I recently made a book using an image from Raw Pixel. Before I submitted the book I sent an email to Raw Pixel to ask if I could use the image. They replied, saying "create away". I also downloaded the artist's bio which gave the date of death and the Creative Commons text. My submission was flagged by KDP and I was able to provide the necessary authentication and my book was published.
Just a note to let you know that I watch almost all your videos. Not only do you present good information without a lot of fluff, but you have a personal style and presence that's quite relatable. At least, I find it so. Thanks for your work.
That's nice! Have you used free art or commissioned someone? perhaps made the art yourself? I am curious to see your books! I have published two coloring books myself with original art I drew myself :D
@@jazeldarae my notebooks are the ones that sell a bit too and I sold one coloring book myself. Just curious to see your coloring book, could you link it? 😊 I can link mine too if you want to check it out 😉
@@MariJadeWrites we can't link it, those kinds of comments aren't allowed. But, I'll tell you where I get my interiors. I get them from creative fabrica mostly
I am making a third coloring book, I am about to publish it in the next couple of days, about to finish the last piece of lineart for it :D I am drawing the illustrations myself, it's so fun. :) Thank you for an interesting video!
Congratulations, I'm glad for you and I wish you well. I would like to draw my own illustrations for coloring books too. I just have to look up how to get my art to my computer since I don't use an I pad...yet... : )
@@leendz2023 I sold some lined notebooks, and sold one coloring book online. I ordered some author copies of my coloring books and sold those to friends and family, so I suppose that counts as sales too, those were about 30. ☺️
Awesome Paul, thanks, especially for your style. I can't stop watching you, I feel like I' m on Netflix , can not stop the "next episode" from auto play.....:)
Never in my life, have I Heard anyone say it as "Van Goff" It's "Van Go" The G and the H are silent. Anywho! I Can't stop watching your videos, and bookmarking the sites you suggested! You're gonna make my bookmarks congested! Thanks for making me addicted, while I Get inspired!!! 🥳🤪🤩😎
I was brushing my teeth this morning, and thinking 'hmmm how can I include real art like Monet into colouring books without having problems?". The I open UA-cam with my breakfast and see this as the first suggestion. More anxiety about UA-cam tracking my life, but also more gratitude to Paul for answering my 'prayers' 😁
Thank you so much for your videos! You taught me how to make a notebook…I followed your easy, concise instructions and was very surprised! Thank you so much 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Sorry ignore my question, I decided not to be lazy and found the answer myself, to any others out there the answer is Yes but not before the publishing process has been completed. By the way i find your content very inspiring Thanks
I just happened upon your channel about a week ago, and I am VERY impressed and eating up every bit of it that I can! I've published 6 journals and another low content notebook and I am chomping at the bit to make more. Love your content and very very appreciative of your videos. It shows that you were a trainer before because you have a natural knack for it. I do want to say on a side note that you remind me very much of an actor I saw in Doc Martin, John Alderton, in the show title "Of All The Harbours In All The Towns". He's a captain! Anyways, thanks again and I'll be around to watch all of your stuff!!
Such an excellent video,thank you! I enjoyed the designing advice. If you could, I'd love for you to do a tutorial on how to convert an imperfect hand drawn line drawing into a digital format with smoothed and perfected lines that can be used for colouring books etc.
Just stumbled on your channel. Thank you so much for these videos! They are so informative and helpful. I'm a stay at home mom trying to earn my own money at home and I am going to try making coloring books and journals to sell on Amazon.
@@paulmarles Thank You, and I am going to go for gold… plus love all your information , sometimes that part of my brain just misfires 😂.. thanks for keeping me in check… and just keep saying Amazon 🤣💗 I love it…. As well as niche 🎉🎉
Your videos are so great...would be absolutely wonderful if you could put all those websites you are using in the description as well...that would save your viewers from searching the video again. Thank you very much 🌹💚
Great vid! Bonus material: impression of publishing professionals. :} One thing I came across re open licensing. An image might be in public domain but some commercial sites take the image and 'enhance' it. Meaning they change some characteristics of the image, at that point it is their own copyright and no longer in public domain unless they expressly give permission. However the image might be available on another site, like your example of the Met Museum's site that lists free, open licensing, and that image, because not altered by some imaging software and by specific permission of the Met is free to use commercially. Of course it's good to research because even the Met could be wrong, I suppose. Seems to me the commercial for-profit photo sites are always a risky gamble.
