Create Unlimited KDP Coloring Book Images Using FREE Photographs
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One of the biggest problems with creating KDP coloring books to self publish on Amazon is getting good quality images that can be used commercially and that are original. I show you how to find copyright free images online and then use a technique with the pen tool in Affinity Designer to create a colored image and black and white lined image. These are great for the covers and interiors of your coloring books. Using this technique could literally give you an unlimited supply of images that you can create yourself and create books to sell online.
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00:00 KDP Coloring Book
00:53 Coloring Book Interiors
01:48 Image Editing Software
02:57 Finding Photographs
03:47 Reverse Image Search
04:41 Pen Tool
06:20 Outlining Image
12:35 Creating Book Cover
14:12 Creating Book Interior
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About this video - In this video I show you how to take a copyright free image and use it to create images for the covers and interiors of your KDP coloring books.
Photo by unsplash.com/@eliekhoury
I am constantly amazed by how creative technology can be. Thank you for the instruction Paul!
You're welcome. Glad you found it helpful.
This is THE CHANNEL FOR KDP ... there's no other channel explain it better! Thanks Paul
Thank you. Glad you enjoy the content. 👍
This is awesome. I used to do colouring in for hours as a child. I also did painting by numbers. Never thought I could make a living out of keeping inside the lines, but I went on to work for a small animation studio, where, at peak times I would be hired by my husband to help him with the hand painting of all the little shapes, rather like this lion. And now I can use these techniques to come to the subject from a different angle. I have got so many ideas just from watching your videos, thank.
Thank you for sharing. Glad you found it useful and can use the techniques you've learned to create some coloring books.
So glad I found your channel, you are the best teacher, you know how to go step by step in your instructions. Thank you!
Thank you. Glad you found it helpful. 🙂
Paul one must say a heartfelt thank-you for your video ideas and excellent help here .
Your annotations in the section below is also greatly appreciated.
Thank you indeed !👍
You’re welcome. Glad you found it helpful.
I bless the day I came across your videos Paul. Thank you very much ❤️
You're welcome and thank you too for watching. Glad you find them helpful.
This is awesome! I have already made some line drawings of my own art and photos, wondered if there was a faster way to create a coloring book... and here you are! I have Affinity as well so I'm excited to give this a try. Thank you! Subscribed ;)
That's great. Glad you found it useful. And thank you for your feedback.
Wow! This is such a useful technique! Thanks so much Paul! 👐
You're welcome. Glad you found it useful.
Thank you so much, Paul! I just started my little Home-Pulishing to use up my spare time. I found your videos are so so informative. I just published my first notebook yesterday following your video! I will buy your a cupa when I make my first £!!! :)
Congratulations! That's great to hear. Glad you were able to put the information into action. Well done. 👍
Thank you for the tutorial. I found that Midjourney blending works so nice for a similar, faster, less manual approach. I spent a total of 2 minutes in my photo editor, for cropping and quickly erasing parts of images needed for blending.
You're welcome.
Thank you so much , love all of your clip . makes my ideas in digital artwork grow.
Thank you. Glad you've found them useful.
That is so cool. You're quite the artist! Thanks. :)
I couldn't get the transparency background to work. Will you show us how to do that again a little slower. I tried several times.
Thank you for sharing this technique! I am going to try and use this technique for my next coloring book!
You're welcome. Glad you found it helpful.
Thank you very much Paul, for sharing such a wonderful technique!! It's mooore better for me, than drawing images from scratch, because I am not a good painter😁
me too I'm horrible at drawing, so i use other pictures parts as sketch then make my own original drawing, for example if i want to draw a *cat* i grab his body from image 1, and eyes from image2, then a tail from another image and collect them then eventually add some details.
that's because i have no skills in drawing, but I'm trying to learn 😅
You’re welcome. Glad you found it helpful.
Ihavent touched Ps in a looooong time, and this helps me get back in track really quickly. Tahnk you for the tutorial! Really simple and easy to understand! I hope I can make a colouring book with about cities!
You're welcome. Glad you found it helpful.
Thank you so much for this video! I'm going to try this in Procreate with the selection tool and color fill. I didn't think of using Gaussian blur though.
Yes, that should work well.
Love this. Looks amazing. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you.
Amazing video. Thanks so much!!
You're welcome. Thank you for watching.
