Crafting Your Children's Book Story and Illustrations with AI

1. Welcome to Your Children's Book Creation Journey!: I'm Professor Hegazi, and I'm thrilled to guide you on this exciting journey. In this course, I'll share the secrets behind how to create a consistent character that can captivate your young readers. You'll learn how to create captivating children's books, choosing powerful AI tools like Leonardo AI for creating consistent and appealing characters. And Chat GBT for crafting engaging storylines and dialogues, making it a hands on and practical learning experience. Here's what you can expect. Creating stunning illustrations, either with AI or pre existing graphic elements. Imagine the joy of seeing your book in the hands of young readers, inspiring and delighting them with your story. So let's get started. Join me as we create and design an actual book throughout the course to make everything as practical and clear as possible. My goal is for me to provide you with the skills needed to create your own children's book. This course really is meant to give you the skills, tools, the encouragement, and so on, for you to produce your very first children's book, or even if you have produced a children's book, to do so with AI. So I'll dive into more details as to how to publish something to this effect, something like this. And of course, with your own genre, with your own topic. Let's make your author dreams come true. I'll see you inside. 2. Inspiration Unveiled: The Final Product of an AI Created Children's Book: Right. So in this section, we're going to talk about illustrating your story. I published my first children's book on Amazon KDP, and it was a top new release. And it was also a best seller in its genre when it comes to children's Engineering books and children's inventor books. So I think the best way to talk about how to illustrate your story is to give you a case study, an actual situation, an actual publication that has worked for me. And so this is the book that I published, as I mentioned, it's called Adam the Curious Engineer. And this is the book cover. Now, when it comes to illustrating your story, and we'll talk more about this, you actually should design the interior of your book first and then go back to your book cover. The reason being is because the interior is essentially what is contingent on what the book cover would entail. What the book cover will involve has a lot to do with what is the interior and vice versa. But to get that final look for the book cover, I think the most effective ways first to design your interior, build all your pages, and then you can have a book cover that matches it accordingly. Now, let's look at the interior because this is all about, illustrating your story. So my book starts off like this. So it states this book belongs to, and then the child can basically write their name here, marking ownership of the book. And this is the copyright page which we will also discuss, and I'll talk to you about how to implement that. But this is the story. So when I first thought of developing a children's book, because I'm in the engineering field, I thought of developing something relating to Stem, science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and I wanted it to be something that's engaging and captivating to children. Now, one of the things that you have to pinpoint before you proceed, you need to establish is what age are you trying to target, and you also need to develop a story line that's engaging and captivating. If you don't want to follow sort of the orthodox standard way of developing a story, you can deviate from that. In fact, I did that as well, but you need to remain consistent. So when I first started brainstorming the idea of this book, I was thinking of doing an engineering fun facts book. So in the beginning, I just wanted a bunch of fun facts about engineering in different areas of engineering. But then I thought, why not make why not add a main character? I did. I added a character called Adam. The first page here says, Me Adam, a curious young boy who loves to explore and learn how things work. Now, instead of doing like an engineering Fun Facts book, what I thought about doing is why not make it a main character who's exploring different stem adventures? I thought of creating a series called Stem Engineering Adventures. And since we'll be creating a book throughout this course, the second book will be called Jenna Creative Engineer. This book right here is called Adam the Curious Engineer. The second book of the series is called Jenna the Creative Engineer, which will be the second part of the series. And as you can see here, there's a fun fact mention in this page, but it also highlights Adam as the main character. So it says Adam thinks about how wind turn bines work. He knows they convert wind energy into electricity. So I make sure Adam is still understood to be the main character, and then I provide a fun fact about engineering. So instead of just being like a standard engineering fun fact book, I decided to add a main character that children can relate to, can look at. It's visual. You know, the illustrations are beautifully appealing, visually appealing. And they're drawn to it. It's engaging, it's captivating. Now, you'll notice say, We go along. The story doesn't really follow? And I did that intentionally. It's not like a story that you're reading from A to Z. It's more so that every page is its own story, right? So as you go along, Adam is going on these different adventures and coming across different technologies and different things that spark his curiosity because part of this book is to develop engineering curiosity. And when you go to illustrate your own story, I want you to think about what's your target audience, what's your goal? What's your objectives? How are you trying to present sort of you know, the facts behind Your story. If you do have a story, if you're doing like a fun fax kind of book, which is what I'm doing here, an Aaamin character, then how are you going to make it make sense? So as you can see, this one says, Adam spots a train and recalls how it works. Engines move with steam power. So in every page, it's like a new adventure, as you can see, right? Here, I add another character, so I say Adam rides a hot air balloon with his dad and asks how it works. His dad explains the burner, heats the air inside, making it rise. Okay. So as you go along, again, he's going on all these different adventures and different areas, different disciplines of engineering. So here, it's more like civil engineering, so he pretends to be a construction worker. So there's imaginative play. There's thought provoking engineering concepts in place. So here, he's fascinated by how engineers use electricity to produce light. Here he pauses his video game and marvels at the creativity of engineers who make them. So different cas scenarios in different locations. Here he's riding in an electric car with his family. He wonders how the car stays charged. And so on and so forth. So as you go down, the other thing is Adam is getting older as you're going down here. And he's also getting smarter, right? So here he's now building a solar panel science project at school. He tested it under the hot sun to power one of his electric toys. So as you go along, he's thinking, his curiosity is increasing. He's growing in age. So he starts off at 4-years-old, and as you can see, he's now perhaps you know, seven, eight, 9-years-old, and he's getting older and discovering more, going through many different adventures. So here, you know, he's in his bathtub, with a diving mask and a snorkel. He pretends to be a submarine engineer, exploring the ocean's depths. Here, he's playing with a VR headset, wondering about the digital world. Here he's pretending to be a doctor, plays with his toy x ray, thinking about how it takes pictures of bones inside our bodies. He makes a phone call, wondering how signals are being sent. An elevator, he wonders how motors and pulleys move it up and down, a telescope, traffic light, for instance, an airplane, and so on and so forth. So again, as you can see, he's getting older, he's getting more intelligent. He's using his brain more. He's thinking more about engineering fundamentals. So here, he's using a computer at the library. He realizes how they're like electronic brains with chips and circuits that follow instructions to do tasks. Then finally, this is the last page. It says, Adam finally decides to build his own engineering project at home and has a lot of fun. He's excited to become an engineer one day. How about you? Now, you may be wondering, Is this content also AI generated partially? So, initially, I prompted Chat GPT to provide a structure, but I took it and I modified it, I crafted it. I made it so that it's relevant to my book. So There's absolutely nothing wrong with using Gen AI. In fact, this is what this course is teaching, is to save time, to save money, to save you know, effort in building and creating and publishing a best selling children's book and to leverage AI. But also, to do it in a smart way where you're not just copy and pasting everything that AI outputs, because let's face it, as you know, AI is still, although it's trending, it's still undergoing a lot of improvements. So it does have its shortcomings. There's a lot to consider when you're dealing with AI, and that's why there's a whole course for this because you need to grab the content, and once you do so, you need to modify it accordingly, add it to the pages, make sure that it aligns with the illustrations that you're using and your story, and so on. So in my case, I did a Stem engineering adventures, you know, Niche or topic. In your case, you may do something completely different, and that's okay. You know, you could do something about animals and children. You know, you could do something about flowers and children or even food, different types of food or cooking or whatever it is, right? There's so many different topics that children can relate to in different ways. So it all depends on what you want to do. Do you want to start a series? Do you want to create one book, make it stand alone? So there's a lot to consider when you're illustrating a story, and this is how I develop mine. And I'll show you more as to how I utilize Chat GBT to actually build my content. 