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If you're interested in selling high quality coloring pages to sell on Amazon,

KDP and other websites, then check out this video.

This video will include an easy step by step guide on researching your coloring

book, then the coloring book creation using an AI software, creating your

interior and cover, and then finally uploads it into Amazon KDP.

When creating a book I always like to do the initial research on Amazon rather

than using any paid tools, so the free tools that I do like to use in.

Help a lot.

The 1st is AMZ Suggestion Expander.

It's just going to give you a lot more keywords when you're using the search bar

for more ideas.

The second tool is by self-publishing

Titans and it's a BSR and keyword research tool.

So it's going to give you a top extension bar with a lot of useful information

summarizing things and then a single product.

Information bar as well, and this is going to provide you with useful

information on each specific book.

Now we're going to use the search bar for

our research as it shows us what people are searching for.

So if we type in coloring books, you can see all the keywords that you're provided

with. So the benefit of the AMZ expander tool

is that it's going to give you keywords before, so you can see the grid

highlighted in red and there's another grid highlighted in green for keywords

after. So you're getting so much more keywords.

And you can just take a look and select what sounds interesting.

So we'll go with the coloring books for adults relaxation.

Now you can see that it's got over 30000 thousand results which is quite

competitive. But the benefit of the self-publishing

Titans BSR and keyword SEO tool is that it summarizes all the key information

that you would need to know.

So for example, it gives you a keyword

niche score. Anything with a keyword niche score of 60

or above is ideal.

Then it also summarizes the total results

of all the book the best.

Tellers rank the reviews and the prices

of all the books.

Now this is quite competitive and the

results are too many, so we do again want to niche down again using the search bar.

So we can just take a look at some of the keywords that I suggest in and you can

click on any that may interest you.

So in this instance, we're going to go

with Owls. And you can already see the number of

results have significantly reduced to only 5000 So we're competing with a lot

less books. 22 books on this page and twelve of these

are independently published.

So there is some chance of if your book

is good then it appearing on the first page, then we can see that the average

BSR is over 300,000 thousand don't get hung up on that number too much.

Too many people focus on finding the perfect a low BSR when a collection of

books with a BSR of 300,000 thousand is still going to make you money.

Now we can take a look at the books we'll be competing with.

So just scrolling down, the first two are sponsored and not related to this niche

and this book here is a large print.

Our coloring book and if we take a look

at the box of information above it provided by self-publishing Titans, we

can see that it has a BSR 500,000 thousand and it was created in August

2022 And I do like the colorful cover.

The next book has a BSR of 226,000

thousand i'm not that too impressed by the cover.

The book after has an impressive BSR of 36,000 thousand very low.

And we'll quickly take a look at another book with a BSR of over 1000000 but it

does have a lot of reviews, so I can imagine that does well around Christmas

time, followed by another book with a BSR of over 280,000 thousand released in 2015

So there's not too many recent books within this niche and there is a massive

demand. But just understand that if you were to

create a book, then you're not going to get a huge amount of sales.

But if you can find 5 or 10 similar niches, then you can still make good

money. Let's just take a look inside one.

These coloring books to understand the process of creating one of these.

So we can see on the first page we have this book belongs to followed by a color

testing page and then we've got the owl image.

The next page is then blank, followed by an owl image and then the next page is

blank. And the reason why the second page is

always blank is because Amazon's pages are quite thin and you don't want the

coloring to leak on to the next page.

Now to create our coloring pages we're

going to be using Mid Journey and Mid Journey is a text to image air generator

that will blow your mind and to access Mid Journey you need to sign up to is

scored and this is just an online instant messaging platform where you can build

communities and once you've signed up to then you can sign in.

I'll show you some of the images I've created using Mid Journey and you can see

the first three are related to the beach and the seaside.

Then I've tried to do a few coloring pages just based on.

Portraits then after that I've tried a few mandala coloring pages which have

come out really good as well.

And then following that I've also been

trying to create animal coloring pages for kids.

And I'm really impressed by the quality and the speed in which Mid Journey is

able to produce these images.

All you need to do is simply type in a

prompt for this one up at Coloring Page for Kids.

