Create Professional Looking Connect the Dot Books for KDP | No Drawing Required

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In this video, I’m going to show you how to create a professional looking “Connect the Dots” Children’s Book, using the Book Bolt Studio. And I’m going to show you how to create this book, using only 3 downloads from Creative Fabrica.
So if you’re someone who struggles with drawing your own illustrations, or with graphic design; then this video is for you!
0:00 - Create Professional Looking Activity Books for KDP!
0:18 - Animated intro.
0:29 - Why you should be using Book Bolt and Creative Fabrica.
3:19 - How to prepare illustrations for the Connect the Dot Generator in Book Bolt.
10:12 - How to set up a new project in the Book Bolt Studio.
11:29 - How to use the Connect the Dot Generator in Book Bolt.
16:50 - How to create a printing practice template for kids.
22:07 - How to create a professional looking Connect the Dot book cover for KDP.
44:21 - Closing thoughts.
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@paular2442 Год назад

I appreciate the detail given in this video. This is the first video in which I do not feel as if there is something missing. This was the best explanation, including how to work with Photoshop. I learned more about Photoshop than I learned from a class, much easier to follow. Thank you.

@CraigBabin Год назад

That's very kind of you to say Paula. I'm glad you found the video helpful.

@jennybolch7200 Год назад

Wow, I wish I had artistic vision like that. I’ll have to watch this video a few more times to totally comprehend it. So many useful editing tips. Thank you

@CraigBabin Год назад

You're quite welcome Jenny.

@mrc7593 Год назад

On point again our Craig! Thanks for all the effort you put in!

@CraigBabin Год назад

It's my pleasure Mr. C.

@DragonfliesandFairyLights 9 месяцев назад

Great tutorial. I love that you make a point to demonstrate best practice. Thank you so much!

@CraigBabin 9 месяцев назад

You're quite welcome.

@saracosta620 Год назад

This video was extremely enlightening. Thank you.

@CraigBabin Год назад

You're quite welcome Sara.

@nattiyatakhoon7761 Год назад

Thank you for your advice! It helps 🎉

@CraigBabin Год назад

I'm glad I could help Nattiya.

@sharonkamelonline 9 месяцев назад

Really just awesome, got so many tips about book builder so really appreciate that - I've just started but wish I had watched this video before I published my first 4 coloring books. Thanks again Craig, your guides are truly brilliant.

@CraigBabin 9 месяцев назад

I'm glad you're finding them helpful Sharon.

@mariagalek-tanaka6121 11 месяцев назад

You are THE BEST!

@CraigBabin 11 месяцев назад

You're to kind Maria.

@benicio1967 Год назад

HOLY COW!!! And I do mean HOLY COW!!! I always wanted to do connect the dots. I thought it would be so much fun and so easy. I can honestly say I know now I know that I simply will not ever be able to make dot to dot books. Who knew theyd be this difficult and complicated. I can’t lie. I couldn’t understand the necessity of any of the steps and you my friend are truly brilliant that you were able to understand this process and were able to figure out all these steps. I’m seriously blown away at the complexity of this particular genre. It looks so simple to do and they are anything but. I think I’ll have to just do the word search and sudoku books first and attempt the really advanced books down the road. I salute your skills.

@CraigBabin Год назад

I think you're selling yourself short, it just takes time to get the hang of it. That being said, puzzle books are a great place to start.

@benicio1967 Год назад

@@CraigBabin thank you. You really know your craft. Very impressive. ❤️

@CraigBabin Год назад

@@benicio1967 I appreciate that, thanks.

@kameleonpublishing Год назад

Best 45 min of my life :D

@CraigBabin Год назад

You need to get out more! lol

@manxman300 6 месяцев назад

Craig. I have been enjoying your videos. Lots of detail, yet easy to follow (even if I have to back up the video from time to time!!). My memory might be off, but it is telling me that in one video you saved final images as CYMK and in this video RGB. If that is true, why the difference. Richard (p.s. also a Canadian !!)