I had a handful of coloring books on KDP a few years ago but took them down and deleted all my files after they went a year with no sales. Getting back into it on faith-based themes as it seems that Christian coloring books have low competition and I can advertise them on my own website. Working on a horses coloring book right now.
Thanks for all of your videos, I’m a regular viewer and find your videos the easiest to understand and follow, so thank you again. I am curious about one aspect of keywords that after watching all of your videos I’m still unclear. Theoretically speaking, do you need to use the full short tail/long tail keyword phrases when filling in your keywords? For example, do you need to repeatedly put “gifts for mom, gifts for friends, gifts for dad, gifts for…” each time you intend to use that type of keyword or is having “gifts for…” once allow you to just add the other keywords to follow such as, “gifts for mom dad friends coworkers…” etc? So so you have to put the phrase together to be indexed or do they index by combining all the individual words and piece them together? I hope that question is clear. Thank you!!
Hey Paul, I had a question or suggestion for a video....do you have a plan for Q4? I see so many videos out there of KDP low-content authors who are disclosing their plan of attack for Q4. Do you have a plan or schedule or routine that you follow that would be helpful for the rest of us? I am creating books and following your wonderful advice. But I'm not cranking out a 100 at a time. With my niche research I'm making sure that my books have good quality content that people will want to buy. Is there an amount of books that you suggest I should be creating at this time? I'm also doing keyword research, but I haven't gotten a sale yet. I started November 2020, but I was just wondering if you have a routine that you follow in Q4 to get the most out of this profitable time for KDP authors. Love your videos and all your suggestions.
Hi Paul! Love your videos. Do you know how I would do this in Photopea? I was trying to follow along but using Photopea and I didn't see a Stroke tab, so I'm stuck. I've downloaded Inkscape, but I haven't gotten used to it yet. Maybe I'll try there.
Thanks for sharing all these useful information Paul. How many books do you publish per for low content book niche, i.e. 2-3 or 10-20+ with different covers?
Can you make a video on how much of a passive income KDP NC/LC is after you've quit the business. Would be interesting to know if books will make organic sales after 5, 10 or more years!
Indon't think he has been doing KDP for 10 years, or even 5. And passive income would depend completely upon how well everything was selling when you stopped doing KDP but that could easily change at anytime if things change as to what is popular as far as themes go, colors, etc.
Great video like always! I have a question about copyright and coloring books. I've noticed so many Disney, Horror and Cartoon coloring books that use copyright characters seamlessly without any consequence. Coloring Book Cafe just put out a book called Classic Horror Coloring Book filled with copyright movie horror characters. Can you possibly make a video explaining how they are allowed to get away with it? Maybe characters in black/white aren't in violation of copyright? Thanks a lot.
@@paulmarles Thanks for the reply sir. I'm still curious about the gray line involving parody and copyright characters. For example this trading card company has been putting out cards called "Garbage Pail Kids" and always draws movie character in a cartoonish/doll way and they have been doing it since the 80's. I'm assuming if I make a cute/kawaii horror coloring book and don't reference their names I should be fine? Thanks.
Can anyone recommend a tutorial for doing the line art in Inkacape? Or maybe Paul can do one. Thank you for the video. Great content! I think I'll attempt my first coloring book soon!
I wonder... Would there be a market for a coloring book of Renaissance butts? Because I really think that while very few people would search for that specifically, if you could get it in front of the right people, many would impulse purchase it
Did u see the “tech glitch” discussion in kdp community? Apparently thousands of no/low content are in queue to be published and this is happening to newer publishers. Kdp aren’t meant to be oversaturated with journals and notebooks so they are pushed at the back of the line.