Hi Paul...I have gained so much knowledge from you!! I wanted you to know I appreciate all of your info.
I used your affiliate-link to Publisher Rocket just now. I could have used many other great TH-camrs, but I chose you as a way of saying; Thanks, Paul :)
Thank you, that’s much appreciated. Glad you’ve found the videos helpful.
Wow. This was awesome, time consuming, but awesome. This just has so much potential. Thank you. I wish I had Affinity Designer. I may try to get Inkscape, if I can't figure it out on Photoshop. Thanks again.
Thank you. Glad you found it helpful.
You want illustrator
This is so cool! I have the entire Affinity suite but did not know this. I was trying other, less suitable methods.
Glad you found it helpful. 👍
Wow, this is amazing Paul. Thanks a lot ☺️
You're welcome. 👍
Awesome tutorial. Loved it. Thanks Paul
Thank you, that's much appreciated.
Thanks to you l realize l have illustrator 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️ l learn a lot already from you in one hr 😮😊 thank you!
That's great. It is superb software.
That's very interesting method. Thank you for sharing. I need more practice but I tried on some simple corgi pic and I'm amazed :)
Yes, I think it's the best way to create original coloring book images other than drawing from a blank page.
Now I know how to use my own photos. Thanks so much.
Fantastic Tutorial and Consistent Creativity Spot on Paul...Cheers....!👻
Thank you. 🙏
Awesome video, I was looking exactly for this method :) Subscribed and gave you a thumbs-up. Next stop -- your playlist for how to create coloring books! Thank you!
You're welcome. I'm glad you've foound the videos helpful.
Always such informative videos!!
Thank you. 👍
Holy cow!!! He is Gooood!!! Unfbelievable!!
Thank you so much for the tutorial.
You're welcome. Thank you for watching. 👍
Definitely I'll do that, Thanks Paul
You’re welcome.
Thank you!
Wow! That's amazing!
Thank you.
Interesting method. I do the same thing, except I use the apple pencil and trace over the image with the brush tool. Never thought of trying the pen tool.
Yes, that's an alternative way. 👍
You may have just changed my life pointing out that "smart mode" option to the pen tool.
Glad to be of help. I was amazed when I recently discovered it. It has saved a lot of time!
Interesting technique, thanks for sharing 😊👍
You're welcome. 👍
My head swells. This is alot of work.
AWESOMENESS PAUL! THANKS FOR YOUR HELP☝🍕❤🤩💥💯🙏
You're welcome.
Thank you for doing this
You’re welcome. Thank you too for watching.
Thank you for once again producing a great informative video. I have learned so much from you and I am actually making a profit on my puzzle books. Do you know of any programs that make color by number coloring books? I'm especially interested in the mosaic type.
That’s great. Glad to hear you’re making money from your books. I don’t know of any software. I have done a video on this channel about creating them.
This is so STINKING COOL!!!
Thank you!!
Great video! Stylar AI might interest you - it's designed for logo, 3D, and interior design. Plus, it now supports adding text to images, along with image upload and auto prompts. Still developing, but could enhance your projects.
I love your video man it was a lot of help I have I have got many information from you and familiar video I would love to play thank you thank you so much Divine artist to this side from India
You're welcome. Glad you found it helpful.
Thank you so much for this vedio 💕💕
My pleasure 😊
Sha-maza-bobs! 🎉Thank you for this 😊
You’re welcome! Thank you for watching.
Most wanted video 👍thankyou
You're welcome. Thank you for watching.
Wow this video is for me ❤️❤️
I'm glad it's of help.
Awesome!! Thank you very much!!
You're welcome.
Well its a bit of a flaff using a pen tool if you are beginner using a mouse on a lots of details , however for a complete none techy way you could use old school .
1 print the picture fairly large size low quality on a piece of paper
2 get a 2b pencil gently rub pencil on its edge on the reverse of the paper so it covers the image area on the side
3 get a clean piece of paper a clip board put the clean piece under print image
4 carefully sketch around the outlines of the edges you want to transfer onto the paper using a bit of pressure with the pencil or pen
5 go over the transfered outline image with a black pen use a rubber to remove unwanted smugdes, get your outlined image scan that into your computer
6 retouch the image removing any grey bits in basic photo editor
7 put into your favourite background remover
8 oulined image good to go for colouring book
9 for colour make a copy image and use a paint editor to fill in desired colours
Or print the outlined image then colour in by hand and scan the image back computer
Also a bit of a flaff but more do- able for the less techy then fiddling trying to draw with mouse .