@CraigBabin 6 месяцев назад

If you have access to Pantone color swatches in the design software you're using (like Adobe Illustrator), then definitely save out in CMYK, because Pantone colors are as close to RGB as you;re going to get. But in Book Bolt, when you switch over to CMYK, all the software is doing is converting the RGB colors to CMYK and to be honest, KDP can do a better job of that when they print the book. If you haven't yet, watch this video where I discuss this topic in a little more detail: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4bgNP9O-Tcs.htmlsi=oiAUd9aaprCBXg1V

@manxman300 6 месяцев назад

@@CraigBabin thank you for the quick reply

@bluebellbell3725 Год назад

You got a new subcriber:)

@CraigBabin Год назад

Welcome aboard!

@teto19777 Год назад

Hello Thanks for the video I love it, can't wait to create one. One question once you upload this digital file to Amazon KDP, is the book then sold on amazon as a digital file or will it be sold as a hard copy? Do you have a video on uploading a Amazon KDP and what happens after you upload?

@CraigBabin Год назад

It will be sold as a physical printed book. I have a video that walks you step by step through the process of uploading your book to KDP here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6aVbQY3ow8Y.html

@thechetpicker Год назад

Thank you for the tutorial. Can I ask, can you create the spine for the book with bookbolt too?

@CraigBabin Год назад

Yeah, you just have to rotate the text 90 degrees.

@deewhite0612 Год назад

Great video. If only I can be as artistic as you!! Why didn't you use the Duplicate feature instead of Copy and Paste? Is there any particular reason?

@CraigBabin Год назад

Thanks Dee. I normally use hotkeys for functions like that. I don't in the video, so that my viewers can see what functions I'm using. I'm left handed, so CTRL+C (Copy) and CTRL+V (Paste), only require me to use one hand. CTRL+O (Duplicate), requires me to use both hands on my keyboard, because the keys are so far apart. I use a mini keypad for drawing, so I only have one CTRL key on my keyboard, so I copy and paste for convenience.

@tessawestbrook267 Год назад

Hi @Craig Babin, are you able to do a video for photopea and the dot to dot image preparation?

@CraigBabin Год назад

It's the same as in Photoshop. Photopea is just a knock off of Photoshop. The interface is pretty much identical.

@tessawestbrook267 Год назад

Thanks @Craig Babin. Will have a go. Great videos!

@christiancarretto Год назад

One thing I noticed no book bolt tutorials talk about is ... The interior pages, is it on both sides of each page? So for example is 50 puzzles 25 pages ?

@CraigBabin Год назад

Every page in the Book Bolt Studio represents one side of an actual physical page in a printed book. I address this in this video here: 16:06

@AutismDrama1 5 месяцев назад

Hi Craig, I hope you can help me. I watched video on Create Professional Looking Connect the Dot Books for KDP.I’m having a problem with the image opacity. I want to not completely remove the image as having a Dot to Dot book that will have numbers on one side. Is this possible and I’m missing how to do this? Thank you Your videos are so great and your so patient with your teachings.

@CraigBabin 5 месяцев назад

I'm not sure if I'm understanding what you're asking. If you only want numbers on one half of the image, then just erase the half of the image where you want the numbers to be.

@AutismDrama1 5 месяцев назад

@@CraigBabin On Book Bolt I haven’t been able to erase half with opacity. It fades or erases the whole image. And thank you for responding so quickly.

@CraigBabin 5 месяцев назад

@@AutismDrama1 Oh I see, you won't be able to erase the image in Book Bolt, you need to be in a photo editing software like Photoshop. If you don't have access to Photoshop, just use Photopea.com , it's a free knockoff of Photoshop, and you don't have to download it, you can use it right in your browser window.

@juliejuly3154 Год назад

Hello Craig, thank you very much for the video. Just one question that was tormenting me all the time I was watching you creating the book cover: why did you keep shifting between Photoshop and Book Bolt instead of doing everything in Photoshop? What is so special about Book Bolt (in terms of cover creation) that you can't do in Photoshop?