Thanks for the video. Presentation of information very good and easy to follow. One thing I would like to know- when we save the image in either png or jpg, the saved image is highly pixellated. How to avoid it? Can you please help me?
It’s very similar. If you’re familiar with Adobe Illustrator you should be able to follow the exact steps. The only difference is the buttons and tabs are in different places.
love the content, really helpful. just a question is there a way to edit the description for your book after it's been published. I've only been at this for a week and am making a few silly mistakes, mostly i think from rushing thru the actual publishing setup. Any help would be much appreciated Cheers
How would you do your settings on PowerPoint to fit the template of kdp? I’ve worked directly on kdp templates to write workbooks and I noticed that the margins in the right and left pages are different. How do you set the margins when not using kdp templates?
Please I have a question ? I want to create my own book and interior on amozon Kdp , a coloring book I have my own sketch they don’t look like fine lines and so cuz I use dry ink brush to draw on procreate but they look create as some coloring pages . My question here can put these , knowing that I used some reference to draw some . And is it okey to create a coloring book using my own drawings and if Amazon asked me about the lisence of my owns sketches how can provide one. Thanks in advance
Hi. The way I understand it - if you're copying or outlining someone elses image or photograph then you don't own the copyright unless the reference image is copyright free or you have the commercial license to use it.
Thank you so much i just wanna clarify some points here .Actually i’ m not copying them . I’m drawing them my own way . So it is the same thing here but as you said i’m using some photographs to get inspired.And in some of my drawings i use some cuptures from some videos they are not even photographs or images in this case too , is it okey or not and how can i know that the photo reference is copyrighted free
I thought about it too, there are several ways to go about this :D but I draw the interiors myself so I don't need to remove colors or anything like that. Was just curious to see the video :D
I am currently using the picture download from the web and i am published around 3 4 book is there any issue i faced in future solve my issue i am from india and i am regularly watching your videos 2. Is it issue for me
Hello Paul. I love watching your tutorials and learn so much from them. However, this one has me stumped! I followed all of the steps as you did them, but when I get to the stroke stage in Affinity designer the image doesn't come through. Am I missing something? Thanks.
Quick question- Are you importing these pages in PNG or JPEG... or PDF? I have images in both PNG and JPEG (same images) and I wonder if makes any difference which one I use. I'd like to delete one or the other... memory is getting full. :-)
Hey Paul, Really enjoy your channel. Im about to publish my first book on KDP. Its a coloring book. It was created jointly with Fiver with full commercial rights. Do I need to copyright?
Hello sir, I want to publish no content book in kdp. Do we need to get copyright for the cover designed or how to know if that design is already copyrighted…? @Paul
HI PAUL, my book was approved in the same email they said I had to link my book via my bookshelf this is not working are you familiar with this process?
Paul Marles my mistake it was automated message from Amazon on the assumption I had multiple books which I may want to link however I only had one book so therefore there was no need to link anything they weren’t very specific so it was very confusing but I figured it out eventually LOVE YOUR VIDEOS!
@@financialadvisor2035 cursive hand writing shouldn't be much of a problem. As for the colouring book I'd suggest to mix the interioir with several other templates and mix it all together so you dont have the same order like other people
I recently made a book using an image from Raw Pixel. Before I submitted the book I sent an email to Raw Pixel to ask if I could use the image. They replied, saying "create away". I also downloaded the artist's bio which gave the date of death and the Creative Commons text. My submission was flagged by KDP and I was able to provide the necessary authentication and my book was published.
That's good to know. Well done for keeping that information and thank you for sharing.
Just a note to let you know that I watch almost all your videos. Not only do you present good information without a lot of fluff, but you have a personal style and presence that's quite relatable. At least, I find it so. Thanks for your work.
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Thank you. 🙏
I agree 🙏🏾
I wish he talked about selling content books as well.
