In this video, I'm going to show you how to create a coloring
book. By using free tools only. There could be many reasons you
want to create a coloring book. If you are a primary teacher,
you might want to give it to your students. If you are a
parent, you want to give it to your children. Or even you can
sell a coloring book on websites such as teachers pay teacher's
or Amazon ignite, or even Amazon KDP, which is Kindle Direct
Publishing, this book will be a PDF book. And you don't have to
print this book to give it to your students or children. For
coloring, you can use a PDF annotation tool such as kemmy,
which I'm going to show you at the end. And then students will
be able to color this book online without printing the
book. And at the end of this video, I will show you how you
can get a template for this book as well. But before I start, if
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subscribe button. And now let's get started. First, I will walk
you through this coloring book because there are certain
elements, which you should know before I explain how I created
those elements. So this book has a cover page, this is cover page
and I created this cover page in Canva. And I downloaded this in
a PDF format. And this cover page has a serial number of this
book, then a title of the book a subtitle, then there is a
background. And then there is a space for name of the teacher.
Then on the second page, we have title of the book, once again,
version number and I have put my logo, you can put your logo
here, then we have index on which there is a list of images,
I have six images included in this coloring book. And then
these are the images, I have not put any instructions other than
this single line. And the book has only images. And there are
section number there as well, section number one elephant and
then section number two, and so on every image is on a single
page, the size of the page is a four and the size of images is
six inches by six inches, you can put more images, it is
simply a matter of your own choice. And then there is
another element at the end of this coloring book, which is
this image. This is an image and This image shows the end of the
book. So this was the brief introduction of the book. And
now let me introduce what software is this. This is called
tech maker, which is a free software and this is a latex
editor. And on the left hand side, I have few lines of latex
code, you don't have to learn all this code, you just have to
have a general understanding of how this is working. And this I
am going to explain you in this video. But the only thing you
want to have is this tech maker installed latech distribution
installed and a PDF viewer such as Acrobat PDF reader or
something like that. So these are the three things you have to
install Acrobat, mostly you have on your computer, then you have
to install latech distribution and this tech maker both are
free. And there is another video which shows you only this how to
install a latex system or to install latex distribution and
how to write your first latech program. I will put a link to
that video at this place, you can watch that video and you
will be up and running with latex. No, I am going to explain
this code generally not in detail because you don't have to
understand each and everything. The most important thing for you
to understand is that it has a certain format like any
programming language, but it is very simple to understand very
intuitive. The first line of any latech program is a document
class, I'm using ext article class, which is a style of
document then you will notice that there is same command use
package. These are few of the packages which I am inserting in
my latech program with backslash use package command. Every
single package does certain job in the program and you don't
have to understand how it works, you simply have to know which
package you should use for setting the margins. For
example, I am setting margins here. So I have to use this
package called geometric so you put the name of the package in
curly brackets and the option of the package inside square
brackets. This is how every use package command works. In some
packages, I'm not putting any option. I'm just putting the
name of the package and in front of the package I have put some
comments anything after this percentage sign is considered as
a comment. This is not a part of programming. So I am trying to
explain to you why I am using this package. For example, this
package allows the insertion of these images now the next part
of that code is this title. This is the title of the document.
And this is the title which appears on the second page I
have shown you, then there is a line for putting teacher's name.
And then there is a line for inserting the logo image. And
this is the name of the image logo dot png. So you have to put
all these images, the images of the your coloring book, and logo
image and the image at the end in the same folder, in which you
have saved this file. And the name of this file is coloring
book dot t x tech file, or latech file. So all these
images, six of the animal's logo image and the image at the end,
and the cover page PDF, all are in the same folder. Now this is
the name of the cover page file, which is a PDF file downloaded
from canva.com. And I'm going to show you in a minute, then these
three lines are for the title page, and then I'm setting some
page numbering style and page style. Now my document actual
PDF document starts from begin document and it ends at end
document very simple. And within this for every single image, I
have these four lines of code, as you can see that there is one
line instruction, which is here. And then I have inserted these
four lines of code for this elephant image. This is also an
image made in Canva, downloaded from Canva and saved by the name
of elephant dash one dot png. Now let me explain these four
lines. Because once you know these four lines, you can copy
and paste these four lines, as many times as many images you
want to put in your coloring book. The first of these four
lines is the section name, this one and this elephant no the
second line inserts this box how and why you don't have to know
just insert this line of code and this box will be inserted.
