STOP Creating Midjourney Coloring Books Like This....
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 มิ.ย. 2024
- I will be showing you how you should not be creating Midjourney coloring books for Amazon KDP. You are risking your account if you are following these strategies.
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That solution for dark areas was good. I'll use that.
With regards to the Greyscale coloring books, I have personally looked into this and yes there are professional coloring books such as the "Coloring Heaven" series of books and the Greyscale can be very dark on a number of pages, The problem arises when the majority of Amazon customers are not even hobby colorists and may not even have the correct pens and markers for the intended niche and will give very bad reviews when expectations are not met in the customers eyes when infact the coloring book is correct for it's intended market, which is why personally I would not consider spending time producing a Greyscale coloring book because it will just get bad reviews from the uneducated customers that know no better as they lack the knowledge or experience not a fault of theirs but it is frustrating not being able to enter this market for this simple fact.
I wanted to write the same and I'm glad you did it first. Grayscale is great indicator of shading and yes, if you're using poor quality pencils, then you wont be able to color the page. But even cheapest markers would do just fine, leaving you with nicely shaded image without too much effort.
My thoughts as well! Shows that there should be a market for adult coloring book classes and tutorials! There's lots of relaxing drawing tutorials out there, an adult coloring book tutorial in a similar format would be popular! ^^
OR, you col simply put this in your book description. Something like "This is NOT a beginner level coloring book. This Book is aimed at more advanced hobbyists with a deeper understanding of the use of Grey Scale art...."
This is definitely one of the videos that I needed. Darkness in the coloring pages is definitely something that I've been struggling with. I've even scrapped a few of my pages because of darkness. I didn't know how to fix it, so I appreciate this, thank you. I've upscaled on bigjpg for some images, but now that I zoom in on some of my other pages, I have a lot to fix with the blurriness. Thank you for this video!
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for sticking to the purpose of your videos and not a bunch of fluff. I appreciate it.
No problem
Great video
Loved the details you explain and resources! Great job!! Thank you😊
Thanks Jeffrey
Thank you so much for the video. The part about Darker Images was the best.
Glad you liked it!
Thanks for the reminders. I'm so bummed that someone copied your cover! I remember seeing your Maine coon coloring book before I even knew who you were -- it was absolutely stunning! I wanted to buy it just for the cover even though I don't color;)
I expected people to copy and there has been many more copycats. I'm glad you liked the cover, thanks for your support.
There are other problems when using Midjourney. Some sellers don't check the hair, hands and feet problems. This is really disappointing to buy a book with those problems.
You can checkout the video to fix the images. th-cam.com/video/DNN0NcsHOz8/w-d-xo.html
Very helpful video as usual. Thank you!
Thanks for watching!
Thank You very much sir wish you more sales
Same to you
This video is concise and well-explained, which is why it is easy to understand.
Thank you, I’m glad it was helpful!
Last tip was super helpful thanks bud
Thanks for watching!
Good video and insightful. It feels great to create something unique and original.
Thanks Jenny, anything is now possible using Midjourney
very helpful video thanks
Glad it was helpful!
Excellently explained...thanks
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you!
No problem
Great video! Thank you. You saved me from making a big mistake (images that are to dark to color).
Oh another one would be subjects that are white or black or both, Personally I nearly put a Panda, Sheep and a Polar Bear into a coloring book, Imagine the childs face upon starting to color 😂
Thanks, I’m glad it was helpful 🙏🏾
Great upload, thank you.
Thanks for watching!
Thank you sir 😍
Thank you
Excellent thanks
Thanks for watching
Hi Danny I hope you see this, I got book bolt as the suggestion but book bolt does not have the ‘Adjust’ icon when I select the picture so that I can adjust the contrast and brightness, do you know if they took this feature off? Please and thank you 🙏🏼
My frustration has been getting my first one published - hung up in review without emails or reasons why. Enjoyed this video!!!
Thanks, how long has it been in review for?
@@DannyOnDemand early April - I am so frustrated
@@tishsharp7525 that’s strange, I would contact Amazon and speak with them on the phone directy
@@DannyOnDemand they told me to watch an email - good thing I didn’t hold my breath or wait to eat for that to arrive. Anyway, I am going to try a new coloring book and follow yours, book bolts instructions so maybe that will be the deal maker!!
@@tishsharp7525 yes try and work on other books in the meantime. Keep me updated.
Okay love the book bolt image darker to lighter
Thanks!
hello brother can you help me by answering my question that why my book made by dalle is getting blocked by KDP . what are the reasons can you solve them. I am also informing kdp in the form while uploading that I am using AI tool but they blocked my book by sending me mail that it is against copy right law. I mean to say that they are saying I am using copy right material but seriously I made my book by AI DALLE TOOL. PLEASE DEAR HELP ME I AM VERY WORRIED OR ANYONE WHO READ AND WRITE COMMENTS HERE, PLEASE HELP ME
what is the plugin or extension you used to show the info in the black outline box @1:42? Thanks!
