How to Create a Coloring Book for KDP with Ready-made Designs
Dealing low- content books on KDP has come one of the most dependable and easiest ways of making plutocrat online in recent times, and it’s safe to say that this is just the morning.
The KDP community has been around for times, but it was n’t until 2020 when saw a strong affluence of people experimenting with online businesses, a lot of which started trying their luck on Amazon’s tone-publishing platform.
Dealing on KDP sounds simple the platform allows publishers to publish all kinds of books, from novels, tonon-fiction books, and it also allows them to publish books with low-content, or indeed slightly any content at all!
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Creatures Coloring Book Cover
Exemplifications of low-content or no-content books are
Lined or dotted Journals
Progress trackers
Particular journals
Form book
Sketchbook
Coloring book
For further low-content book ideas, check out our 14 Low-content Book Ideas for KDP blog composition.
On this occasion we ’ll talk further about how to produce a Coloring Book with ready- made designs, since not everyone is a delineation master, and the content for coloring books are, well, delineations and illustrations to colorize.
Creating a coloring book is really easy if you have access to ready- made designs without filling, which substantially come in the form of transparent PNGs.
While there are lots of transparent PNGs available online, not all of them are certified to be used for marketable and Merch use, and in the case of coloring books, it’s veritably important that the style of the delineations is cohesive all throughout the book.
To bridge this problem, Vexels created ready- made sets of designs for coloring book innards, comprising knockouts of stroke no- filler designs in different styles, ready to be used on blank runners for coloring books of all feathers.
How to produce a Coloring Book for KDP using ready- made PNG designs step by step
There are a many ways to make a low-content book with online tools, all of which lead to the same end result.
To make a coloring book you'll need
An idea what's your book going to be about?
A book interior template (download KDP template from Amazon then)
A book cover design
A Google Drive account, or a software original to Google Docs (to make your book innards)
. A PSD-editing software like Adobe Photoshop or Photopea (to make your book cover)
What will your Coloring Book designs be about?
Coloring books are for all periods and interests, so it’s up to you to decide on the content your book is going to be about.
It’s important to suppose about them as exertion books, and to consider the numerous uses they've they can be hours of entertainment for kiddies and toddlers, as well as remedial conditioning for grown-ups. Stressed people can find peace while coloring as a aware exertion, and artists and pastel can also find alleviation and joy in giving life to blank objects.
Let’s equivocation a many exemplifications of coloring books
Coloring book for relaxation andde-stress
Coloring book for people with ADHD
Coloring exertion book for kiddies
ABC coloring book for kiddies
Remedy art book
Beast Coloring book
Flower & Shops Coloring book
Foodie Coloring book
Landscape Coloring Book
Another great source of alleviation for coloring book content is Vexels’ collection of ready- made design sets. Occasionally it’s easier to start with the content and work your way back to an idea that’s applicable to buyers.
Check Vexels Coloring Book Interior Designs Then
How to produce your coloring book innards
Choose & Download the interior template of the right size
Add it to Google Drive
Make a blank dupe (where you ’ll add coloring book designs)
Choose & Download coloring book designs
Open the blank template
Add a many introductory runner
Add coloring book designs per each runner
For stylish results, Amazon recommends using a formatted PDF train, but you can also upload a Croaker (. croaker), DOCX (. docx), HTML (. html), or RTF (. rtf) train.
In the train we linked you earlier to download, you ’ll find all handwriting templates for the available sizes KDP has to offer. Popular sizes are 6 ″ x 9 ″ (15.24 x22.86 cm) and8.5 ″ x 11 ″ (21.59 x27.94 cm).
For the sake of this tutorial, we will use Google Croakers to produce the interior, but there are numerous people who also use Google Slides to the same effect.
Once you ’ve named your preferred size, we will upload the handwriting of the chosen size to our Drive account. For this tutorial, we will use the8.5 ″ x 11 ″ (21.59 x27.94 cm) template.
Google Drive KDP8.5 x 11 inch handwriting template
Whenever you want to produce a new book, come to this brochure and make a dupe of the template of the size you want your book to be.