3. Accessing ChatGPT: Building Your Book’s Storyline: In order to create your story line, we need to access chat GBT. I'm going to show you how to log in. Essentially, all you do is you go to chat open a.com and I'll provide the resource. Essentially once you get here, you go to log in. Once you click on that, You would just continue with either your Google account, Microsoft account, or Apple. In my case, I have a Google account, so I'm going to go ahead and click on Continue with Google. Once I've done that, I'm already logged in. So you can see here that I'm on Chat GBT, the free version. There's also a Chat GBT plus, which you would you can upgrade, but it would require a subscription. That's pretty much it. In this message prompt, this is where we will be sending all our information and using and leveraging AI specifically Chat GBT to develop our story line that will take as text, modify accordingly based on the story that you're trying to illustrate and then embed it into Canva for our interior page and ultimately develop our children's book. 4. Crafting Captivating Titles and Content with ChatGPT: Right. So continuing on with illustrating your story. I want to show you what I've done with Chat GBT when it comes to generating the content that I'll be using for the book that I'll be publishing next, which is essentially what you could do when you go ahead and publish your book. So, this is what I have done thus far. I started the conversation with Chat GBT, and I'm just going to go through what I've done and I'm going to add to it at the end because I'm not done yet. So I'm asking it to give me some title options for my next book, and I mentioned to AI to the chat bot that the character's name will be Jenna, okay? So the character's name will be Jenna, and it basically gave me an output of different title options for my next book featuring Jenna. So as you can see, there's a bunch of different options here, and I tended to favor this one immediately as soon as I saw it. Jenna, the creative engineer really makes sense to me because I'm thinking, you can add a flavor of art to it and also engineering, and I think that's a really cool mixture. So I think it could relate to a lot of students who both like art and have a passion for engineering. So I want to focus on N Niche for Stem. So I said I love number two. That's the second choice here. And basically said great choice, and so on and so on. Would you like to develop Genis C character profile next or brainstorm some story lines for the book? So I just said it should be switched. It should be Jenna the creative Engineer, Colon, Stem Engineering adventures. So just to kind of swap those two around. And that's it. So I went ahead and did that for me. So the next prompt should be something like this. And I'll give you the Syntax. I'll drop it as a downloadable resource for you to just enter into Chat GBT, but you want something like this, and I'll give you the syntax to use so it could be made easy for you when you're developing your book. But here I said, because I'm giving some information, it's basically saying, let's develop Jenna's character profile, as you can see. Here are some questions to guide us. It wants to know age and background, personality traits, interests, and hobbies, family and friends, first adventure or just some ideas of its adventure or Jenna's adventure that she'll be taking on. So Here is what I put. I said, Jenna loves art. She's artistic, loves to draw, color, et cetera. Give me a draft for 30 pages. And the reason I want 30 pages is because that's typical for like a children's book. You don't really want too many pages, something around, I think, as I mentioned before, like 25 to 50 pages is good. So I'm going for 30 pages. In the case of Adam D Curious Engineer, the book that I've published, I hit about 36 pages. So 30 pages, I think will be great. So I said, give me a draft for 30 pages. Each page demonstrating her artistic skills and how it makes her ponder about various engineering concepts. Each page will have one appealing sentence in it designed to capture the young reader's interest. It will be both fun and educational for four to ten years of age. So it goes ahead and it gives me a draft. Jenna, the creative engineer stem Engineering adventures, and it says, page one, and so on. It gives me some stuff here. So I thought that initially the first draft was neat, but I felt like it was too basic. So I did go ahead and prompt it. And I also didn't feel like there were enough engineering key words. So I went ahead and I prompted it again. I said, good, but update the content of each page to include more engineering key words. So now I'm focusing on specificity. I'm being specific. So here it goes ahead and adds some more engineering terms, for instance. On page two, it says, drawing a sturdy bridge, Genna wonders how engineers calculate weight distribution. So weight distribution is a technical engineering concept. So Then the next page, page three, it says, she learns that engineers use materials like steel and concrete. So here's some specifics, right? Looking down, we can see that, for instance, page eight, drawing elevators in her skyscraper, end to wonders about their mechanical workings. So things like that. And there's more. But I still felt like It can be further enhanced. So this is what I said next. I said, good. But some of the words used are too advanced for the young reader. Remember, I'm targeting ages four to ten. So I did feel like some of the words were a little too much. You know, they're a little bit advanced for that age group. And so I decided that I should probably have chat GPT, you know, kind of bring it down to that target audience a little better. So it goes ahead and does that. But then I felt when it did this, it was using words like stuff, which I don't think I want the word stuff at all anywhere in my book. And I also felt like it was too basic. So I said, please don't use the word stuff. And also now you made it sound too basic and simple. So I kind of want a middle ground there, you know, not too advanced, not too simple for that age group. Make it educational, use engineering keywords, make it suitable for young readers. Then it goes ahead and it prompts me and it gives me something that is a lot closer to what I'm looking for. I says Jenna loves to draw bright pictures in her notebook. That's page one, that's fine. She sketches a strong bridge, wondering how it can hold up so much weight. These words are easy to understand. Now, what I did notice is unlike Adam, the Curious Engineer, which had an adventure in every page, what it's doing is it's sort of concatenating say three pages, two or three pages for one concept. And I'm not sure how I feel about that right now. I am st leaning more towards having you know, a different engineering concept in every single page. But I also like the idea of, you know, having more of a plot, more of a story line because my other book, one of the feedbacks that I received was that, you know, students may be drawn to having more of a story line, but I wasn't aiming for that. I was aiming for an engineering fun fact book with a main character. So all depends on what you want to do. You know, a lot of people loved it, loved the idea that I brought out with Adam Ncurius Engineer, but then others said they would like something more like this. So I'm thinking to provide something where I am giving multiple engineering concepts, but also, you know, finding that middle ground and also giving more of a storyline of plot and so on. So I may use this. Let's see. So I see a few concepts here. One is about bridges, skyscrapers, elevators, solar panels, electric cars, airplanes, roller coasters, submarines. And yeah, and then just kind of concluding. So this may work fine. It only covers, say, like, you know, five, six engineering concepts, but it's okay. I think this might work. The one thing I did want to add, so I'm going to go ahead and prompt it. I wanted to you know, use engineering concepts that are a little bit more unique and not like the ones in my previous book because I see it's taken at least like two or three of them from my previous book. I also want because