Small cute lion, clean lineup, no background, and with a few minor

adjustments it created this and I'll show you how to do so.

Once you've joined the official Mid Journey Discord, it can look quite

confusing with a lot of different things going on.

But in order to start creating our own image, we need to go to one of the newbie

rooms. So you can choose any of the rooms in

order to start creating your own image.

If you want further information on

getting started, there's also a section on getting started there.

You've also got an FAQ section and it's important that you know the rules in

order to get started with Mid Journey so.

If you are a free user, you get 25

prompts. However, if you are a free user, you do

only have a noncommercial license and you can click the link and you can Scroll

down to read further about that a little bit more.

And as you can see here, noncommercial means not primary, intended or directed

towards commercial advantage or monetary compensation.

If you would like to purchase a subscription for commercial use, you need

to click on Trial Support, then press forward slash subscribe and click if the

option comes up.

Then just give it a moment and click open

subscription page and then you'll be taken to where you'll see a few of these

subscription options. So I've gone with the 10$ a month as I've

used up the free version but you are limited to 200 generations each month.

I will go up to the 30$ a month as there's a lot more benefits but just be

aware whatever you create is a public and if you wanted to have your own private

bot then it is an extra 25$ on top each month.

Now to start creating your designs, if you're in the free plan then you need to

come down to one of the newcomer rooms and then start typing.

However, you'll see that it can be quite chaotic in these rooms as all the

newcomers will be creating their designs in there.

But if you are paying for the basic subscription then you will get your own

personal bot which I prefer using.

Now in order to start creating our

designs we need to make sure the settings are right so you can just type in forward

slash. Settings and then enter and then it'll

come U with where you can adjust your settings O The first setting I like to

have it on is MJ version 4 which is Midjourney version four, the most utodate

and advanced version.

Then Niji mode is just an anime version

of Mid Journey if you want to try that.

Now there are different types of quality

settings and these just influence the quality of image that you get back.

So with the free or 10 subscription I would only recommend the base quality as

you won't use so much of your credits up.

But the 30 subscription is unlimited so

you can go with the high quality.

In terms of style, this just gives Mid

Journey the ability to stay closer to your prompt than I usually.

Leave it on style medium, you've got three different.

Options to upscale.

So beta upscale is more detailed, Light

upscale is a lot less detailed and I usually have it on regular upscale.

Public mode would allow anyone to see what you're creating, while private mode

you have to pay an extra 25$ so fast mode creates images much faster but uses a lot

more capacity as you only have a limited amount of fast hours and then relax mode

takes a lot longer but you won't use as much capacity.

So if you are using mid Journey a lot then I'd recommend relax mode, but if you

are using it just every once in a.

While then you can stick with fast mode,

but test out different settings and don't be afraid to find the best ones for you.

Now to start creating your design, just go to the bottom and put in forward

slash. Imagine then you're going to have prompt

come up and then you just need to start thinking about who your coloring book is

going to be for, what design you're going to have, and what style you're going to

have. O for this We already know that we're

creating coloring books for adults.

Based on the research we've done on

Amazon, That's going to be an owl.

We want clean line art, and we're going

to have mandala design.

And I usually like to create my coloring

books size 8 5 by 11.

So in order to have it fit that size

you're going to need to do aspect or ratio 2 by 3.

Then you can just click enter and it usually takes about a minute to create

the design. But to save time I have speed it up and

we can just see the detail and high quality these coloring pages are and that

all these designs were created in under a minute.

It's absolutely outstanding.

If we take a look at the largest owl you

can see by its claws it's got too many so it doesn't.

Always produce the perfect designs and it can sometimes show a few odd things, but

AI will only get better.

So there's a few things that we can do

with these designs, and one is to upscale.

And this is just to enlarge the image without any loss in quality.

So each image is numbered, so you've got one two three and four.

You've got the option to rerun the prompt.

If you're not happy with the designs that it's come out with, then you've also got

the option or variation.

So if there's any particular design that

you do like, then you can create four more variations of that design.

So in this instance, we're going to go with variation 3 and this will create 4

variations of design number three.