Produce a dupe of the KDP handwriting
Open the dupe and brand it to commodity related to your content. In our case, we ’ll use this lovely Flowers KDP coloring book design set.
Preview Flower Coloring Book
To start filling up your coloring book interior runners, we recommend you have a many runners at first as an preface. For illustration, you can add a runner to enter the proprietor’s name, and a nice welcome communication as well.
You could also go with the most simple option which isn't having any other content besides the coloring designs.
It’s good to remember that the first runner of your interior document will be the first runner the anthology/ proprietor sees, so make sure you use that bone first and move on with the rest. In other words odd runners will be on your right, indeed runners on your leftism.
For this book sample, we ’ll have
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Runner 1 Drink title
Runner 2 blank runner
Runner 3 “ This book belongs to”
Runner 4 blank runner
Runner 5 First design
And from then on, each runner will have one design to colorize.
Floral Coloring book title
This Book Belongs To
Adding ready- made designs to the book innards
Download coloring book design set
Add one design per runner
Make sure images have “ Underpinning Text” for stylish fit
Download the Flowers design set train and prize its contents to your brochure of choice.
Prize KDP plates
Among the contents, you ’ll find a brochure named PNG containing all the insulated flower design PNGs. Head over there, and from then we will start feeding our handwriting template, one design per runner.
Floral KDP plates
To add the designs, go to the runner you ’ll place your design, and drag and drop the design from the brochure onto the runner.
Once the image is placed, you ’ll need to acclimate it to stylish fit the runner.
To do this, click on the image and elect the Wrap textbook option. This will unleash the image’s range of stir and will help you resize it and duly center it on the runner.
Wrap textbook image
Make sure the image is n’t near the edges of the runner, this will make it delicate for the stoner to colorize duly. Use the guidelines to center the design duly.
Floral image placement
Reprise this process until you ’ve used all the images.
Do n’t worry, once you get the hang of it, you ’ll do it in no time!
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In this case, we're using all the 50 flower transparent PNGs.
At this point, our book is finished, and it’s 55 runners long.
How to make your coloring book cover design
Generate book cover template on Amazon
Download ready- made book cover design
Open blank book cover template
Insert ready- made book cover design on the blank template
Acclimate as necessary
Import as PDF
While it makes sense to have a book cover featuring the design style that’s current in your book interior, feel free to use different yet related styles for your book cover.
For stylish results, we recommend formatting your cover with Amazon’s template creator, where you ’ll input the number of runners your book has.
You can find the KDP book cover template creator then.
Our sample book has 55 runners, so we ’ll input that quantum, and hit‘Download cover template’. After that, prize the train to your original brochure.
Download book cover template
For the design of this book, we will use a ready- made cover we picked up from Vexels’ book cover collection.
Floral Coloring Book Cover Design
Download Floral coloring book cover design then
Open the Book Cover template you just downloaded on Photoshop, and produce a New Layer.
Drag and drop the Floral book cover you ’ve just downloaded that’s sized × 11, and resize it to stylish fit the original train.
Produce a New Layer
(As of 2021, Vexels ready- made book covers come in 4 popular sizes, for 100- runner books. That’s why this time we're resizing the design to stylish fit your affair train.)
Using the Blockish Marquee tool, make a cube that covers the aft cover textbook, and slide it overhead.
Marquee tool
Marquee Tool 2
Right-click on it, and elect Layer via Copy.
Subcaste via dupe
Also, with the Move tool, drag the subcaste you just created to cover the textbook. And there you have it!
Floral coloring book finished interpretation
To export your book cover, go to Train> Save As … and elect PDF as your train type.
Save as PDF
Now, your coloring book interior and your book cover are ready!
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Reprise and tweak these way as much as your business and interests need.
The power to make your book business thrive is all up to you.
At Vexels you can find all feathers of designs for your coloring book innards and coloring book covers.
Check our growing Coloring book interior set collection then
Find ready- made book cover designs then
Still, or if you have a cool idea, let us know and we ’ll make it for you! Our platoon of talented in- house contrivers is eager to make your design requests come to life and design the book you need, If you ca n’t find what you need.
Still, stay tuned for our forthcoming blog post about it!
, If you want to know further about how to upload your coloring books to KDP.