Thank You!!!
You're welcome.
we can paste quote of left and drawing on right and also drawing on left and full coloured on right
Paul your very creative
Thank you. 👍
Something I started doing is using an AI Art tool to create original designs. You can even write a theme for your book or art and just keep generating new images with that theme.
What’s the cost like for AI?
That sounds interesting. Not really looked into AI art just yet but from what I've seen looks very promising.
Thank you so much
You’re welcome.
Hi Paul. Great job. If the original image is copyrighted would your outline image that you produced using the Pen tool still be under the ownership of the original creator? Thanks
You would risk copyright infringement.
Really helpful
Thank you.
u can also make the half of the lion's Face only , then do mirror effect to save time
👍
Thank you so much, but that's a lot of work :)
Bardzo dziękuję za pomoc..
Thank you Paul for this video, pls is the interior going to be lion image only or some images will be added
More images would be added.
it is an amazing tecnique but I would like to make 90 degrees corners too and I can't find it with this tool it is possible? Thanks a lot for share your knologment!
You can create a horizontal line by holding down shift and using the pen tool and then do a vertical line at 90 degrees to it by again holding down shift. That's the only way I know of getting a 90 degree corner.
When downloading from Canva...we choose PDF Print but should we flatten it and choose CMYK? Or leave it all unchecked and keep as RGB? We have had some issues downloading 120 page books when we chose CMYK (which we thought it should be for KDP). Thank you. Great video.
I leave all mine as RGB. And yes, it's probbaly better to flatten your pdf. I think it makes the file size smaller which helps if your cover has a number of layers.
Affinity now has a new version, V2. Do you know if there are changes that affect the procedure you show for the lion? And do you use only Affinity Designer? Or have you found Affinity Photo or Affinity Publisher also useful for kdp? (They are offering all 3 of the new version at a special price) Thank you so very much for your excellent teaching!
I only use Affinity Designer. I haven't tried the new version but the procedure sill still be exactly the same as it's only using the basic functions of the pen tool.
@@paulmarles Thank you
Very nice design. Is this type of design in demand in any market place? I also want to work. thank you
Yes, in the coloring book market.
Hello Bro you are doing great job and i m Anil Kantilal from Pakistan i have been working for TV channel for 18 years i have produced and Director several documentary for local channel in pakistan. i really thankful of you that you have touch me how to work for Amazon Kdp low contact book and i m follow your instruction and your every video very helpful for me thanks again and keep it up
regards
Anil Kantilal
You're welcome. I'm glad you've found the videos helpful. And welcome from Pakistan!
Hi , Can you please make a video on how to use KDP templates in abobe illustrator for coloring books for amazon? But show the entire process please . Will really be helpful
The process is the same for Illustrator as it is for Designer. Give it a try!
@@courageandfaith im trying on illustrator does the image have to be in the same layer to use color picker? is there an easy way to use the curvature toll near other pieces?
Thanks!
You're welcome and thank you very much too. Very much appreciated.
@@paulmarles My pleasure Paul. By the way, do you happen to know how we might be able to get the blank spaces in the coloring book made into color by numbers ?
amazing 👍
Thank you.
@Paul Marles At 4:28 you explain to find out if the photo is appearing on istock page. Do you mean that the photo should NOT be appearing on istock page? so that you can use it without any copyright issues ?
That is correct and other stock photo websites.
@@paulmarles But i thought if it is offered on stoch website it means you can use it for commercial without having issues with copyright!?
HOLY SMOKES! 120 page coloring book?? So, you"re suggesting replicating this lion technique 120 times? By the time we got done with the last image, we'll all have flying cars!
Normally you'd leave the page on the reverse side blank. So, if it was 120 pages that would be 60 images. Most coloring books are less than 120 pages.
Wondering how long it took to complete this image? It seems a very labour intensive way of making a line image from a photograph, I'm sure I've seen other ways of doing it that are much simpler but perhaps not in Affinity?
It's going to take at least an hour per image, maybe longer. I use a similar method. And unfortunately, there aren't other ways to convert photos to coloring pages. Believe me, I've searched far and wide.
Graphite on Mac and iOS is the closest you can get, but it's not perfect.