Now our four variations have been

completed. Then we can just click on them and

compare. Now although all these designs are highly

detailed, they are quite similar and I don't want my coloring page is to be

quite boring. So another feature that can use to add

your own variation is called Remix and you can find this in the settings and

just make sure you put a forward slash before this in order to access the

settings and make sure you click remix mode.

And this amazing setting actually uses a text box that will allow you to.

Adjust your variation based on your prompt.

So this time when we click on variation one you'll see this text box come up and

it will allow us to type some words.

So I've chosen Mandala background as I'm

happy with the design but I just want something a bit more creative and it's

going to be interesting to color in.

And once these have uploaded you can just

click on the image to see the designs.

And I'm a lot more pleased with these.

We can see that it has included the mandala design on the background flowers

and on the owl.

Also, I think they look a lot more

interesting rather than the previous variations that we created.

Before you take a look at image 3, you can see that the feathers have gone

everywhere and that sometimes does happen with a I as we talked about before.

It's not perfect, but it will get better now once we know that we are happy with

images 1. Two and four.

We can upscale them in order to create enlarged versions for our coloring book.

It can take a bit longer than a minute to upscale, but once this is done then we

can scroll through the images and make sure that we're happy with everything

that we see.

You can click on them and take a look

through each picture individually.

I'm just going to use 3 examples for this

video, but just make sure that you add a lot more.

Coloring pages using the steps I've shown in this video.

In order to save this as a PNG you just need to click web and then Yep and then

you'll be shown your image again and you just need to click save with prompt and

soon as you click that then it will save it as a PNG which you can upload to any

software to start creating your coloring book.

Now you can click the home option and then upscale and it's going to show you

your other. Upscaled designs and you just click the

three dots and then you can click save image again and then you'll also have

your PNG files for your coloring book.

So just before starting your interior for

your coloring book, you might just want to make sure that the image quality is

good enough and we can see here that we've got.

One oh two four by one five three six, and this is more than good enough for the

85 by 11 coloring book that we're going to create and Justice make sure that you

save that and download it as a PNG.

Now in order to create your coloring

book, just use a software that you're most familiar with.

I always suggest canvas as it's really easy and free for anybody to use.

So just make sure that we get our sizes right.

So we're going 8 5 by 11 and all you need to do is click create design to start

creating your coloring book.

Just use the first page as this belongs

to and then second page will be blank third page.

Then you can start adding your designs in.

And this just follows the exact same structure as the Owl coloring book we

looked at earlier on in the video.

So just make sure that you have your

design followed by a blank page to prevent bleed through and then you just

repeat that format throughout the coloring book.

Now if you want to create a similar design, all you have to do is go to the

elements and type in Mandala into the search bar.

And then click enter and then you'll be showing designs.

Avoid any with the crown if you don't have the Canva Pro subscription, and then

you can go to the text in order to find a similar text.

The good thing is Canva shows complementary text styles.

And then in order to just create the line then all you can do is go to lines and

shapes and you can find the line there.

Now to add a blank page all you need to

do is click in the right hand corner to add another page.

And to start adding your coloring pages that you created on mid journey you just

need to upload them first of all.

Then align it to the page properly and

add a border around it so that customers will not color in outside of the

boundaries. So to give you a quick demonstration of

how I did this, just make sure you go to uploads, click on the image you want to

use, then you can double click on the image in order to crop any bits out.

So I just want to crop out those areas that you're not able to color in.

And once you've done that, just click the background and then you can align it to

the pink purple outline.

That will keep it within the bleed.

Then in order to create the border you can go to elements and then you can.

Just simply type in Square outline Or you can just find an outline in the lines and

shapes section.

But as I've already used a previous

outline in the other coloring page, I'll just copy and paste that onto this.

Then all you need to do is keep on repeating the process.

I advise that you have at least 20 pages within coloring book and this will end up

being over 40 pages in total due to the blank pages as well.

Now to download it, make sure you go to share, click download.

Make sure that.

The file type is a PDF print and that you

also use CMYK best for professional printing.

Click that and if you are using a free account you will have to try Canva Pro

free for 30 days but you can cancel at any time.

