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hey guys Ryan here with episode 14 of my
KDP mini series in this video I'm gonna
show you how you can create
print-on-demand coloring books to sell
through Amazon KDP by the way real quick
for those of you that are not initiated
into what KDP is it's Amazon's
self-publishing platform for authors so
it was intended to let people that want
to write books sell books on Amazon
easily because it's they're all print on
demand or ebooks but people soon
realized that they could also sell what
we call low content and no content books
similar to how we sell print on demand
t-shirts through Amazon merch we can
sell things like coloring books through
KDP and this video is gonna show you
exactly how to do that before I jump
into exactly how to do it real quick
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alright let's jump into the demo so what
I'm gonna be showing you is not a
standalone tool we're actually gonna be
using Microsoft PowerPoint and we're
gonna be using an add-in for PowerPoint
to convert normal images that are full
color into coloring book images and it
is so much easier than you probably
think
it is so by the way I got to give credit
to the author I don't know if he wants
me giving out his first name but he
publishes KDP tools under the pen name
bows publishing so shout out to him I'm
gonna put a link in the description
where you can grab his entire bows
publishing megapack he publishes
everything together as a single pack of
KDP tools and it's actually pretty
incredible the folder I've got open
right here is actually a bunch of
different interiors that he makes
available and he's constantly updating
it through his Gumroad
link which I'll put in the description
but tons of different interiors that you
can choose from if you're a subscriber
plus tools like this coloring book
add-in for PowerPoint so all you have to
do is double click the bows publishing
PC Mac PowerPoint file and enable macros
and once that's low
I'm going to open up my pre-made
PowerPoint file that I
appropriately-named KDP pptx and in it
I've got five images that I want to
convert to coloring book images meaning
we got to remove the color leave the
black lines and then let the kids fill
it in as they see fit
so all these images are pretty standard
and by the way the higher the dimensions
and resolution of the images the better
so this dog is not necessarily a great
pic you may not see it right now but
after we convert to coloring book you're
gonna see why so in order to get this
done guys now that we opened up
PowerPoint in the right order we get
this add-ins tab which is not there by
default it's up there near the top and
after clicking it all the way to the
right there's a Bo's publishing all
pictures stencil effect I'm gonna click
that I'm gonna hit confirm choice yes
and then the second prompt says in
selected slide so do you just want to
convert one slide I'm gonna go to in
slides range it automatically puts the
last slide and the first slide in for me
so that's every picture click OK and it
says procedure completes so as you can
see here by the way this image again the
first two dogs are not the best choice
of images you can see the the lines are
a little jagged so I should have
increased the dimensions of them they
were vectors prior to me saving them and
then pulling them into PowerPoint but
and there's a little sometimes a little
delay when you switch between slides
this one is a kid holding some
vegetables now this can be improved this
is not an uncommon thing the this is not
a perfect science but you can actually
fix these and optimize these relatively
easily so I don't know if you remember
what the original version of this
graphic looked like I actually have it
right here so we can make those lines a
little bit thicker and make this look
better for our coloring book purpose I'm
gonna right-click the image in
PowerPoint I'm going to go to format
picture and then this sidebar pops up
I'm going to click on the under format
picture here all the way to the right
the graphic icon and then under
picture Corrections where it says under
brightness/contrast and it says
brightness I'm going to click the down
arrow and then as you keep clicking it
don't click too much honestly one
percent at a time just monitor how it
changes your image until you get it how
you like it so notice it's bringing back
in the thicker black lines so for me I
think this right here looks like and
this ended up being thirty percent
brightness but don't think of that as a
universal control to apply everywhere it
really good is gonna vary from image to
image so if I jump down to the next one
I got a little delay there okay same
thing let me right-click this format
picture jump on over to brightness and
see what happens if I reduce this some
so once the eyeballs start to pop in the
pupils I think that it's starting to
look pretty good alright that looks good
to me
and then the Unicorn this one so not all
graphics are gonna be optimal for
creating a coloring book let's see if we
can save the unicorn obviously the
images that you know have the black
lines already in them are easier for
PowerPoint not necessarily black but
thicker lines are easier for PowerPoint
to figure out whereas the Unicorn does
not have those lines it's just solid
shapes bleeding into the next so we're
over here click the picture go to
brightness and keep altering until we
see these lines start to figure out all
right so the Unicorn we're gonna have to
chalk as a fail again not a perfect
science but we went for for five not bad
and as I mentioned before I don't know
if you guys can see how much i zoom in
so I can show you guys in the video but
the making you know higher dimension
graphics and high resolution is going to
reduce the likelihood of getting these
jagged edges but it also depends on like
what graphic you started with obviously
but the reason I'm saying that is
because I know this picture started as a
vector so did this one so there's no
reason for these jagged lines to
be there just be careful when you do
your image selection as you can see the
kid I sized these appropriately before
importing as PNG files into PowerPoint
and no issues there at all guys so
that's it this is a quick video
shout out to Bose publishing check his
entire bundle of interiors out real
quick before I wrap it why don't we just
check this so we got album reviews
amateur radio some some simple ones like
blood pressure journals which sell well
coin inventory log there was one I was
looking at earlier what was it it was
like house hunting yeah house purchasing
log you guys want to see what this looks
like on the inside so pretty cool you're
not gonna see too many you know home
buying journals on Amazon so again
anything that can differentiate
differentiate yourself from the crowd
and help you stand out remember though
the buyer journey starts with visibility
you know and I mean like if they search
for something you're selling but you
don't get seen you have a 0% chance of
getting a sale so if you can
differentiate yourself Zig while people
are sagging increase the likelihood of
getting visibility which increases the
likelihood of getting sales making money
that's the purpose all right guys and
that is pretty much it for this video
again before I final wrap it just wanted
to remind you that I have a KDP course
that walks you through start to finish
like if you guys watch this video and
you're like alright I'm intrigued how do
I get started you keep saying KDP what
does KDP mean check out the link in the
description to my KDP course just check
out the landing page there's plenty of
info on there it'll take you from not
knowing anything about KDP to expert
level and I share exactly how I made
three thousand five hundred dollars
profit in my first 10 weeks on KDP ok
that's completely legit you can actually
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