Designing Your Children's Book Pages with Canva and AI

1. Welcome to Designing Your Children's Book Pages with Canva and AI!: Hi there. Welcome to designing your children's book pages with Canva and AI. I'm Professor Higazi and this course is the second part of my creating a children's book with AI series, which you can find on my skill share profile. If you haven't yet generated your illustrations, check out the first course crafting your children's book story and illustrations with AI. But if you already have your illustrations or want to dive straight into designing engaging book interiors, then this class is perfect for you. In this course, you'll learn how to use Canva to master margins and layouts specifically for children's books. Edit AI generated images to fit seamlessly into your pages and keep character illustrations consistent. I'll also guide you through creating a copyright page, adding book content generated with AI and incorporating images directly in your book interior. Let's bring your children's book to life. I'll see you in the first lesson. 2. Mastering Margins for Children's Books: Before we proceed, the first thing we need to do is we need to set up our interior pages for our children's book. Now, the reason why it's important to take care of the interior prior to doing the book cover is because you can't necessarily start with the book cover, and it's for several reasons, mainly because you need to know how many pages that you're going to be developing first, because the number of pages will dictate, you know, the book size and sort of the formatting of it. Which I will get into in more detail. And then the other thing is, you have to determine if you want the book to be with bleed or without bleed, and you need to set the exact margin sizes accordingly. So all of those things will sort of, again, dictate the final size of your book cover. They're contingent on each other, essentially. And so to proceed, the first thing you want to do is we need to identify a few things about the interior of your book. So you can go here on ktplat amazon.com under the help topics. There's a section that talks about setting the trim size, you know, if you want bleed or not for your book and the margins. I'll provide a link for this. I'll provide a link for this in the course description. I'll provide a link for this in the topic of this video. I'll provide a link for this in I'll provide the link for this. You'll be able to download it as a resource. So what we want to look at, let's start with Bleed. The first thing that we want to determine is, do you want your children's book to bleed or not? So what does that mean? Well, Bleed is basically, do you want your children's book to take up the entire page without any white border around it. So if you select no bleed, which is on the left side here, you're going to basically have a white space, sort of like an edge around your entire page. Whereas, if you do bleed, then any images, graphics, background, what have you will bleed. It will take up the entire space and there won't be any white border. So I recommend for a children's book, you do want bleed, and it makes sense for a children's book because, you know, you're dealing with illustrations and graphics, and for children, you generally want to take up the entire page so that it's visually appealing. So that's the first thing is deciding if you want bleed or not for children's book, I recommend going with bleed. So for our purpose, we're going to go ahead and go with bleed. I recommend you do the same. Then when the next thing you want to do is determine the page size, okay? So there's two options here, kdplat amazon.com, and then there's another one dot JP that's actually for Japan. If you're in Japan, then you would select that option, but since, you know, in most cases, all of you will be using the amazon.com if you're not in Japan. And you're going to go and look at this table here and determine if you want to determine what your trim size is for your interior, for the interior of your book pages. So there's really no right or wrong answer here. It just depends on what you want, you know, the size of your children's book. I showed my book earlier. This specific book that I created and published is an 8.5 by 8.5 ", okay? So I would say that that's a good option for a children's book. So this is the size right here if you want to take a look at how, you know, it appears. But I would recommend, you know, doing something of the like, but it's up to you. It's completely up to you. You know, I've seen children's books that are 8.25 by six, 8.5 by 11. I've even seen smaller ones. It depends on what you want. So, for our purposes, we're going to go with the 8.5 by 8.5, the last row here. And now, remember, we want page size with bleed. So essentially, we'll actually be taking these measurements right here. Okay? So let's take note of these values because those are your settings for the page margins. Now, the next thing we need to do is actually go and log into Canva. So this is canva.com right here. I'll leave a link as well so you can access it. You can just click on it as a resource. And