it's a series. I want the main character from my previous book, that is Adam, Adam, the curious Engineer, to join Jenna, the creative engineer and at least one or two of the pages near the end, perhaps to kind of show continuity in the story, and also in the series. Here's what I'm going to prompt it. Great. However, can you please modify it so that we are using more unique engineering concepts that are different from the former book, you need to be specific because Chat is familiar with my former book, Adam Decars Engineer, because this is the chat log, the same script where I've actually produced Adam D Curious Engineer. There's a history behind it. CT is intelligent enough to know what I'm talking about. Okay. Also, what I'd like it to do is I'd like you to also add a page or two where Adam joins ena in an engineering adventure. This will establish continuity for my book series, where two characters meet. So I think Cat GBT will understand where I'm coming from and please remember That I'm aiming for 30 pages, and you only provided 28 pages. So maybe those could be the two pages that I'm looking for. I'm going to go ahead and enter that in and let AI, do its magic. So hopefully, it gives us, you know what I'm looking for. All right. So starting with Page one, I really like page one. I think it's a good opener. Jenna love to draw bright pictures in hero because remeber, she's a creative engineer. She sketches a wind turnbine, wondering how it generates electricity. Okay? And she learns about wind turnbines. Here's a new one, drawing a water dam. Cool. That's something new. That's not used in my previous book. A robotic arm. I don't have a robotic arm either. There is, like, a toy robot, but robotic arm is kind of different. So that's different. There's a drone, that's new, a three D printer. I don't have that as well. A suspension bridge. Interesting. I do have a bridge in Adam Decius Engineer, but a suspension bridge is a little different. Drawing a space station. That's creative. All right. There's new stuff here. Yeah, this is really cool. Geothermal plant. Okay. So, as you can see, there's a new engineering concepts. So I really like this. And then let's take a look at the end. So, again, we're aiming for 30 pages. Now, I see here, starting from page 38, Adam joins. One day, Gen meets Adam, and they decide to build a solar powered car together. Okay. Together, they design. Okay, so I really like this. Together, they design a car, thinking about solar panels, motors, and wheels, Jen and Adam's adventures inspire them to keep exploring and creating. How about you? Okay, I like this a lot. But there's one or two things modified near the end. So here's what I'm going to say. So this is good. However, for page 28, I'd like you to introduce Adam as Adam the curious engineer. So young readers can recognize him specifically from the previous book in the series. Mm. That's the one thing that I want to. Well, the first thing I want to change here is I want to modify this it mentions Adam curious Engineer specifically. And the other thing that I would like to adjust is on page 29, also for page 29, make it clear that they are designing that they are drawing a car and then decide to build a toy car together because they're not going to build an actual car, you know, they're children. So I think those two will really be the cherry on top here and hopefully can lead us to the final version of my story, which will or the content of my story that I will use to embed into Canva and produce my interior. All right. So it's going ahead and giving me all my pages. Beautiful. All right, so there we go. Page 28, one day, Jenna meets Adam the Curious engineer, and they decide to draw a solar powered car together. Together, they plan and build a toy car, thinking about solar panels, motors, and wheels. Jenna and Adam's adventures inspires them to keep exploring and creating. How about you? Now, there's two ways to end this. I can either say, you know, Jenna's creative adventures inspire them to keep exploring and creating and leave Adam out of it since Jenna is the main character of this book, or I can just mention both of them as it states here. I'll think about that later. I can do these final touchps later on, but here I have a structure to work on. And by the way, I can still edit this. This is not set in stone. You can edit this as you like. But the point is to have something to work with where you can take content generative generated AI content and bring it into your interior pages, and then you could play around, modify it accordingly, and make it make sense with your visuals. So we'll get into those parts next and look at how to kind of correlate visual. We'll generate AI images accordingly and match it with its texts and make a story out of it. 5. Designing Character Consistency with Canva Graphics: An important part of illustrating your story is to have actual illustrations that are meaningful and captivate your young readers, especially for a children's book. I'm going to show you how to create consistent characters using two methods. One would be using pre existing graphical elements. The other using AI. Now, even if you were to use pre existing graphical elements, you still have to leverage AI to an extent or you can. You don't have to, but you can to create like backgrounds and all that. But even that you can use pre existing backgrounds. But I'm going to show you different approaches. In this specific session, I'm going to show you how to use preexisting graphic elements. In the next session, we're going to leverage AI, which is mainly what I'm going to be using to develop my illustrations. I'm going to use one of the Gen AI image creating programs out there. But I will still be modifying and adjusting the images in Canvas in this platform. Let's go ahead and let me show you how to create a character or identify a character using Canva that will be consistent. I will also show you how to find multiple characters, if you want. If you're interested in having multiple characters, but still have consistency in the looks of your characters, then that's something I can show you as well. Because there's consistency in having a character and then there's also consistency in having multiple characters, but characters that would compliment each other, if you will. So let's go ahead and start. Say, for instance, I want to look at a consistent character. I'm going to try a turtle, multiple poses. And I can try different animals or characters. And I was doing some research in Canvas, and I found that turtles might be a good option. There's many others, by the way. But I can go ahead and click on CL, for instance, under graphics, under elements and graphics. And it seems like this might be a good option. So I'm going to click on that and you know what, if I click on C, they'll actually give me all the ones that are related to the specific image. Let me actually go back and I want to grab that one, but I do want to see all. Now, this shows me different poses of this specific character. If you can identify multiple poses for a character, then that could be a good candidate for a consistent character for your book. Because you can see, we have a few here already, four at. I'm sure there's many more. If you go down, you'll find several others. Okay. Yeah. So as you can see, there's definitely more that you can play with here. So let's work with at least these five that we have. Now, say, for instance, I wanted to use one of these Say for instance, I use this one. And I want to create the first page of my story. What I can do is I can also leverage AI in this case, or I can look for preexisting backgrounds. Say for instance, I want to look for a pond background because it makes sense for a turtle. I can grab something like this, and I don't really like this one, but there's many different ones out here. So for instance, we use something like this. I can go ahead and do this. For instance, and I can send this backward and I can have the turtle, show that it's running in a pawn setting, for instance, right? Then what I could do is I can just have some text over here and I can say, the turtle, runs on a nice warm day. All I can say the total runs by a pond on a nice warm day. Now, you can't really see this well. I'll show you how to do all this stuff later when we build our actual book, but I did want to go over pre existing graphic elements. If you can't see this properly, you can all properly, you can always add like a background, so if you go under shapes. You can grab something like this, and you can change the color of it if you wish. You can make it transparent. You can do something like that, for instance. You could take our text. You can oops. We can grab that and make it a little smaller. And actually, we can change this font again, and you can pick the color that you want, could be anything. That's not a good color. But yeah, pick whichever color that you see fit. I think a darker color will make sense. So let's just go with black for now. There you go. The turtle runs by a pond on a nice warm day. You definitely want to make sure that everything is within margins, so you can always adjust the stuff later, and you can change the font size here as well to to make it look better. There you go. Something