Great instructions
Paul Marles is a living legend. I am happy you always share vital tips to us. Thanks Sir.
Very kind of you to say.
With the help of your videos, I have finally published several coloring books on Amazon!
That's nice! Have you used free art or commissioned someone? perhaps made the art yourself? I am curious to see your books!
I have published two coloring books myself with original art I drew myself :D
@@MariJadeWrites I haven't sold any yet, mostly just my notebooks are selling.
@@jazeldarae my notebooks are the ones that sell a bit too and I sold one coloring book myself. Just curious to see your coloring book, could you link it? 😊 I can link mine too if you want to check it out 😉
@@MariJadeWrites we can't link it, those kinds of comments aren't allowed. But, I'll tell you where I get my interiors. I get them from creative fabrica mostly
@@jazeldarae Oh okay. I see, I create my interiors myself. Can you tell me your pen name on KDP then? I want to see your coloring book(s) :D
I am making a third coloring book, I am about to publish it in the next couple of days, about to finish the last piece of lineart for it :D I am drawing the illustrations myself, it's so fun. :) Thank you for an interesting video!
Congratulations, I'm glad for you and I wish you well. I would like to draw my own illustrations for coloring books too. I just have to look up how to get my art to my computer since I don't use an I pad...yet... : )
did you make any sales ???
@@leendz2023 I sold some lined notebooks, and sold one coloring book online. I ordered some author copies of my coloring books and sold those to friends and family, so I suppose that counts as sales too, those were about 30. ☺️
@@KarenAllisonrc you can probably scan it with a printer
@@MariJadeWrites which software do you use to create your own illustrations
Awesome Paul, thanks, especially for your style. I can't stop watching you, I feel like I' m on Netflix , can not stop the "next episode" from auto play.....:)
Thank you!
How to keep it, make it and grow it, and that's your money am talking about. This intro is lit
Never in my life, have I Heard anyone say it as "Van Goff" It's "Van Go" The G and the H are silent. Anywho!
I Can't stop watching your videos, and bookmarking the sites you suggested!
You're gonna make my bookmarks congested! Thanks for making me addicted, while I Get inspired!!! 🥳🤪🤩😎
Erm, in the UK it’s Goff.
I was brushing my teeth this morning, and thinking 'hmmm how can I include real art like Monet into colouring books without having problems?". The I open UA-cam with my breakfast and see this as the first suggestion. More anxiety about UA-cam tracking my life, but also more gratitude to Paul for answering my 'prayers' 😁
I know, that happens to me as well and nobody believes me!! 😂 Glad the video found you!
I’m a beginner, ive been going through a lot of your videos and you’ve been so helpful❤️
Thank you. Glad you’ve found them useful. 👍
Thank you so much for your videos! You taught me how to make a notebook…I followed your easy, concise instructions and was very surprised! Thank you so much 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Sorry ignore my question, I decided not to be lazy and found the answer myself,
to any others out there the answer is Yes but not before the publishing process has been completed. By the way i find your content very inspiring Thanks
Thank you 👍
I just happened upon your channel about a week ago, and I am VERY impressed and eating up every bit of it that I can! I've published 6 journals and another low content notebook and I am chomping at the bit to make more. Love your content and very very appreciative of your videos. It shows that you were a trainer before because you have a natural knack for it.
I do want to say on a side note that you remind me very much of an actor I saw in Doc Martin, John Alderton, in the show title "Of All The Harbours In All The Towns". He's a captain!
Anyways, thanks again and I'll be around to watch all of your stuff!!
Thank you. Much appreciated. 👍
Just in case someone hasn't told you recently, you are awesome.
Thank you!
Thanks Paul, i would love to see some tutorials on the software you use. You are an excellent presenter!
Such an excellent video,thank you! I enjoyed the designing advice. If you could, I'd love for you to do a tutorial on how to convert an imperfect hand drawn line drawing into a digital format with smoothed and perfected lines that can be used for colouring books etc.
YES PLEASE!!!