once you get to canva.com, if you're not familiar with it, it's basically a design platform where you can design videos. You can design different graphics. You can design fliers, posters, logos, you name it. So it all depends what you want to design. And there's different options in terms of the plans that they provide. Now, I'm when it comes to the work we do, I'm a big advocate of providing free tools and resources. So I'll show you what you can do to make the best out of that. You do have a free Canva option here. I don't recommend sticking with the free if you're dealing with, you know, producing a children's book because you're very limited as to what you can produce. It's certainly possible, but you're limited with the graphical elements and a lot of the cool features. It's very doable, by the way, but I don't recommend it. I would recommend that you get the P. The cool thing is about the P is you can sign up for a free, 30 day trial. So I would say, give it a shot, Produce, you know, at least your first children's book under the Canva Pro so you can have access to all the cool design tools and graphics and features. And then after you've developed the first one, if you want to stick with the free and develop more children's books, but certainly you can do that, or you can just, you know, go ahead and pay the, you know, subscription amount that you wish, monthly or annually. So, I have a I'm on the 30 day trial right now with Canva. So I'm going to go ahead and proceed. Now, what I want to do is I want to create a design, okay? So let's go back to the main page, actually. So here's canva.com. Once you're logged into Canva, you may want to create an account. What you would just simply follow the instructions to create an account, I think you can just create it with Google or your Microsoft account or anything that you want, any email address you may have. So I'm going to go ahead and click Create a design. And when I do that, once I click Create a design, I'm going to click on Custom Size. It's very important that you select Custom Size, because remember, we're basing our page size, our interior off of this table per the Amazon KDP site that instructs us the margin settings or the page size settings. And remember, we're going with bleed, okay, with the with bleed options, so we need to make sure that we select the appropriate size. So here we're going to go with 8.625 rather, and 8.75. Okay, so I'm going to enter that in now. It's very important that you select inches IN, okay, very, very important. So we said 8.625 and the height is 8.75. And I'm going to go ahead and click on Create New Design. So once I'm here, you're going to want to make sure that you see let me just hide this for now. You're going to want to make sure that you see your rulers on, you know, your vertical and horizontal rulers. And if you don't, you can simply press Shift R, and it would either show or hide it, okay? So Shift plus R. You press those together. Alright. So, once we're here, we're going to want to create our margins. And in order to do that, we need to now go back to our help topic page here and go down and look at what the margins should be. So here's a table that will essentially give us that information that we need. And again, this goes to further explain or prove why you need to design your interior first before the book cover because it all depends on how many pages you have. Now, generally speaking, for a children's book, I don't think you want to, you know, develop more than 150 pages. That's very excessive. In fact, a lot of children's books that go more than 50 pages usually get bad reviews because they're set to be too lengthy for a children's book. So you're going to want to make sure that, you know, I would say you're within 24 to 50 pages. That's my recommendation. As a matter of fact, to publish on Amazon KDP, you need a minimum of 24 pages anyway. So we're going to go with this 24 to 150 pages. And remember, we're looking at width bleed for the outside margins. So we're looking at 0.35 ", and it says, at least, so it could be more, okay? You just can't be less than that. And for the inside margins, it's the same regardless if it's bleed or not. It's going to be 0.375. So easy enough, we're going to go with that. So keep that number in mind, 0.375, okay? So we're going to go here back to Canva. What we want to do is you want to grab, let's start with the one to the very left. Grab your margin, as you can see, I just grabbed it from here and I'm going to pull it all the way across, drag it across. And remember, we want 0.375. Now, you can go a little bit over. It doesn't matter, but you want something close to. So if you're having trouble, you know, getting the right margin size, you can actually just zoom in, and it actually helps you, you know, sort of, like, fine tune a little bit, and you can get close to that, okay? So here, I'm at 0.377. I personally like to be a perfectionist, so I'm going to try to get that 0.375. Okay, so I got it to 0.375, which is great. So now what I'm going to do is I'm going to go over to the left side here and I'm going to click on elements. And I want to go to