like that. Okay. So there you have it. I mean, you have a character, and you can make as many pages as you want, so you can have a bunch of pages like this, and this is one way to identify a consistent character. And make multiple pages and ultimately make a book out of it. Now, what if you wanted to do something different? Say for instance, let me go ahead and delete all this, and we're going to try another one. I'm going to go ahead and delete all that. It was actually coming out pretty nice, but that's not the type of book that I want to do. Say, for instance, I want to find let's try dinosaurs here, and dinosaurs with multiple poses. Let's see if something does come up. Or let's say we try Yeah, Dinosaurs multiple, that's fine because it'll still give me different poses. Here's a dinosaur. I'm going to go ahead and click on CL. Let's say, for instance, I want dinosaurs that are similar, but they're not necessarily the same characters. Different types of dinosaurs so that I can make a dinosaur type book, a dinosaur educational book. Here I have different kind dinosaurs, different characters. I can definitely make use of this, as you can see. There's all the different types of dinosaurs that I have here. In each of them, O for each of them, I can create a page, right? And make a story a whole story out of it. And as you can see there's actually a lot of options for dinosaurs. Okay. So here I have like four. And again, there's many, many others. We say, for instance, I started with these four. Now, again, I can do the same thing. So I can go here and I can find we can look for like a prehistoric background. A prehistoric background. And I do see some that might work. So you can use one of these, and again, you can make sure that it fits the margins and covers the border. Because we're using bleed, you can definitely go past the margins. So that's completely fine as you saw. But another way that you can actually you know, have yourself a good background is you can actually generate it using AI. So under Apps, an App section here, you can search for Magic Media, which I've just done, and once you click on Magic Media, it takes and you can enter and sort like chat GBT, what you're looking for, and then it'll generate it for you. So say, for instance, I want a prehistoric or I want to say beautiful, prehistoric background, something like that. I can select what style I want. So you want something that matches what you have here. So I wouldn't say watercolor. Maybe dreamy. Let's try dreamy, and I'm going to generate that image and let's see if it works for us. So that's generating. Let me go ahead and grab one of our characters here. I'll take the T rex and let's see what magic Media gives us, and I'll apply it accordingly. All right. So here's a background of a series of prehistoric background. I'm going to go ahead and use this. I'm going to grab that. And this is AI generated. So I will make it fill up the whole page, and I will send this back backward, and there you go. So I can have something like this. I mean, it's a little dark for our character. He's a It's a pretty bright character. So I definitely think there could be a better background, but I did want to show you that there's an option there. You can also just try again, right? So you can regenerate and pick something different. Maybe anime might work good here. So let's try generating it again and see if an anime option will be better. And you could play around because it's AI, you know, sky's the limit. You can just keep trying with different characters. You can even put multiple characters in the same page if you liked, right? So you can have one character here, say one another character here. For instance, we could try a different background. So I'm going to give this one a shot. See if that one fits better. I think Spideer looks of it, it looks like it's already going to fit a lot better. So I'm going to go ahead and send this back. Mm hm. So I need to send this all the way back. And there you go. That definitely looks a lot better. Right? So this is another option. I mean, you can have something like this. TRX obviously you should probably be a little bigger. There you go. You have two characters, and then you could again add text here if you want, which I'm not going to do right now, but just to show you, when it comes to creating characters or building your illustrations in general, you can certainly do so by pre existing graphic elements. These are elements that already exist in a library. And in this case, we're talking about Canvas. Canva has a bunch of elements, a bunch of graphics that you can use. You just have to search accordingly, enter into proper keywords and use the appropriate tools, whether it's AI or existing backgrounds and apply it accordingly. So at time, you can gain experience and learn more how to use and learn how to use Canva better. Definitely recommend that you, you know, dive into this and get familiar with using Canva. Play around with the graphic elements and see if it works for you. So in the next section, I'm going to teach you how to leverage AI tools such as Leonardo, AI. I'll also give you a quake demo if you wish on how to use Chat GBT to produce AI images as well that you can use for your illustration. 6. Creating Consistent Characters with ChatGPT 4: Okay, so we're going to dive into creating consistent characters with AI with generative AI specifically. Now, in order to do so, you can use different AI platforms. So one is obviously Chat GBT, and there's also mid Journey, there's Leonardo AI. I'll probably cover a little bit of Chat GBT 40. But because I'm a big advocate of creating things for free, And I believe the reason why I'm an advocate for that is because not everyone has the opportunity to subscribe to AI tools that are out there or other graphic graphic design tools and programs out there as well. So I'm a big advocate for making resources available to the mass as much as possible. Of course, it's understandable that companies have to make their profits and what have you, but there's definitely workarounds so that at least you can leverage AI and use it as free as possible, especially since a lot of AI is still in the Beta phase, right? It's still in development. So Anyway, nevertheless, Here's the plan options that Open AI provides, actually. They do have a free option, of course, as perhaps I'm assuming most are familiar. But if you're not familiar, there is a free option, you pay nothing, and you do get assistance with writing, problem solving, et cetera. You have access to a GBT 35 and limited access to GBT 40. We're actually going to be using that today and I'll be showing you how to access and explore GBTs. Custom made GBTs, where you can create consistent characters with no issues. And you have limited access to other things like file uploading and so on. But if you wanted the Plus version, then you'll have unlimited access to many things, you can create your own custom GPTs, you can access them as much as you want, and you'll be able to generate as many images as you want. But the case of the free plant, unfortunately, you can't generate images. But if you did want to do so, you can definitely upgrade to the Plus, so I do want to make that clear. I'm going to show you how to do it with CT GPT. Like how to get to the point where you would generate an image. And if you want, you can certainly upgrade to Plus. Again, I'm an advocate of free products, but if you wanted to explore C GBT 40, then this is the way you would do it, if not, in the next video in the next lesson, I'll show you how to do it using Leonardo AI completely for free. Now, that's how I did it with Adam D Curious Engineer with my book. It was literally zero cost for me to create, publish and achieve a best selling rank for my book, my AI generated children's book. So you can do the same thing, but I still want to make sure I cover how to use C GBT. If you did want to invest and pay the $20, I'm going to show you how to upgrade, or rather, I'll show you how you can get to the point where you would be able to upgrade to the plus and generate as many images as you want in GBT four. Now, I will say for consistent characters, 40 is definitely top notch. If you don't want to deal with some of the issues that we may face with Leonardo AI, which I'll show you how to work around it. You will want to invest and you may want to rather invest and upgrade to the plus here in GPT. But if not, I can still show you how to do it with Leonardo AI, which is how I do it and achieve very consistent characters. And with some minor editing, you'll be able to embed it into a Canva platform and make the best out of it. But nevertheless, in order for you to create consistent characters with Chat GBT, you're going to want to go to this URL. Tb.com slash GBTs. I'll provide the link as a downloadable resource or an accessible resource. Then here you just go to Search GBTs, and then you're going to want to type in consistent character. The first one that comes up, which is the most popular is this one right here. Consistent character GBT, fast and high quality. We're going to click on that, and we're going to go ahead and start chat. All right, great. So here, because this is a custom chat GPT, it's already sort of pre