Thank you for yet another great video Paul! There’s a goldmine of information in every single video that you do!
Thank you. Glad you find them useful.
Just stumbled on your channel. Thank you so much for these videos! They are so informative and helpful. I'm a stay at home mom trying to earn my own money at home and I am going to try making coloring books and journals to sell on Amazon.
You're welcome. I'm glad you've found the content useful.
This is gold, especially for someone ancient who knows nothing about file types, 🧐🙂
Glad you find it useful. 👍
Love it! I'm watching most of your videos, and I don't even have a KDP account... 😅
This is funny 😁
😆 Thank you.
Wonderful!
I’m in on this
The best teacher !!
Thank you!
🙇♀️😂😂 I’m an artist and thank you 🎉🎉 I never thought about using my own art work and turn them into a coloring book 🤣🤣🤣
Go for it! If you can create the interiors yourself you are at a big advantage.
@@paulmarles Thank You, and I am going to go for gold… plus love all your information , sometimes that part of my brain just misfires 😂.. thanks for keeping me in check… and just keep saying Amazon 🤣💗 I love it…. As well as niche 🎉🎉
Pretty genius content Paul ! Love that game, thank you so much !
You're welcome.
Wonderful video. So clear and concise. It has reignited my love of art 🙏🏻👍🏻
Thank you. Glad it has inspired you.
Thank you sir, I have learned a lot pls keep it coming🖤😊
You’re welcome.
wow 🤩 thanks for sharing these tutorials 👍🏻😊
My pleasure 😊
This is a great tip for Affinity Designer. Thank you!
Your videos are so great...would be absolutely wonderful if you could put all those websites you are using in the description as well...that would save your viewers from searching the video again. Thank you very much 🌹💚
Wow here so quickly not trying to miss your videos
Great vid! Bonus material: impression of publishing professionals. :} One thing I came across re open licensing. An image might be in public domain but some commercial sites take the image and 'enhance' it. Meaning they change some characteristics of the image, at that point it is their own copyright and no longer in public domain unless they expressly give permission. However the image might be available on another site, like your example of the Met Museum's site that lists free, open licensing, and that image, because not altered by some imaging software and by specific permission of the Met is free to use commercially. Of course it's good to research because even the Met could be wrong, I suppose. Seems to me the commercial for-profit photo sites are always a risky gamble.
Yes, always good to do a bit of research just to make sure.
You never disappoint, Paul! Thank you so much for your videos. Could you also use these images on the cover of notebooks/journals?
Yes, you could. Would make for good covers.
Thank you SO much!
You're welcome. Thank you for watching.
thanks ☝🙃
I had a handful of coloring books on KDP a few years ago but took them down and deleted all my files after they went a year with no sales. Getting back into it on faith-based themes as it seems that Christian coloring books have low competition and I can advertise them on my own website. Working on a horses coloring book right now.
Best of luck with your new plans. 👍
@@paulmarles Thanks! Uploaded my first journal yesterday! I'll publish it after I see the proof.
Thanks for all of your videos, I’m a regular viewer and find your videos the easiest to understand and follow, so thank you again. I am curious about one aspect of keywords that after watching all of your videos I’m still unclear. Theoretically speaking, do you need to use the full short tail/long tail keyword phrases when filling in your keywords? For example, do you need to repeatedly put “gifts for mom, gifts for friends, gifts for dad, gifts for…” each time you intend to use that type of keyword or is having “gifts for…” once allow you to just add the other keywords to follow such as, “gifts for mom dad friends coworkers…” etc? So so you have to put the phrase together to be indexed or do they index by combining all the individual words and piece them together? I hope that question is clear. Thank you!!
I don’t know but I’ve heard AMZ frowns on using gifts at all in the tee shirt sales at least.
This video explains how I fill out my 7 keyword boxes: ua-cam.com/video/Tqr0A9QP8Yo/v-deo.html
Thank you very much 😊Moroccan🇲🇦 living in Italy 🇮🇹
great
You're welcome.
