sell well.
Thanks :). You can you use ChatGPT to give you Wordsearch and Crossword questions and answers, but i don't think currently you can do puzzle type prompts on sites like MidJourney. I wouldn't be surprised if there were prompts moving forward for things like dot to dot though.
This is exactly what i have done. Good job! and thanks for the breakdown.
🙌🙌
Just one question: images made in AI cannot be copyrighted, Amazon requires original images, in case they ask, through their check, the authorship of an image, how do you respond? and thus how do you avoid a probable ban?
There are currently no restrictions on Amazon about using AI created content. It is original content for all intensive purposes.
I just tried my first few yesterday. Trying to make a geography based colouring book. When I named a specific pub in Scotland it gave me a generic pub. Is there a way to get it to generate an image from a specific photo or weblink?
You can try using a stock photo of that pub as a base command, perhaps turning on /remix mode as well. But no, currently if it's not a well known landmark/area/etc, the result may differ quite wildly.
The paid version of ChatGPT now has DALL-E 3 included and for children's color that we have figured out to make it consistently (mostly) build off the first page to make a book. Steep learning curve, but I think we are getting the hang of it. We'll be publishing that AI book within the next day or so. The plan it to do a couple of books a week.The Adventures of Lucy Lu: Finn's Dino adventure. How did you do the puzzle books?
P.S. could you put you Amazon link to your books?
Good luck! I dont link my amazon books as when i did that previously for another pen name 10+ copycats appeared within weeks which impacted my sales
Which app should I use for the AI colouring
There are lots of options. I use Midjourney, which is my go to.
when we upscale the image in midjourney this is enough correct? Some people I have seen do another upscale afterwards..
If printing relatively small books, then it is fine. If you want to go bigger then you'll need to upscale further :)
@@selfpublishingempire okay thank you. I just want to make sure I'm understanding. If we are doing 8.5 by 8.5 then the midjourney by itself will be enough right? I like the way your book turned out. You only did the midjourney upscale on yours correct?
@@Pub_Oasis4 Thanks! Yes, that's the largest I'd go (no bleed, and the coloring page within a bounding box) with no further upscaling. Else you can find AI upscalers on Google that upscale better than Midjourney does.
Thanks. This really helped me. Once you create a character using the AI can you upload that character and have the AI make changes to it? Could you create a character then have the AI put the character in different poses?
In theory it could work, but maybe not quite at the moment. I find that if you do that, the character changes a bit too much.
@@selfpublishingempire thanks. maybe i can find a way. i was hoping to illustrate my children's book that way.
Nice work bro, can you share the cost of that book. How much cost to printing of the book and how many page are in your designed book
In US - 40 pages, print cost is $2.15, I sell it for $7.99-8.99 (and amazon take 40% of profit)
@@selfpublishingempire thanks for reply
How did you print single sided? Did you left one page blank?
Yep, I tend to have images on the odd pages, and nothing on the even. Hoppe that helps!
Nice video brother, right to the point!
Is there an alternative to Midjourney that does coloring pages well?
I’m put off by Midjourney because there’s no privacy for the images we generate. We have to pay $20 extra per month (on top of the monthly subscription) just to keep our images private, which I think is ridiculous.
There is privacy with an additional payment. so that's an option, you could try the options on Stable Difusion, and also Canva have a new AI tool... I think we'll be seeing more and more of them!
There are a few, but you also have to pay after some free image generator option. If you search for Midjourney alternatives they will come up.
Nice video
Could you make a video on best way to make covers please
do they have to be 300dpi for Amazon? Because midjourney does not do 300dpi.
Nope. My advice would be to get an author copy before you go live to check the quality. Hopefully 300dpi is coming
@@selfpublishingempire Simple solution: Just use photoshop. AI images can be sloppy and require fine tuning. Slapping that shit and publishing it is lazy... but then again so is using AI to create a coloring book.
@@spencerpearson6250 I'm not advocating using AI for publishing, just showing what is possible currently :)
once i get all the pages ready, how do i turn it into a book?
Check out my other video - how to publish a book on Amazon :)
Promp: cartoon style vector, Steampunk , coloring page, completely white background, --ar 2:3,
I was just reading a thread by an artist about the ethical and copyright problems with AI art, do you have any comments?
Personally I am continuing to work on my drawing and learning to use Krita and graphics tablet in order to draw my own interiors. That was the point of wanting to do colouring books to begin with.
@@wendyfarrowartist Thanks Wendy. Authenticity is one part of it. But to be honest, you miss out on a whole lot of the process by getting a robot to produce other peoples art or writing. The end product is only one detail, it's the whole process that counts, both for the author or artist and for those who buy the final product.
I've made comments elsewhere on the ethical side of things, but it's a VERY hot topic understandably... I'll make a video today/tomrorow about some of the biggest questions raised :)
@selfpublishingempire do you have information as to whether the art created by AI is actually available for use? I read that some platforms are helping themselves to art without permission from the artist. As an artist, that worries me
does Mid Journey have a private mode? If everybody can use and see the images generated it's very bad!?
Yes, but you have to pay more for the private mode.
@@selfpublishingempire I prefer pay 💯
How many pages you design for 1 coloring book?
It depends on the niche, and therefore what the competition is doing. I have 40 pages as a go to for a good product, but will vary that.
Anyone else using Google Slides to format and create the coloring book internal pages ? I am using Photoshop to clean up and resize the individual images and then dragging and dropping them into google slides and then downloading as PDF ready for KDP, I find Google Slides a very easy and quick package to get the internals to PDF format.
Interesting to hear. I currently use InDesign, but I can see how Slides would be nice and easy :). Quality wise it seems ok?
Can I upload an image to midjourney and get it to make line art from that?
No unfortunately that's not possible at the moment. There might be AI options that can do this in the future though!
Then after you ones make this type of stuff with AI (that btw holds copyrighted material in it), do you put it up for a sale? 🧐
Yes, these coloring books are available to purchase on Amazon.
how much have you made from them so far?
Is it possible to access only my work to draw in my style? This way no person's work style is copied but my own.
You could try uploading it to midjourney, using the url as a prompt, and then using remix mode to make alterations
Is it free to use this images from mid journey
Yes, if you have a paid subscription you can use the images you create via midjourney.