programmed. You can click on this or you can start typing right away, but we're going to go ahead and follow the prompts. So click here to start creating character designs. I'm going to click on that. Okay. So first, should the character be male or female? In my case, I'm creating a female character in this case. Her name is Jana, right? But in my case here, I'm creating a female character here named Jena, as you know. So I'm going to type in female. And once I do that, it says fantastic, now can you provide a name for the character? And I'm going to say Jenna because that is the character name that I've chosen. Wonderful. Now, could you please provide me some details about Jenna? They want to know age, country, for instance, hair color style, outfit, any other characteristics. So I'm going to say something to the likes of the following. Jenna is a cute and smart young girl who enjoys art and has an interest in engineering. You can provide some details if you want. She has brown hair and brown is, for instance. You can specify any other characteristics that you wish. You can also specify age and is the age of ten, for instance. I'm going to go ahead and enter that in. It's going to say, great. Now I'll generate the first image of Jenna. Please hold on while I create it. Then it says, I tries to, tries to generate as you saw, but then it says, I can't create images right now, can I help you with something else? The reason why you can't is because you need a subscription, you need to get Chat GBT plus. This is how you would go about generating consistent characters using Chat GPT. And you could definitely take that approach. But if you want the free method, I'm going to go ahead and cover that in the next video. 7. Bringing Characters to Life with Leonardo AI: So continuing on with leveraging AI to illustrate our story, specifically for developing our visuals, our images that we'll be using throughout our pages on Canva. That will ultimately be part of our publication for our children's book. So Leonardo AI or Leonardo AI is what I used to generate the AI images, the pictures, the illustrations, for my book, Adam D Curious Engineer. And as you saw, they came out great. Excellent quality, beautiful work. You just have to make sure you know how to use a tool properly, which is what I will be going through right now. In this specific lesson, I'm going to show you how to create your character, specifically, your main character that you'll be using for your entire book, basically for every single one of your pages. Okay, so we're going to go ahead and go to this URL, Leonardo AI, and I'll provide the link. And then once you get here, you're going to click on Launch app. This isn't like a desktop app, it's just the actual URL app. So it's basically app Leonardo AI. Then when you get here, you're going to want to make sure that you create an account. You can do so by just logging in with your Google account or Apple account or whatever else that it supports, or you can just enter in your e mail address with a password. That's pretty straightforward. But once you're logged in, you have an account here and it gives you basically 150 tokens for free, because you can see there, that 150, right? So with that 150, what you can do is it'll allow you to generate a number of images completely for free. Now, the cool thing about this is it resets every say, 18 hours or so, sometimes a day, 24 hours from what I've noticed. But in most cases, next day, you wake up and you have another 150 tokens. So if you're like me and you like to develop, in piecemeal, this will work great for you. And it also allows you the time to develop your content better and work on other aspects of your book instead of just focusing on images all at once. We'll do that. Throughout this course, we'll develop AI generated images for the book that I'm working on, Gena the creative Engineer. Now, I'm going to start by going to image generation under AI tools. I'll click on image generation there. And then when I get here, I'm going to go ahead and click on legacy mode. Now, you don't have to go to legacy mode. The reason why I like to do so is because it already has my settings saved from the previous book that I worked on, specifically using a trained AI model that I'm used to. So I'm going to go ahead and click on Legacy model. And it also works great for like three D animation style. Work, which is what I'm favoring for my book. So as you can see here, one of the first things you may notice is the fine tuned model. So there's different options that you can select. Personally, I like the three D animation style, but there's many others. There's, for instance, Lighting Excel, there's anime, there's diffusion, Keno vision, and several others, different diffusion models. And these are all AI trained models. They're trained pre program that is to generate certain content for you. I'm going to stick with three D animation style. I'm going to also stick with Leonardo style, And then on your left hand side here, as I mentioned, you have how many tokens are available for the day. It does reset every day, which is great. And if you want, you can also buy, of course. But that's if you're interested in moving and accelerating your generative AI production faster, then you can buy tokens, and then you can generate your images a lot quicker and do so in one given day. But if you're comfortable with this, then you can just keep it at 1:50 every day and use it as such. Then you can select how many images you want. Depending on how many images you select, it's obviously going to use up more tokens, and we'll look at that in a second. Then there's different options here. There's like the photo reel. There's different virgins. This basically allows for hyper realistic photos, if you will. You don't have to use that. This is also another feature. So again, it's just an enhancement tool that you can use if you wish. I don't personally use these. There's also a prompt magic option there. There's transparency, which is still in the Beta phase, so how transparent you want it. And then if you want to make the image public or not. But in this case, by default, they are public. And that's fine. Here's your image dimensions. Now, there is a little note there that says for the selected model that we've chosen, it's been trained at a specific dimension. Specifically 640 by 832 will give us the best results rendered at this resolution. I'm going to go ahead and stick with that. I'm going to stick with the 640 by 832. That's what I'm going to select there. Okay. And those are pretty much the majority of the settings that we care about right now. There are other advanced ones. But let's go ahead and start prompting. Okay? So I'm going to start with creating our character for the book. So again, I'm working on Jenna, the creative engineer. So I want to prompt the AI image generation tool to basically create that for me to create an image of gender, the creative engineer. So I'm going to say something like this, and I'll provide basically like a syntax of the prompt or different prompts that you can use for Leonardo AI that I have been proven to be successful at least in my experience. So I'm going to say something like this. A cute young girl with long brown hair and brown eyes. She loves art and engineering. I also should specify the age. So acute, say, 6-year-old young girl with long brown hair and brown eyes. She loves art and engineering. So again, I can select how many images I want generated so I can pick whatever I want. Oh, actually, to upgrade, you need to rather, if you want to select the amount of images you want, you actually do need to upgrade. So by default actually gives you four. Okay? And that's fine. That's actually something that they've changed recently. This is something I also keep in mind that Leonardo AI and AI tools in general, you know, they do change some things as they go along. So do keep that in mind. But let's go ahead and generate our images here. I'm going to click Generate. It's going to use up four tokens, which really isn't bad. It's actually pretty generous, if I may say, because I'm still left with 146 tokens after that. And there she is. There is Jenna the creative engineer. Okay? So it's given us four different images. Let's take a look at them. So I think that looks you know, pretty good there. Now, you always want to look out for, like, you know, AI mistakes, AI faults. I've noticed there's been issues like extra fingers sometimes. You know, there could be, you know, sometimes an eye could be one of the eyes could be cross eyed, things like that. But in this case, I actually think this photo here looks good. You know, let's look at the next one. So, as you can see, this one looks disproportional, at least it's cut off here, right? So the legs are like nonexistent. It's on the floor. But I think you could still use this image because if you at least, you know, crop it from here, I think it's completely fine because you can take everything from, you know, knee up or above the knee up, which is okay. That would work. So do keep these things in mind. AI is not perfect. And that goes with any AI tool, by the way. It's not just Leonardo AI. Chat GBT 40, Leonardo AI, mid journey. You have to filter it out for faults. And in some cases, you