Thanks so much for sharing!
You're welcome. 👍
Thanks for working for progress in my money 🤠
You're welcome.
Hey Paul, I had a question or suggestion for a video....do you have a plan for Q4? I see so many videos out there of KDP low-content authors who are disclosing their plan of attack for Q4. Do you have a plan or schedule or routine that you follow that would be helpful for the rest of us? I am creating books and following your wonderful advice. But I'm not cranking out a 100 at a time. With my niche research I'm making sure that my books have good quality content that people will want to buy. Is there an amount of books that you suggest I should be creating at this time? I'm also doing keyword research, but I haven't gotten a sale yet. I started November 2020, but I was just wondering if you have a routine that you follow in Q4 to get the most out of this profitable time for KDP authors. Love your videos and all your suggestions.
I don’t have a specific routine. I target books that are given more as gifts and look at Halloween and Christmas themed books.
Hi Paul! Love your videos. Do you know how I would do this in Photopea? I was trying to follow along but using Photopea and I didn't see a Stroke tab, so I'm stuck. I've downloaded Inkscape, but I haven't gotten used to it yet. Maybe I'll try there.
I’m afraid I’ve never used photopea. Have you tried googling or searching on UA-cam?
Thank you! 👍😊🇭🇺
You're welcome.
I was wondering about making the postcard style color books. I personally love them. Any pointers?
That's not an option on KDP. So you would need to find an independent publisher that creates those types of books.
Thanks for sharing all these useful information Paul.
How many books do you publish per for low content book niche, i.e. 2-3 or 10-20+ with different covers?
Usually in the 2-3 range.
Thank you, Paul. Love the new information.
You’re welcome. 👍
Thank you so much paul 😙
You’re welcome. 👍
Can you make a video on how much of a passive income KDP NC/LC is after you've quit the business. Would be interesting to know if books will make organic sales after 5, 10 or more years!
Indon't think he has been doing KDP for 10 years, or even 5. And passive income would depend completely upon how well everything was selling when you stopped doing KDP but that could easily change at anytime if things change as to what is popular as far as themes go, colors, etc.
I haven't quit the business!
@@paulmarles sorry it was meant as a theoretical question. Grammar mistake
Thank you very much 💕🥰💕🥰💕🥰
You're welcome.
Your funny! That's nonsense! 😆 Thanks for the great video as usual!
You're welcome.
Thank you! Your videos are very helpful.
You’re welcome.
Love your videos. Great job.
One question: can I make colouring books' interiors on my own?
Yes, you can.
Always cool. Thx
Great video like always! I have a question about copyright and coloring books. I've noticed so many Disney, Horror and Cartoon coloring books that use copyright characters seamlessly without any consequence. Coloring Book Cafe just put out a book called Classic Horror Coloring Book filled with copyright movie horror characters. Can you possibly make a video explaining how they are allowed to get away with it? Maybe characters in black/white aren't in violation of copyright? Thanks a lot.
If they don't have a license then they are not getting away with it as such, they are just lucky.... for the moment. But risk legal action etc.
@@paulmarles Thanks for the reply sir. I'm still curious about the gray line involving parody and copyright characters. For example this trading card company has been putting out cards called "Garbage Pail Kids" and always draws movie character in a cartoonish/doll way and they have been doing it since the 80's. I'm assuming if I make a cute/kawaii horror coloring book and don't reference their names I should be fine? Thanks.
Can anyone recommend a tutorial for doing the line art in Inkacape? Or maybe Paul can do one.
Thank you for the video. Great content!
I think I'll attempt my first coloring book soon!
Yes, I too would be interested to learn this new software!!
Paul has one. Search his name and see all his videos. You will see it.
@@patnichol1275 Thank you!
I wonder... Would there be a market for a coloring book of Renaissance butts? Because I really think that while very few people would search for that specifically, if you could get it in front of the right people, many would impulse purchase it
Sounds like a great idea!
Publishing books on kdp is awesome, but my goodness waiting for them to get published can take forever!!! I have 6 still publishing.
