This is going to be a really quick video to show you how to create a
cool looking coloring book cover. And it's a quick, an easy method,
which I think you'll like. Now briefly, if you've not been here before,
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So this is the kind of, we're going to be creating.
And you'll see these on a lot of books on Amazon,
where you've got half the page colored in,
and you've got sort of half or a portion of the page in black and white lines.
And this is a request I get quite often.
How to create this type of cover.
And it's actually a lot simpler than you think.
So we'll run through just creating one of these. So first of all,
I'm going to be using an image. This is going to be a public domain image,
and it's a William Morris image, and we're going to choose this one here.
Now I used this in my last video.
And what we need to do is convert this image,
which will be a raster image that's .png or .jpg into a
vector image. And this is important. So,
if you have not watched that video go and watch the video before this,
on how I converted a raster image into a vector image,
because you can't do what I'm about to show you without doing that.
I'm going to be doing this in Affinity Designer.
You should be able to do the equivalent in Adobe Illustrator or Inkscape
or a Gravit Designer, or I think probably even Vectornator.
But I'm going to be showing you in Affinity Designer today.
So I've downloaded this image.
I've already turned it into a vector image and I've dragged it across here
into Afinity Designer.
So what we need to do is just have our selection tool selected and then
holding down the left mouse key, just drag a bounding box,
around a portion of our image.
I'm just going to go about a third of the way down,
third to a half the way down like so.
Now you don't see any change there at the moment. So top right here,
we're going to make sure we've got the fill selected and we're going to move our
slider over to white.
And you can see half of our image has disappeared.
So now we want to outline those lines that are currently
invisible.
So we click on the stroke tab and now using the width slider,
just increase the width and look at that.
By magic the outline appears of those shapes.
And that's the beauty of using vectors.
You can't do this using raster images. I'll show you.
This is that image in a raster version. It's a,
I think it's a .jpg image. Again, select our selection tool.
Draw our bounding box, go to our color.
Selector, nothing happens.
So you can only do this using vector images.
And this is William Morris picture.
You could do this with virtually any vector image you have.
Now, I'll just do something quick to show you how good this looks.
We're going to click the rectangle tool,
draw a rectangle box on our front cover,
and we're going to have some rounded corners.
So just select rounded corner and adjust the radius of that
slightly.
And I'm going to enlarge this so it can see a bit better what's happening.
And I'm just going to increase the stroke thickness of this box.
So it just stands out a bit more on the page.
And we're going to write some text in this box.
So select the text tool and just click anywhere in our box. And I'm.
Going to write to William Morris. It looks a bit small at the moment,
but don't worry.
Go back to our selection tool and just drag.
Spelled that wrong. And we can just move this into place.
Now I've got the magnet option here selected, which means any text,
anything we draw,
we can easily align it into the center of our selection or image.
And holding down option key, just move that down.
I'm going to type in coloring book. And again,
move that into place.
And I think we will increase the size.
I like to put the text on the front of my.
Books quite large, so.
That it's clear and easy for people to read.
So when they're scanning through the Amazon page,
they know what they're looking at straight away. And as you can see,
we've got a very, well I think,
attractive looking cover that's easy to create. Again,
you might want to spend a bit more time on it just to,
to tweak a little bit and make it look a bit better.
But you could use that as a cover for your book.
I think that would look pretty good. So there you go. That's a quick,
easy technique to show you how to create a cover for coloring book
with that design of half being colored and half being in black and white
line lines. Now,
if you want to know how to create the interior for a book like this,
then I suggest watching this recent video next,
where I show you exactly how to do that. Thank you very much for your time.
It's very much appreciated and until next time goddbye.