need to edit accordingly, which is something that I will show you how to do as well. For my initial book, Adam D Curious Engineer, I did have to do a significant amount of editing, and that's fine. That's just where AI is right now. And that will improve in the future. But the cool thing is the four images that I see here, for the most part are very useful. Now, if I want more, I can certainly, go ahead and click Generate again because I do want to get, like, sort of a log of different AI generated images for my character, because, again, I want consistency. Now, another thing that I'm looking for is consistency. So are the eyes the same color? The hair, is it the same color? Is it the same length? You know, even if it's not, you're going to have to demonstrate that you know, in your book, she's aging. She's getting older with time. So let's look at these over here. So far, the character looks very consistent to me. You know, things are looking good. So the brown hair, brown eyes are consistent, the face, the look, you know, of the child, overall structure looks pretty consistent, and that's a great sign. I'm just going to go ahead and generate this one more time because I want a good amount of these images. And as you can see, I still have a bunch of tokens. I mean, I just generated another four, and I'm at 138. So, the cool thing is also is it keeps all your images here, so you have a generation history that just keeps everything for you. Alright. So here we have a few others. You can see one here, two, three. Now, I may not use this one because I feel like the face is more round. So I'm probably going to reject that photo. So do keep an eye on consistency, right? Because that is one of the key things that we're aiming for. So this is interesting. It says this image might be explicit. Let's see what it shows, and why it even says it's explicit. Now, I don't know if I see anything that's specifically explicit. But I think that's a general warning that AI Put Serfi detects something. Now. Again, you're dealing with a train model. I don't really necessarily see anything wrong in this image per se. But I think that's fine. Alright, so that's how you create a main character. In the next part, I'm going to show you how to create pages or to create illustrations, images that you can further use in your book that would match the content that we've developed in Chat GBT, basically like the story or the story line of the book. So we're going to go ahead and look at that next. 8. Visualizing Your Story: AI Driven Illustration Techniques (Part 1): All right. So continuing on. Now that we've established our main character in this case, Jenna, you're going to want to do the same on your end using Leonardo AI or whatever tool that you wish, whether it's CheB 40 or Leonardo AI. As I mentioned, I recommend Leonardo AI, especially if you're looking for a free method. And what we're going to do is we're now going to take the content of the book and try to develop images for it accordingly. So the image that I have right now is just the main character, but I want to go ahead and proceed and develop images or generate images that are based on each of the content mentioned here for each page. Okay, so I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to copy this over. Just the part where it says, Loves to draw bright pictures in her notebook. And I'm going to show you why I'm copying that part. So I'm going to go ahead back to Leonardo AI to the AI image generation section. And where we put As you saw the prompt, we mentioned to generate a cute, 6-year-old young girl with long brown hair and brown eyes who loves art and engineering. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to get rid of that part. She loves art and engineering. Or you know what I can even keep that because there's no harm in it, and I'm going to add she loves to draw bright pictures in her notebook. You can say that or you can say something like this. She loves art and engineering. And she is drawing bright pictures in her notebook. So she loves art engineering, and she is drawing bright pictures in her notebook. Let's go ahead and generate that and see how it looks. So when I click Generate, now, as you know, it does take a few seconds. But what I'm hoping for is that it gives me generated images rather that I can choose from where she is drawing something where I can use it to depict that. She's essentially thinking like an engineer, right? Or she's building engineering curiosity. Okay. So I'm going to go ahead and click on this and see what we got. So this is interesting. She looks like she's laying either on the floor or on a desk, and she's standing on top of a book, and she has some utensils, markers, and a few tools around her. So that's a potential. Here's another one. Again, as you go along, you want to make sure the character looks consistent. From what I see so far looks good. Again, she's on the book here. I like this one a lot because here she's actually like holding the book. So this one is great. This looks good. We might actually end up using that one. And this one is very nice, too, because here she's actually, you know, she has, like, a pen or pencil or marker, and she's actually drawing something and looking straightforward. So that's great. I think we can actually make use of one of these four, and they should suffice for that one. So let's go ahead and take our next one. So the next one is she sketches a solar panel, wondering how it captures sunlight to create energy. Okay. So I don't need to put this whole part, wonder how it captures sunlight to create energy, but I'm just going to say she sketches a solar panel. And I can use one of the pictures that I've already generated, for that page, but I'm going to go ahead and just add it and see what it gives me. Okay? And she sketches a solar panel. Okay. So I might want to mention she sketches a solar panel in a book. Just to be a little bit more specific. So while that's generating, I want to go here. And the next one is that she learns that solar panels use sunlight to produce electricity, right? So I can mention that she's around solar panels, right? Her surrounding is solar panels or something like that. So let's take a look here. All right. So you know, this is interesting. Kind of almost looks like a solar panel. In her book there. I see squares. So that's good. I don't think I'd be able to use this one because she's not really doing anything in it. So I'll probably reject that, and I'll reject this one as well. But I do believe that I can use one of these two right here. Probably this one. This one looks fitting, but we'll take a look at other options. All right. The next one that I want is, I want her to actually be around solar panels now. So she's drew it and I want her to k be around it to see it. She loves art and engineering. And stands looking at a solar panel. Okay. So she's going to be standing there and she'll be looking at a solar panel hopefully with some interest or curiosity is what we're hoping for. And you can mention that too. So stands looking at a solar panel with curiosity. But you can just say stands and looks at a solar panel. Let's see if it gives us anything good. So this case, I don't see anything good here. The character consistency is good. So there's a solar panel behind her, but she's not really looking at it, right? So I don't really like these. We're going to try again. And that's okay. You know, with the case of prompting the AI image generation, it's completely fine to try a few times. So stands looking stands looks at a solar panel with curiosity. And I'm going to go ahead and run that again. And let's see what that gives us. So we can do this for basically every single page as we go along. But the idea is to prompt accordingly for each page that you want. So let's see if we find something good here. All right. So I don't see anything necessarily good here. It looks like there may be some solar panels in the back there, and she is looking at something, but it's not too clear that she's looking at solar panels. So I don't like it either. We're going to go ahead and keep trying. So, you're just going to want to keep generating and playing around with it. Sometimes you got to try more than once. Okay, so I went ahead and generated a few more times. I also modified the prompt slightly. So instead of mentioning that she is interested in engineering an art, I remove that part for now because I'm more interested in just having her standing by a solar panel with curiosity, because that's what this page will really be focusing on that she's. It's going to state Jenna learns that solar panels use sunlight to produce electricity. So I want something that depicts that. I think the best two or three that I've came across so far, I think maybe well, the problem with this one is the hair isn't long enough because my main character, Jenna, the creative engineer, has long brown hair. Member of consistency is key here. I think this one is pretty good. You know, something like this. I think this one came out great with her and a solar panel next to her. The other one that I feel came out pretty good would be perhaps, where is it? I think this one is not bad as well. So there's a solar panel there by a home. I think those two probably would be my best bet for that specific page. So I can pick between one of those two. There are a few other options, but I think I've generated enough for this page. And it does take a little patience. You have to try a few times, generated a number of times until you find the one that you like most, and I think that's okay. It's part of the game. So you're going to want to essentially keep doing this for every page. So I've done it for the first two, three pages here. You're going to keep doing this for the rest of the pages. We'll try another one just to build that level of understanding and consistency in the next video lesson. 