Then the third line is the color of the box 30% green rest is
black. Now the fourth line of code inserts this image this
image has been downloaded from canva.com. And it has been
stored in the same folder as elephant dash one dot png file,
you don't have to write PNG here and you have to put the width of
the image width equals six inches. And then in the next
curly brackets, you put the name of the file without PNG. So now
you know these four lines normally just copy paste, change
the name of the image file and your coloring book is ready,
then you only have to press two more buttons. One is this arrow,
you have to run the program which will compile it for you.
And then you have to press this arrow which will show you the
created PDF. So I'm going to press this first. So once I
press this, I will see a message here that it ended normally. So
it quickly showed me a message that it ended the process ended
normally and then it means everything is fine, there is no
error, no typing mistake or anything, make sure that you
type it correctly Are you can get the template and no, in
order to view the PDF, I have to click this second arrow. If I
click here, no, the PDF has been created. And now I can see the
PDF. Now let me show you the folder. This is my folder. And
as you can see that in this folder, I have all these images.
I'm going to show you how I got these images. And then I will
insert one more image in my book. And you will understand in
this folder, the C tech file, which is our latech program.
This is our cover page dot PDF. And this is our coloring book
PDF. When we compile this program, it has the same name,
we get this PDF, which is our final book then there are some
other files like this log file, there is another file this one
and also our to c file here not worry about these files because
latech creates some extra files during the compilation process,
you have to put just the cover image and the image which you
want to include in your coloring book and then this tech file,
very simple. And now I will show you how I created this in Canva.
So if I type Canva and now I click on canva.com. And I log
into my account and no I click on Create a design custom
dimension, change this to inches and six inch wide and six inch
high and create a design. So this is my canvas. Now I'll
click on this elements and at the top I type any image or
whatever I want and press enter. It will show me the images of
animals. Some of these images are free like this one, but some
are pro where you will see this sign. Let me include this turtle
image into our coloring book. I click on that I placed this at
the top left corner I hover at the right bottom corner when I
see this double sided arrow I drag I want to maximize this
image size. So just a little bit before I this this corner. Then
I click again and I try to center this Like so now I click
on Download select PNG and click on download. Then click on these
three dots Save As, and in my folder I save as turtle dot png
Save. Now inside my program, this is my last image. So this
is the last covering image. So I click on Ctrl C and copy this,
then at this place I press Ctrl V to paste. No, I have to change
this section name to title, the name of the section and the name
of the image. Very simple, and no another image will be added
after this Pugin to at this place, I simply click Run first,
and then I click View. And now as you can see that this turtle
has been added. So it is very simple process and you can
create a wonderful coloring book for your students are for your
own children. No, I have made a separate video in which I have
explained how I created exactly the same cover page, you can
watch that video, I will put a link here. But quickly, I will
show you in my Canva account. If I go back to home, I click on
all your designs know this is my cover page. If I click on that,
this is a four size if I check the size file, as you can see
that this is 210 by 297 millimeter, which is a four. So
when you create a design, you select millimeters on the right
hand side and you give this size then you select some backgrounds
from here. Any of these backgrounds, then text and few
more things, you can watch that video. The only thing important
is that when you download this cover page instead of PNG select
PDF standard, and then you download and save this as cover
page dot PDF. If you want to change the name of your file,
you must change here as well inside your court. So whatever
the file name you give to your PDF, put it here and everything
will be fine. Now the last thing is how to get this template. The
good news is that recently YouTube has allowed me to create
a channel membership area, I am not fully aware of how it works,
I will learn that thing in few days. And then I will make this
template and any other template available in that area. Because
I think that in membership area, you can put some other types of
files as well. But anyway, if you want this urgently, there is
a link in the description of all of my videos. To join my mailing
list. You just click on that link join my mailing list and in
the message area type that you want coloring book template and
I will send you this a tech file. Then you can watch my
later tutorial installed latex system and start making your
coloring books. Now you don't have to print this book in order
to give it to your students or children to color. They can
color state in the PDF online by using PDF annotation tools such
as kemmy PDF editor, I have a separate video, I will put a
link here. You can watch that video. And then you can send
this PDF to your students and they can color this so I hope
that you liked this video if so please give it a thumbs up.
Thanks for watching and see you next time.