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Thanks for the video
With regards to the trademark, what if I search and no 016 comes up in the classes?
I'm asking this because I was testing with it and I typed Disney but nothing came in the class section
016 shows in most situations. Definitely Avoid Disney
What a great video. You may have already done a video about it. But have you come across any licensing issues with using Mid journey
Not yet! As long as you have the paid account. You should not have issues
@@DannyOnDemand I do I actually upgraded it to the thirty dollar a month plan. I've been making coloring books to synergize with my. Is youtube channel in youtube community. Not trying to get rich. Don't even care about making money. It's more about. The community thing. It was quite interesting going through the process. Of submitting content to KDP. The one big issue that I'm having is keeping. Image generation consistent. This even though mid journey has styles. I'm finding it difficult to keep a theme.
I tried to upload a png mid journey image to BookBolt to improve the darkness on my image. I joined using your 20% discount. I could not manoeuvre easily around book bolt once I signed in. I could not find where to go to, a screen with a page to upload an image. Then I discovered that a PNG image is not accepted. but JSON. I have never heard of JSON, unfortunately. I tried a converter from the internet but book bolt still gave me an error . Can we save as JSON from Mid Journey? or how do you upload your images to bookbolt? Many Thanks, Margaret
Hi Magaret, thanks for subscribing to book bolt. PNG images are accepted. Please watch this video from 9 minutes on where I walk you through the full process: th-cam.com/video/ZQMdJRm379A/w-d-xo.html
Any more issues, just message me again.
@@DannyOnDemand ok. Will do
Forgot to say thanks
Hello Danny, i'm hoping you can help me. i just bought Bigjpg but it only downloads in png, which won't upload to Canva, I tried converting it but the file is too large. i have 45 drawings. thanks in advance
Try to upscale it x2
Please I do have a question:
I published a low content book back in December and it never sold a copy. But 3 days ago, I woke up to 106 copies sold, then the next day I sold 3 copies of same book and 1 copy the day after. Haven’t sold a single copy for the last 2 days. Also when I check the sellers rank, it hasn’t changed and it seems like the book haven’t been ranked. I really don’t understand what is going on maybe you have some answers for me.
Thanks
Did you notice if Amazon themselves put it on a flash sale ? sometimes they will sell a book at cost and still pay you the commission for the full price.
@@celtshaun1427 I checked but the price was still the same.
That seems strange, I would contact Amazon to find out more
I still think Amazon may have put it on sale, If so it proves that the book sells, So it might be worth considering running an ad if you have not thus far probably try with an auto ad and see if it takes off, anyway well done and best of luck 👍
You should consider running Amazon ads to increase ranking and get visibility to your book. New books Amazon helps you publish and put in front of people for up to maybe 30 days, then that is it.
Because you had over 100 sales in 1 day that says people like your book and are willing to buy it!
Even spending 4 to 5 cents a day to start with at a $1.00 or $2.00 per day ads campaign will help Amazon to get your book in front of more people. As you make more sales increase by only 2 or 3 cents a day to see where the sweet spot in advertising is...if sales stop or really decline consider going back down 2 or 3 cents and monitor your sales again till you hit that sweet spot again in sales....just and idea to consider. Sales increase rankings!
Danny: I am making a colouring book. It’s a story form. I want to write some text as a preface to each image. How will I structure the pagination? Normally, I have an image page, then a blank page.
Hi Margaret, Yes, just keep that structure of an image and then make sure that the following page is blank.
@@DannyOnDemand Thank you my friend. By the way, Bookbolt is great.
Consider Midyourney or Canva. You can upload other images there and add texts. Plus they have a free version available!!! Happy publishing!!!😊
Canva has free version, Midjouney has a small $10 approximately cost per month.
If i generate a image from midjourney or any other ai, Do i have ownership of that? I mean if its not a character just a random image
And fonts or images or free templates on canva can we use them in publishing?
With Midjourney you must have be on a paid plan to sell your images. Leonardo is free to use and sell images. I would avoid using canva content.
@@DannyOnDemandbro any free alternative for canva ? And with Leonardo i will have no issues right ?
Btw thanks for the replies it really helps, as a Beginner i have so many doubts but you cleared them all 🙏👍
Danny explains the part on how not to get in trouble, but if you are thinking you have special ownership of the stuff you generate, in the US it does not appear so, no, so anyone can copy your art later. If you start making changes to it, it might be a gray area, but you are in a business where you probably just need to live with that happening - it is probably not worth trying to do much, other than report to amazon etc.
hey i just made my first sale.
Can you tell me what happens from here? I did not get the mail for my sale though
Congrats, well done! You don't receive an email each time you make a sale but you will receive your pay for this month in July.
hello , do I need to register a trade mark or no need? thanks
What do you want to register a trademark for?
@@DannyOnDemand Just in case someone uses your brand name，one more question, Do I need to add the author's name on the book, like "by
DannyOnDemand"? thanks!!