@CraigBabin Год назад

You can do it all in Photoshop. What you can't do in Photoshop is layout your book's interior, you need InDesign for that. What you can't do in Photoshop is generate puzzles or research profitable niches like you can in Book Bolt. This video is for people who can't afford Adobe software and who want all of the benefits that Book Bolt offers as well. Unfortunately, Book Bolt studio is still developing, so it may be another year before you are able to do in Book Bolt, those things I did in Photoshop. So for now, there are a few tasks that still need to be done in Photoshop or Photopea. But once Book Bolt updates it's software to be able to do all of those things, as far as self publishing low and medium content books is concerned, Book Bolt will be a far better option for creating books than Adobe software will be. And that's simply because of the Puzzle Generator and the Research aspect, as well as the fact that the Book Bolt Studio is designed specifically for desktop book publishing. Adobe software will always be able to do a lot more in the way of graphic design and publishing other forms of print media, but if you're only interested in publishing low and medium content books, then you don't need to be able to do any of that extra stuff, so there's no reason to pay the extra money. Book Bolt has pretty much everything you need to succeed in self publishing, from both the creation and marketing stand point. I still use Photoshop and InDesign to create my books, but I also use Book Bolt for the research and puzzle generator. I'm simply trying to show people who can't afford both software, how to do everything in Book Bolt. Book Bolt is simply a cheaper all-in-one alternative to the higher priced Adobe software, that also has everything you need for one particular task. Hopefully that answers your question.

@juliejuly3154 Год назад

@@CraigBabin Thank you very much, now I get it!

@adriansnyder6013 Год назад

I can not seem to find the dot to dot on my book bolt studio. I am also having trouble deleting a page that I don't need. Any ideas?

@CraigBabin Год назад

Make sure that the image you are putting the dots on is selected on your page, the dot generator is located in the tool bar directly above the art board, it looks like a letter "N", just click on it. When deleting pages, make sure that the page you want to delete is not the page that's loaded onto your art board. In other words, if you want to delete "page 4", then select "page 5" in the left hand menu and make sure that it's loaded on to your art board. Then go back to the left hand menu and "right" click on "page 4" (do not select it) and choose delete page.

@adriansnyder6013 Год назад

@@CraigBabin You are my hero. Worked perfectly. Your directions were so much better than the help desk. Thank you!

@CraigBabin Год назад

@@adriansnyder6013 You're welcome, glad I could help Adrian.

@jbello9398 Год назад

Are these price percentage discount for life? Just curious

@CraigBabin Год назад

If you're talking about the yearly Creative Fabrica deal, then yes, it will renew at the same rate.

@pjayis Год назад

what is the %20 off price code to use

@CraigBabin Год назад

craigbabin

@l.phipps5478 Год назад

This is way too complicated for me; however, your cover looks amazing.

@CraigBabin Год назад

It's really not as complicated as it looks. I'm actually just repeating the same steps over and over throughout the entire video. I don't think you give yourself enough credit ... you can do it!

@l.phipps5478 Год назад

@@CraigBabin Thanks for your encouragement. I will re-watch the video and give it a try.

@mrc7593 Год назад

I watch the video through quickly once, without pausing, to get an overview of the content. I then watch it again (and again) pausing the video at specific points to think about what is being done and to work it out for myself. I’m on my third run as I speak. People, this is the way to do it, it’s so simple. Just need a little patience and logic!

@CraigBabin Год назад

@@mrc7593 I couldn't have said it better myself Mr C!

@patriciagoertzen8857 4 месяца назад

Much to complicated; is there a step by step by step manual with pics on how to use for dot to dot from a pic that I supply?

@CraigBabin 4 месяца назад

No, I only have my videos.

@pjayis Год назад

i tried using your name on BookBolt and it said it was not accepted

@CraigBabin Год назад

Are you sure you spelled it right, lowercase with no spaces? "craigbabin" And you're putting it in where it asks for the promo code, correct? It should be working, I just received 3 new commissions in the last 2 hours. Let me know if it still doesn't work.