shapes. I'm going to grab that very first shape here, just a little square. And what I want to do is I want to bring that down uh, something around here. Let's see if that's good enough. Let me zoom in a little bit. Helps. And let's see if that's the right size there. So that looks to be good. And you just want to make sure that, you know, it's the correct size here for the margin. So if it's not, then, you know, you would just shape it accordingly. And typically, it's like, around 0.4 width and height, more or less. So, again, if you're going a little over, it's fine. It's just you don't want to go under. So I'm going to copy and paste that, and I'm going to move this so that I can bring it up to the top here. And this will now help me bring my top margin, bring that down. So that's looking at 0.391, which is fine. Again, it doesn't have to be exactly 0.375. It could be a tiny bit over. And I'm going to go ahead and paste again. And I want to bring another square here. I could just take this one actually and move it across. It doesn't really matter. But for the purpose of the course, I'm just creating individual ones, and I'm going to bring this down, so that's 8.250 that looks accurate. And then we need one more. So I'm going to take this, and this needs to go down here. So I'm going to grab this square, bring it down. And again, we need that margin. So grab it from the ruler, bring it down, and there we go. It looks good. And there you have it. So now we are in a position where we can delete these tiny little squares. So I'm going to go ahead and delete these. And at this point, that takes care of our book interior. So if we add any page afterwards, it will basically bring those margin settings along, and you can create as many pages as you want now with those margin settings, which allows us to go ahead and proceed with the next step. 3. Incorporating Images in Your Book Interior Using Canva: Alright, so now that we have all our illustrations from Leonardo AI, the next step would be to actually take those illustrations and drop them into Canva, where we can develop our pages for our children's book. So the way you want to do this is first compile all the images into a folder. So I've created a folder here called Gene the Creative Engineer Images. And these are just some of the images that I have generated with Leonardo AI, which I am highly considering in using in my book. I haven't fully decided which ones I'm going to use, but I have a good idea of at least 20 to 30 of them that I'm extremely interested in. And what I've done is from the ones that I'm more interested in, I created a subfolder called Images within This folder, and these are the ones that I'm considering even more. Okay? So what I'm going to do is I've decided that I'm going to use these five for sure. And these will be my first five pages, or at least that's what I'm intending. So I'm going to go ahead and show you how to create these first five pages to start with. So let's go ahead and do that. Okay, so the way you want to go about doing this, is we're going to take those images, the five images that I'm referring to, and we're simply going to select them all. So we're going to select one, two, three, four, five, hold chif down, and click on the fifth one there. I'm going to just drag and drop it here into Canva. Okay. And then once I've done that, I'm now ready to start using those images. Now, as you may recall, we've already set up our margins here in Canva, so everything is already set up and ready to go. It's just a matter of actually taking those illustrations, dropping them in, and creating our pages. So I like this page or this image right here to be to be included in our first page. So what I'm going to, I'm just going to drop it here. I'm going to center it. You want to make sure that it's fully centered. And then I'm going to expand it enough so that it covers the borders. Now, remember, we did select the bleed option. Okay? So I'm going to just drop that all the way down and also from the very top, lift it all the way up so that it covers it holistically. Okay. So so that's going to be our first page, essentially now. I can double click here, and once I double click, I can shift this around as I like, okay? So I think I want to show, you know, the cup with the pencils, the pencil holder. I want to show the pencil holder. Yeah, I want to show the pencil holder and all the utensils on here. So I think I'm going to make it look something like this. Alright, so that's the first page. And next step, obviously, which we'll look at in the next lesson, would be to actually add text on here. But before we do that, let's add some more images so I can demonstrate how to edit some of the images as well. So page two, will be this one. So this is where she's going to start introducing her idea on solar panels. So the first page is just going to kind of, you know, demonstrate that she has a liking towards drawing and specifically drawing technical ideas, right, or engineering concepts. So she likes drawing. She's interested in it. So the text will say something like that. This next page will begin her artistic journey, if you