The least labor intensive method is to buy coloring pages from a Fiverr artist or a vector stock site.
Otherwise, there aren't any programs that automate this process...yet
This image was particularly complex but most automatic image trace programs don't do as good a job.
@@paulmarles Good marketing idea. You also can do this in Adobe illustrator using image trace. It's automated. One can use sliders to get the look they want and also the number of colours.
@@gihonmirth6481 yes but adobe don't do vectors this program have this facility
@@carolinafinocchio5684 illustrator is all vectors-- you are thinking of photoshop
Thank you paul ,can I do this on my phone please?
No, you wouldn't be able to do this unfortunately.
Hi, Paul. Have you talked about using AI art for KDP in your videos? Interested in your thoughts about it. Thx!
No, I haven't. I've only briefly tried it but couldn't create anything useful. Will look inot it some more though.
@@paulmarles thanks! Will wait for your video on it 😊
Have you ever seen one of these line drawing books where each area is numbered and charted to a colour so each certain areas are coloured the same??
Amazing
Thank you.
Based on your previous video, could you use ai to create a coloring image, then repeat the process in this video to bypass the dpi issue like with canva?
Yes, that would be possible.
Interesting.
nice work
Thank you.
OMG.i wanted to learn this for my project..do you have classes that you offer subscribers
All I have at the moment are the videos on TH-cam. I am working on a course at the moment.
A question. Do you Adobe illustrator or Adobe designer or are the one and the same.? We are self publishing through Amazon. Just learning. Love your videos.
I use Affinity Designer. They are both very similar.
This is awesome. Curious if there is any AI that does this automatically.
Not that I know of.
Hi Paul please can you tell me why you made the image bigger than the actual 8” x 11” page size at 8.625” x 11.25”
Thank you
It would be for an 8.5 x 11" book and it would be the size of a page with bleed.
Thank you but won’t some get cut off
Hey 😊is Affinity Disaner free to download or to work online on it? Thanks
No, it's a one off payment but I think they give a 30 day free trial.
How it take time for this picture
Very interesting.
Thank you.
@@paulmarles You're welcome. Check your Facebook account for a message from me, thanks.
Hi !! This is awesome. I think photoshop does not allow me to switch between pen tool colorpicker and then filling option. It always wants me to raster the layer. Only the lasso tool allows me this, but then i do not have the outline to separate the different color areas. can anyone help me on this ? Thanks
This method I show is for vector editing software.
@@paulmarles but I found a way, i can use the lasso tool in combination with the brush tool and than add outlines in fx. Then copy the fx and paste it to all layers. Thanks for answering quickly and showing this technique it makes so much fun to create things
Wow nice
But can one use a smartphone to do this ....?
I don’t know of any vector editing software you can use on the phone I’m afraid.
I have a lot of respect for your ability and creativity, however, I’m not that creative, nor tech savvy, and all I have is my phone and iPad. Should I be thinking of doing something besides coloring books?
Theres many other types of low and medium contebt books you can do using your ipad.
Good Day, so it is best to have blank page between each of the drawing? Will KDP-Amazon bounce it back? Plus, once you created the coloring pages and added blank pages, I notices my remainder coloring pages are automatically deleted
One side of the page would have the image and the other side of the page would be blank.
Much work for something you can do with a Photoshop script in 1 second. :D
I’d love to see this photoshop script that can take a raster image like this, convert it to a vector image, simplify the shapes and retain the colors. DM me on Instagram or Twitter.
@@paulmarles Did you ever find a script to do this? Or parts of these steps
Please.
Can I use affinity designer and it's pen tool on an Android phone.
It in my pleasure if I get a reply
No, you can't I'm afraid.
Omg!!!
Isn't there any photo to sketch tool?😮
Hi Paul do i video about new Amazon algorithm A11 update, the system be coming smarter and smarter ,
I’ll look into it. 👍
Bonjour Est ce que logiciel inffinity désigner est gratuit ou pas?
You have to pay for it.
@@paulmarles ok, can you tell me how much the price please??
Do you skip a page in Canva, too? I have never used KDP before, but would like to learn more.
Yes, you would.
please sir is there any site that I can create them kind of image
please help me out
I'm a writer that really don't know how to sell my books
You can use Inkscape.
is there a simplier way to do this with all the AI technology lately?
How long did it take for you to do that one picture?
About 40 minutes.