9. Visualizing Your Story: AI Driven Illustration Techniques (Part 2): Okay, so now that we've generated images for the first three pages of the book, let's go ahead and try another example. So the first three pages had to do with sort of the same, you know, topic or the same category of technology, which in this case, was about solar panels. The next one is about a water dam. So page four and five have to do with drawing a water dam, where she thinks about how it controls floods and generates power. And then page five, as you can see, she discovers that dam store water and use it to produce electricity. So we're going to go ahead and Modify this to show that she draws a water dam in her book. So it's really important to keep this part of the prompt throughout your production. You can increase the age as you like, which I will do later on. But for now, we're going to keep her young at six and eventually will boost her up to eight and ten. So let's go ahead and generate this. What we're aiming for again, is consistency. We want to make sure that the images are valid, that there's no fault, there's no major faults, and what's being developed makes sense. Okay, so she draws a water dam in her book. So Obviously, that's not something we can use. Neither is this. We didn't say that we want her in a little water dam or whatever it is. Now, this one, interestingly, if she had longer hair would have been applicable, but not for drawing the water dam, perhaps for one of the other ones where she's thinking about how water dam works. Here. This might work. But again, we're aiming for that longer here. I mean, her hair is pretty long there. So it might work, but we can try again. Again, the process of, you know, regeneration in this case, right? So the art of persuasion and prompt engineering is necessary here, and we want to keep prompting until we get something that makes sense and is approachable for our case. Okay, let's see what she's drawing. So it looks like she's drawing something related. This may work. So she's sitting on her book again here. Kind of like this one because she has more than one book out. Yeah, it shows that she's thinking, pondering. So one of those may work. We're going to keep those for now. You know, obviously there's definitely more that we can do there, but we're going to keep those for now. Let's look at the next thing. The next thing is she discovers that dams store water and use it to produce electricity. So we're going to say, she stands in an area where there is a water dam. Okay. So now we want Jenna, the creative engineer to take what she's done in writing and sort of it, live the moment. So that's the idea from the book's perspective. It's kind of for her to stand behind a water dam. Okay? So here we have an option. This is another option here, which I think this one might actually work well, where she's standing behind a water dam. This one seems reasonable. I don't see any faults in it. This one isn't bad as well. Seems like she might be a little taller here, but I think it might work as well as an option, and there's another option. Great. So I'm going to generate one more time. But ultimately, as I mentioned, You want to keep doing this for all of the pages. So as you can see here, she's sketching a robotic arm and then finds out that robotic arms use motors and sensors to operate. So you want to make sure that you make your prompt appropriate to make sense with the content. Always focus on how can I make the images make sense with the content that has been produced. Right? And we're going to keep going down and do the same for all of them. Until we get to the very end of our book. So here are a few other options that can be considered, so her standing behind Order Dam. So those are other options that we can wish to use and include in the book. So next, I'm going to show how to in a case where you are building a series and you want consistent characters that show up in your series. I'm going to show you how to integrate an AI image that includes more than one character, one from your previous book, let's say, and one from the current book that you're working on. In this case, we're going to do it with Adam the Curious engineer and Jenna the creative engineer, and we're going to have them show up in an image together. We'll do that in the next session. 10. Designing and Illustrating Two Key Characters for Your Book: Okay, so after we've went through all the pages and we're satisfied and happy with the image generation for every single page that we're going to be using to build our interior for the paperback and e book version. Then what we're going to do now is, I'm going to show you how to take a character from a previous book that's part of your series, and integrate it into an image that has a character from the current book that you're working on. So in my case, I've developed the main character in my previous book, Adam, the Curious Engineer, as I've mentioned, and my new character is Jenna the creative engineer. And I'm going to merge them, integrate them in one image. And we want that generated. So we have to prompt that accordingly. Now, let's look at what's mentioned on page 28 here. So one day, JenNet meets Adam, the Curious engineer, and they decide to draw a solar powered car together. It looks like I just need to generate an image where Net and Adam are drawing together. It doesn't even have to necessarily depict them drawing a solar powered car together. It's just them drawing together. So here we're going to say, as well as a Q again, 6-year-old This some we're going to say young boy with black hair and brown eyes are drawing in a book together. Okay. And let's see what that gives us when we generate it. So Acute 6-year-old young girl with long brown hair and brown eyes, as well as Acute 6-year-old young boy with black hair and brown eyes are drawing in a book together. Now, we don't know what to expect, but let's see what the AI will give us. If it doesn't make sense, we have to try again. Sometimes it makes absolutely no sense. But that's where the process of refinement comes into place. So I don't like this. I mean, you do have a adam looking figure in the back, but it doesn't really look like Adam. Definitely don't like these. Oh, Part of the problem is it also gave him long hair, which isn't what we wanted because that's not what the character has. In the back here on the right, that looks like Adam a little bit. So we're going to go ahead and modify accordingly again. I had to modify the prompt a bit, and what I've done is I put there are only two people in the image because in some cases, it was giving me more than two people, it was give me like three. I put afterwards, a cute 6-year-old young girl with long brown hair and brown eyes. That represents the Genda character and a cute 6-year-old young boy with short black hair and brown eyes. That's Adam. And they are both drawing in a book together. I did get a few hits, a few ones that could potentially be used. So this is one option right here where you have Adam and Jenna sitting together with books underground, showcasing that they're working together and drawing each drawing in their own book together. So that's one option. Another option that I found would be something like this where they're both standing next to each other, and Jenna is the only one holding a book, and Adam is accompanying her. So that's another option. Again, you can play around and generate as much as you want. But back to the Chat GBT, where I have the script of what I'm going to be using to create and publish the book. You'll see here that in page 28, I wanted Jenna to meet Adam. And for them to draw something together. And then afterwards, they would go ahead play and build a toy car together. And ultimately, I'll decide if I want Jenna O on the last page or Jenna and Adam. But anyway, this was just to show that you can take a consistent character in this case, Jenna, and you can link her to sort of be integrated or merged with a previous consistent character that you had in a former series, and it just takes the right prompt and, you know, just kind of re prompting regeneration until you get it right. And then we'll next look at how to put this all together, take the text and put it with the images in Canva and develop all our pages for our paperback version. 