It takes exactly 5 days for each one for me. Kinda weird as it's exactly 5 days. always. How long do you have to wait?
@@CreativePublisher its been 3 weeks, but I submitted one after these and it was approved in 2 days.
Mine take like three days
@@perxian1893 ughhh! Thats awesome. I wish there was an option to delete and reupload to see if that makes a difference.
Did u see the “tech glitch” discussion in kdp community? Apparently thousands of no/low content are in queue to be published and this is happening to newer publishers. Kdp aren’t meant to be oversaturated with journals and notebooks so they are pushed at the back of the line.
Thanks for the video. Presentation of information very good and easy to follow. One thing I would like to know- when we save the image in either png or jpg, the saved image is highly pixellated. How to avoid it? Can you please help me?
That doesn't happen if you use vectors and go through the process I show you.
@@paulmarles I am using vectors, but still, the problem persists.
Awesome video. Thank you. Would this process work on say, my own photographs?
You could try. It may do. It depends on the contrast really.
how do you do this in adobe illustrator
It’s very similar. If you’re familiar with Adobe Illustrator you should be able to follow the exact steps. The only difference is the buttons and tabs are in different places.
@@paulmarles thanks
Vectornator can now auto-trace raster to vector.
Good to know.
love the content, really helpful.
just a question is there a way to edit the description for your book after it's been published.
I've only been at this for a week and am making a few silly mistakes, mostly i think
from rushing thru the actual publishing setup.
Any help would be much appreciated Cheers
Yes, just go in and edit it and re-publish.
you are the best
Thank you 🙏
Nice one Sir thank you so much
You're welcome. Thank you too for watching.
thank you!
You're welcome.
How would you do your settings on PowerPoint to fit the template of kdp? I’ve worked directly on kdp templates to write workbooks and I noticed that the margins in the right and left pages are different. How do you set the margins when not using kdp templates?
You can still use the templates in powerpoint. I use the free templates I give away in my Gumroad shop for the margins.
Can a customer paint using watercolors on amazons self published KDP that we upload as coloring books? Thanks!
The paper is probably not suitable for watercolor paints.
Hi Paul, I found a good image but after doing a reverse search, I found it on Alamy, Shutterstock and Etsy, do you think I should use it or not?
Please I have a question ? I want to create my own book and interior on amozon Kdp , a coloring book I have my own sketch they don’t look like fine lines and so cuz I use dry ink brush to draw on procreate but they look create as some coloring pages . My question here can put these , knowing that I used some reference to draw some . And is it okey to create a coloring book using my own drawings and if Amazon asked me about the lisence of my owns sketches how can provide one. Thanks in advance
Hi. The way I understand it - if you're copying or outlining someone elses image or photograph then you don't own the copyright unless the reference image is copyright free or you have the commercial license to use it.
Thank you so much i just wanna clarify some points here .Actually i’ m not copying them . I’m drawing them my own way . So it is the same thing here but as you said i’m using some photographs to get inspired.And in some of my drawings i use some cuptures from some videos they are not even photographs or images in this case too , is it okey or not and how can i know that the photo reference is copyrighted free
Thank you for your videos, how do find the kdp paper quality. Is it good enough for some different mediums, like gauche or h2o colors?
I don't think the paper woould be thick enough for those, unfortunately.
@@paulmarles Thank you
I WAS looking for HOW TO ADD BLANK PAGES so colorers would not bleed through. This video did not answer my question. Gezz.
Why not remove the colours and increase the contrast in Gimp or Photoshop?
I thought about it too, there are several ways to go about this :D but I draw the interiors myself so I don't need to remove colors or anything like that. Was just curious to see the video :D
Illustrator has an image trace function, it will redraw any image within seconds
Edit: Holy sh*t I didn't know he was gonna mention it
That sounds easier. I'll remember that.
Very interesting video
Thank you.