Now to get started with your cover and get the correct dimensions make sure you

go to kdp.

amazon.com cover calculator and you can

put in your book information and then it's going to give you the dimensions

that you need to create your cover.

And then you can go to whatever software

that you like to use in order to create covers.

In this instance we use in Canvern.

You can put those dimensions in and it's

going to create your cover page for you.

Now for our cover design, we can go back

to mid journey and you can see the prompt that I've used here.

I've taken out coloring page for adults and I've just put in our multi color

sitting on branch because I wanted it to replicate the coloring page style and

then I upscaled a design I was happy with.

And then in order to download it, you just click web and then you can go down.

Make sure you're happy with everything, check the resolution and then make sure

you click save and then you can go back to your Canva page and make sure you

upload it. And once it's uploaded, all you need to

do is click on it and then make sure that you've got it on one side of the page.

Make sure it's always on the right hand side and then you just make sure that it

fits the page properly.

Then the next part is for the Backpage.

We want it to be the exact same color as the front page.

So all we need to do is go to the colors, then there's a color picker tool.

Then you just hover over that color and then it's going to make the background

exactly the same color.

So the Backpage is going to be identical

to the front page.

Now what we want to do is add some text.

So find an interesting text that will be look great on the cover and that is U to

you but go through Amazon and take a look at other fonts that have been used.

And it is a little bit difficult to see the font.

So what you can do is add a square to the background in order to make it stand out

a little bit more.

So we're just going to quickly change

that to black.

And then you can just put that behind the

title in order to make it stand out a little bit more and then just make sure

that we get the measurements right and just bring that in a little bit.

Another thing you can do if maybe you don't like that too much, is just fade

it. Into the background a little bit so we

can still see our art design in the background and I think that has a nice

effect. Now we want to make the Backpage look a

bit more interesting.

You can add coloring pages from your

interior, just download them as a PNG and then place them on your back cover, just

so that the customer gets an idea of what the interior pages look like and just

make sure that everything is aligned properly.

Then you might want to add some text and you don't really need to go overboard

with. This you can just simply explain what is

contained within the book and align it properly.

Then you just want to make sure that you give a name to your design at the top

just in case you've got a lot of files that you want to make it easy to find.

And then you can download it by clicking share, download.

Make sure that it's a PDF, print again, ideally CMYK and download.

We run to the final stage now and all this includes is uploading it to Amazon

and you're going to need to go to kdpamazon dot com and then you'll come to

this page and you just click the create button and make sure that it's a

paperback. Then you're going to need to put in your

book title and subtitle.

Just make sure the keywords are related

to what you want to rank for in Amazon.

Then you're going to put in your author

name and just make sure that is something unique.

Then the description.

You can use chat gpt you can click the i

o and the copyrights.

Then you need to fill in the keyword

section next and just make sure they're all keywords related.

Then categories and just make sure that you choose a category related to the

book. It's not a low content book and you can

read the description of what a low content book is there just repeated

content? Or does it include a large print font and

then there's no add up content.

Then you just click save and continue and

that's the first page done.

Now you can Click to get a free ISBN but

if you want to publish to other marketplaces you will need your own ISBN

and I always have the interior black and white.

We already know the size is 8 5 by 11.

It's going to be no bleed and I prefer my

coloring page covers glossy.

Then just upload the interior page and

then after that you need to upload the cover and once those have been uploaded

you can click launch previewer and then you can actually view the book.

It's showing us the cover, so just make sure everything fits within the red lines

and there's no issues detected, which is fantastic.

Then we can just take a look through the interior pages and just make sure

everything's fine, which it is and I'm happy with everything.

So then we can just go down below and click approve.

So we're happy with everything and then we can take a look at the printing costs

and then click save and continue.

Then we're onto the final page where

we're just setting the price of the book.

I always like to price my books

competitively. So I've just gone with six ninety nine

and then you can go to expanded distribution just to make a bit more as

well from bulk orders.

Then the rest of the prices in the other

marketplaces, I just like to round that to 99 to just get a little bit more than

you can just click.

Publish your paperback book if you're

happy with everything.