Create Unlimited KDP Coloring Book Images Using FREE Photographs

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.

🛠️ Tools and Resources I use:

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.

[clav]

This is THE CHANNEL FOR KDP ... there's no other channel explain it better! Thanks Paul

[jessicajordan]

I am constantly amazed by how creative technology can be. Thank you for the instruction Paul!

[soundstosleepby]

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.

[BoomlandJenkins]

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.

[ladyhawk]

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 !👍

[lucychizube]

I bless the day I came across your videos Paul. Thank you very much ❤️

[johnbywaters]

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 .

[JustMamo]

Wow! This is such a useful technique! Thanks so much Paul! 👐

[youniqa]

Thanks to you l realize l have illustrator 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️ l learn a lot already from you in one hr 😮😊 thank you!

[yourinnerartistwithjulie-j]

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 ;)

[daniilverlan]

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😁

[kathyyoungblood]

So glad I found your channel, you are the best teacher, you know how to go step by step in your instructions. Thank you!

[theresakidd]

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.

[MissMolly]

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.

[CarrieReagh]

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.

[bankbongx]

Thank you so much, love all of your clip . makes my ideas in digital artwork grow.

[loricroft]

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 YouTubers, but I chose you as a way of saying; Thanks, Paul :)

[mellowmoods]

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!

[RachelRamey]

You may have just changed my life pointing out that "smart mode" option to the pen tool.

[rimwpnizer]

AWESOMENESS PAUL! THANKS FOR YOUR HELP☝🍕❤🤩💥💯🙏