Please how can I add 0.125 to my book width and 0.25 to the hight
You create a file in the correct size. So, instead of a file 8.5 x 11" it would be 8.625 x 11.25"
I am currently using the picture download from the web and i am published around 3 4 book is there any issue i faced in future solve my issue i am from india and i am regularly watching your videos
2. Is it issue for me
Is it anything wrong to put a sign with copyright inside of these coloring books made with images from Public Domain website ?
What exactly are you copyrighting?
Hello Paul. I love watching your tutorials and learn so much from them. However, this one has me stumped! I followed all of the steps as you did them, but when I get to the stroke stage in Affinity designer the image doesn't come through. Am I missing something? Thanks.
It's difficult to tell without knowing all the steps you;ve taken up until that point. Did you set the stroke to black?
May I ask how often you use the keyword 'gift' in your title or subtitle? Or do you only put it in the 7 keyword brackets?
I tend to only put it in the 7 keyword boxes.
@@paulmarles Thank you!
What are the dimensions you use for the paperback cover?
8.5x11"
awesome video as usual paul!
can one create a coloring book names like van gouh?
That should be ok.
as an artist let me tell you that there is a brand called van gough that makes brushes for painting. idk if that may become an copyright issue
Quick question- Are you importing these pages in PNG or JPEG... or PDF? I have images in both PNG and JPEG (same images) and I wonder if makes any difference which one I use. I'd like to delete one or the other... memory is getting full. :-)
Importing to where? Vectoriser? If so .jpg or .png to convert to raster images.
@@paulmarles Thanks.
Hey Paul, Really enjoy your channel. Im about to publish my first book on KDP. Its a coloring book. It was created jointly with Fiver with full commercial rights. Do I need to copyright?
You automatically own the copyright to any original works you create.
My affinity designer screen doesn't look anything like yours. Let me run around youtube and find out how to use this program
Care este softul pe care faceți tutorialul?Cum se traduce in 41 de limbi de circulație?
Thank you
for some reason, KDP is not showing the inside of my journals.
It takes time to appear but Amazon has bern having technical difficulties with it.
excellent video
Hello sir, I want to publish no content book in kdp. Do we need to get copyright for the cover designed or how to know if that design is already copyrighted…? @Paul
You don’t need to get copyright but you need to make sure you have the license to use the graphics on your cover.
HI PAUL, my book was approved in the same email they said I had to link my book via my bookshelf this is not working are you familiar with this process?
I’ve not heard of that. Are you talking about Amazon author central?
Paul Marles my mistake it was automated message from Amazon on the assumption I had multiple books which I may want to link however I only had one book so therefore there was no need to link anything they weren’t very specific so it was very confusing but I figured it out eventually LOVE YOUR VIDEOS!
Can we use freepik pic for colouring book ??
How do you rin a picture through Google images?
Go to Google image search, click on images and upload b
Thanks from Morocco
You're welcome.
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and it's fine using famous paintings?
Hello Paul, I purchased a colouring and cursive hand writing book from Creative Fabrica. Will Amazon KDP accept if I upload as it is? Kindly advise.
I have no idea. It might be a problem if you’re using as is and it’s already been uploaded by another publisher.
@@paulmarles Thanks Paul for quick reply. Is it possible for you to give some input how to ammend a bit before I upload?
@@financialadvisor2035 cursive hand writing shouldn't be much of a problem. As for the colouring book I'd suggest to mix the interioir with several other templates and mix it all together so you dont have the same order like other people
@@CreativePublisher Thanks for advise
I always though creating colouring book means to be good at drawing. DRAWING, not using ready images. Something is wrong with me???
I have doodles I've created and want to us them in a coloring book
Can someone tell me why we should insert a blank page between each page please?
Because some pens can bleed through the paper to the other side.
good vido
Thank you.
thanks
You're welcome!
Can i to do this with gimp? Thank you so much
No. You need to use vector editing software. A free software would be Inkscape.
@@paulmarles thank you paul! 🙏👍
@@paulmarles i look another your video for inkscape! 🙋♀️