Hi, i have 2 coloring books generated by MJ, but how it really is, do we have rights to publish it with our rights? as i've read that nobody has rights to AI generated images?
You must have a MJ Pro Account and it's a good idea to get the Privacy add on so your created images are not shown in the public gallery. Reading the fine print on MJ, you have the full copyright to your images as long as you have a Pro Account and the right to publish them where you want to. Without that level of account, you don't hold the rights on the images, and without the privacy add-on then everyone else can see what you have made and save it and use it themselves. To date, there hasn't been any court case I've heard of that specifically targetted MJ in such a sweeping way as to make it illegal to use the generated imagery in any country let alone worldwide. All that is currently there is some court cases by some groups of artists that haven't been settled yet. It's currently the Wild West out there.
I couldn’t have answered it any better than @techcowgirl
@@techcowgirl5393 incorrect - with MJ any paid subscription gives "General commercial terms" whether it's the $10 plan or above, The Pro level gives you the option to turn on "Stealth Mode" so others cannot see your work in the gallery, With regards to copyright that's down to where you live as the US has indicated that AI cannot be copyrighted but in the UK copyright is granted to the creator, I think it will take a few years to iron out the wrinkles until everyone is close to singing from the same page........ watch this space seems quite apt lol.
@@celtshaun1427 I have the pro level, and the privacy add on. I'm also not American, nor in the USA. I also make many changes to the graphics for my works. AI is more a component for me than a simple product. It's definitely the wild West frontier currently with AI!
if we cant create images in Midjourney AI for coloring books, then what other software or platforms do you recommend? Or are you saying that the only legal way to do this is to create content with an artist or on your own?
You can use midjourney, I only recommended ways to keep your account safe if you choose to use Midjourney!
I would suggest watching at least the 5 first seconds of the video..
Why “Large Print”? They’re coloring books. Images….. Or is that just an advertising “feature” to appeal to the older crowd?
You have to niche down when creating coloring books and find a specific audience. Make sure you watch my midjourney colouring book series from start to finish to understand the full process.
New sub. I’m real scared of thrives taking my stuff. I don’t use AI or Canva, eyc
Thanks for subbing! They will still try to take it even if you don’t use AI or Canva
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Hi do you have a course or a coaching that you do ? i will really like to learn a propper proven method.
Hi, I don’t have a course or coaching but I will have an ebook out early next month.
@@DannyOnDemandcan't wait!
The people who COPY also tend to be the same people who close down their business and run with people's cash after a decent number of orders come in and any resistance starts to appear from Amazon, etc. It's the customers who suffer, so unless it's an officially licensed product, customers should avoid it. For the artists, just don't be that guy.
Very true but there is so many out there.
yes yes yes
Yes!
Except that if you create AI unless you are UK based you do not have the copyright to it unless you change it substantially. So they can copy it. Technically you are also telling AZ that you have a copyright you do not as well, its a minefield. I you want to do greyscale then all you have to do is say greyscale apparently its a thing.
Have you read midjourney terms and conditions?
@@DannyOnDemand I did I spent 12 hours researching these laws and fair US laws and have looked at copyright laws before, I also just reread them and you own all assets subject to law ( note it does not say copyright although copyright can be an asset, normally when its copyright they just say copyright so I'd be cautious of the wording here.) if you buy their service, and unless it's changed in the last couple of weeks US law says you cannot copyright AI unless substantial changes have been made. When I read that substantial changes pretty much changed it. UK Law states you can. And the EU if there's some human intervention can be copyrighted. Most ai art I've seen being sold seems to only have cleanup on them so no real intervention. It's a tad ambiguous but would need to be a reasonable amount. So if you input a command and output work and clean it up, that would not constitute substantial human intellectual input. This isn't subject to Midjourney terms its subject to where you live and your country's laws when you create the art first. At least in the UK where UK law trumps US law under copyright cloud law.
@@KernowFay
Thanks for your awesome detailed response Fay. I really appreciate it when people take the time to do the research. I’m still reading further into what they define as substantial changes as technically you need a lot of human intervention to turn these images into a Coloring book, it’s not like we are just downloading these images and selling them on Etsy. Your info had definitely provided more guidance on different countries laws. I feel much more safer using Midjourney than Canva or Creative Fabrica with their confusing licensing terms and many people have had there accounts suspended for using there services.
@@DannyOnDemand The easy solution when generating a coloring page is to generate the subject and background separately in MJ and then combine the two images in a graphics software package making a new coloring page giving you access to copyright, Luckily I am UK based so I do not have to do this step.
Why I us AI keep it simple and pay for AI tools and Canva pro. Never us any cartoon that is out there
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That is the one market I don't like. AI color books, I understand you use AI-generated photos, but selling is completely different. Also, I don't think these coloring books sell very well. I like to do keyword research, and research shows me that numbers are low and the market seems to be saturated. Well, you can sell, but you have to find a very low comp keyword.
Thanks for watching, you should checkout my Ai coloring book series from start to finish then your opinion might change.
Stop using AI because it steals the work of artists :/
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