11. Enhancing Your Illustrations: Advanced AI Features for Books: All right, so when using Leonardo AI, there's some other features that we haven't covered yet, which you can use to maximize sort of your potential for best results when generating images for your book illustrations. And one of them is the prompt magic feature here on the left hand side. So this feature is actually pretty helpful. It basically provides higher contrast. So if you're looking for better quality images, then you're going to want to use that. Of course, it is going to end up using more tokens because there's more generative work being done in the background. But I think it's worth it. So you'll be dealing with, you know, better quality photos, illustrations that you can use in your book. And I tend to go back and forth. So if you want my personal recommendation, I go back and forth between, you know, using a prompt magic feature and just kind of going without it. And I like to get that mixture so you can kind of do the same But the prompt magic feature really is useful, so you'll get higher contrast photos and you'll also increase the strength of the prompt. So the prompt in itself will be taken more into consideration, and that's in regards to its specifics that are mentioned. So let's keep that one on, and I'll show you a demo of how it looks to use the prompt magic feature as opposed to what we've been doing so far, which hasn't been using that feature much. There's also the transparency feature here. So this transparency feature is in Beta mode, but I think it's helpful. I use it sometimes as well. This basically will remove backgrounds or will make it transparent essentially. And if you want the best results when enabling this feature, you don't want to specify a background in your prompt. So you don't want to say, for instance, hey, give me a force background or whatever because then it will still try to generate a background, even though you have the transparency feature on. So if you want to use this feature, it's fine, and it can be helpful, but don't specify a background in the prompt. Some of the other things that we'll be trying differently right now with the illustrations. And this is just to show you different options that you have is the image dimensions. So we've been using 640 times 832 for three d for the three d animation style. But you can use different dimensions, although that's the one that's recommended for this specific model. I personally think that if you want to try the 1024 by 768, it works pretty well. You will get a warning that it's not optimal, but from my experience, it works just fine, and in fact, can be really useful when integrating into Canva, because when you expand the size of your image onto your pages in Canva, it fits pretty well. And the quality The contrast of the photos or the illustrations are still great. So I recommend using that as another alternative if you don't want to do this 640 times 832. It just depends. You can kind of play around with the dimensions, but we'll look at the 1024 by 768. Alright, so there's other pretty neat features now, not all of them are covered by the free plan. Some of them are. So there's also this ad negative prompt feature, which basically allows you to type things that you don't want to see in your image. So, for instance, AI sometimes will once in a while, it'll you know output or generate like an extra human or an extra face, right? So you can kind of specify that, hey, I don't want more than one human. I don't want more than one person in the image. You know, even though you've only specified one person, it may add an additional person because it's trying to compliment your illustration. So if you want to specifically you know, mention that you don't want any other people. You can do that here. Okay? So that's another cool feature. And then there's also, like the image guidance, which is off right now, but you can basically embed or upload an image, and it gives you sort of a starting point of an image, and you can kind of play around with that image and modify it. And it can have a starting point to you know, your generative work. And then there's also prompt generation. So this tool right here will allow you to get more ideas on a basic idea. So you could start with like a basic prompt idea here and enter it. And then when you click this button here, it'll help you present or sort of bring about new ideas for you. So that's another option as well. Okay. So we're going to go ahead and just click on this Generate button with the prompt that we have here, and the prompt states it reads a cute 6-year-old young girl with long brown hair and brown eyes. She draws a picture of a drone in her book and shows it off. Now, remember, I'm working on a book titled China the Creative Engineer, and it's going to depict illustrate a young girl who is interested in engineering, and she's going to be drawing. She's also artistic. So she'll be drawing engineering concepts and presenting it, right? And then that will sort of be complemented with adventures that she goes on, engineering related adventures. Okay, so let's go ahead and generate this and see how it comes out with some of these new features that we're adding, like the prompt magic, for instance. So we'll leave the transparency off for now, but at least we will keep that the prompt magic feature on. So I've already clicked generate. Let's go back and see what the outcome is on that. Okay. So we're going to go back here. We're going to go to image generation, and there we go. All right. So I already generated for us. So we're looking for the young girl. Who is basically presenting a picture of her drawing a drone. So some of them might look good, others may not work for us. So obviously, some of these have issues, some of them might work for us. But, you know, you have to take into account some of the issues that you might find with AI, such as, it looks like there's like an extra arm here. You don't want to work with that. The hand here looks backwards, so you don't want to use that. So these are all things that you can enhance and fix. This has, like an extra hand, which wouldn't work for us as well. This one almost looks normal, except you have a drone sort of in the background. So it would have been ideal if the drone was on the books. So you have to be a little bit more specific, but you do see that the contrast of the images are better. They're far more enhanced. So we're going to try to generate that one more time. Alright, so let's see what that gave us. So here we go. Alright, so this one might work a little bit better, so you do actually have drones you know, on inside the book. You know, we kind of edited out as well. So I'll show you how to edit the actual images as well in Canva. So this isn't like the final look, right? This is only a starting point. You have to think of it that way. And obviously, you can see there's some marks on her face. All of that can be edited out with ease and Canva. But what we're using Leonardo AI for is a starting point, right? We need something to work with as an illustration. We can tamper with it. So I think this kind of image can work, so we'll just download it. And I've generated other ones. I actually kind of like this one because she's presenting the whole book two pages or really just the full book. So that's good. That's favorable. There's some other ones here. I don't like that one. This one. I don't really know about that. We can consider it. There's another one here, but it's not really demonstrating the book, the internal or the interior of the book. And there's also a drone flying in the middle of nowhere. So I'm not sure if we want to use that. We can always edit those out by the way. That's just a demonstration of that feature. The other thing that I'm going to demonstrate is, say for instance, you have some images that were generated, but you want to remix them or you want to fine tune them. Say, for instance, I look at this one and I like it. She's looking at a wind turnbine. But the wind turnbine, I want to improve the look of that. I want to just regenerate and try again. So what I can do is I can actually remix this. So there's a way where we can actually, if you go back, and we go to our personal feed. And then if you look for the specific image that you want to remix, and give me any image you want. Let's actually maybe consider L et's try this one. So say, for instance, I want to remix this one, okay? A I simply need to do at this point is click on the remix button. Okay? So I'm going to go ahead and click remix, and when I do that, what it does is it copies over the prompt here automatically. And it also sets all the settings automatically. That I have initially set for it. So it's a quick way to, you know, sort of grab the configurations of a specific image illustration that I want to regenerate images for. Alright, so this is the remixed version of that prompt, and some of them came out pretty nice looking, and they can be useful. So again, a lot of these we can take in Canva and edit. So this one is interesting. I'm just going to go ahead and download this image right here. And that's the process of taking an image and remixing it. So within the Leonardo AI platform in the environment here, there's a bunch of different options. You kind of want to see what fits better. As you can see, when we have when we enabled the prompt magic feature, for instance, we were able to get more enhanced higher contrast images. So you can kind of play back and forth, play around with the settings and see what fits best for your children's book.