will. So I'm going to expand this and my aim for this page is to show that she's starting to draw some artwork relating to her field of interest that is engineering. So I'm gonna explain this all the way. And then, again, I can just maneuver this as I like, so I kind of want to show more of the book. So I might do something like that. And I'll show you when you add text, how to make it transparent, also. So we'll be looking at those later because you might be wondering, well, how are we going to put text behind these, you know, large images? Which, by the way, you don't have to so a lot of these images are close up, and that's because that's the children's book Niche that I'm aiming for. That's the age group that I'm aiming for. I'm aiming for large print, high quality images. But you can certainly shrink down your images. It just depends what you want the AI to generate. So our third page is going to now be her living the adventure behind her artwork, okay? So the prior page showed her drawing solar panels. This page will show how she's actually behind solar panels or she's sort of amused by solar panel design on a home. So, again, I can kind of shift this over. So notice that there's a person in the background. I don't like that. I want her to be the only one in this case, so I'm going to kind of just crop her out, okay? So something like that. And it still demonstrates the solar panels in the background on the roof of the home. So that's perfect. And some of these images were generated using the high contrast feature that I did show. There in the previous video lesson. Alright, so this is coming together. So we already have three pages here. Let's go ahead and add two more. So the next one will be her drawing a picture of a drone. So that's her next artistic idea on, you know, her interest in sort of the technical aspects of how a drone works. So I'm going to expand this and make sure it takes up the whole page. Now, I definitely don't like the drone on this paper here. So I'm going to find a way to get rid of that. Okay? So that's not going to work. And I also see that, you know, there's, you know, like, extra fingers on the bottom there, which I don't know where that's coming from. So we're also going to crop that out. So what you can do is you can actually expand this further so that it completely cuts that off. And then what you can do is you can bring this that way. So then now you have something that is more realistic where she's demonstrating a picture. You can probably even shift it a little bit more so that you get more of the picture. Okay, so I like that. This is her holding up a picture. Now, what I'm going to dough I'm going to show you how to edit this, okay? Because I don't want this drone. This doesn't really make sense. So let me show you how to go about editing this. What we're going to do is we're going to click on Edit Image. And then we'll go to the magic eraser feature. Okay? So click on Magic eraser. You can select the brush size, which increases the diameter of the brush. So, for instance, obviously, if I make it large, then the brush size will increase. Now I'm going to do something like probably 31, maybe a little more, S 40. And then I'm going to highlight everything that I want to remove from this image. And I don't want this drone here. I want to remove it because I don't think it fits well. It doesn't look good with the page that she has holding up. So I'm going to click as, and the AI in the background should do the work. There you go. It removes most of it. So you might have to kind of clean it up a little bit because as you can see, there's some dark spots, but that's not a problem. You might have to even shrink down the brush size a little bit and then zoom in and see if you can grab all the areas that have been missed to make sure that you don't go over. I also don't like this little logo here. I don't think that's necessary, so we can get rid of that, as well. And then we also do have some, you know, little dark area there. So just remove that as well. And let's click on Race. And the goal is to, you know, make it as clean as possible. So I think that looks pretty good. There's still a little darkness there, so you can again, make the brush size even smaller, if you wish. So bring that down to, like, seven, and just barely touch the border, make sure that you don't go over, but you want to just, like, touch it there. And let's see if that does it for us. Now it doesn't have to be perfect, but I think that's close enough. Yeah, so that looks good. Definitely like that a lot. I also see that there's this little thing up down on the top and I'm not really sure what that is. But I don't want that either, so I'm going to go ahead and just remove this little stuff over here, and that should take care of it on the first go, hopefully. So let's erase that. And again, it doesn't have to be perfect. You can always refine later, but just to kind of demonstrate removing things like, you know, unwanted parts in your image. So that looks a lot better. So now what you can do is you can add your own drone. Image, right? So what you can do here is you can click on elements, and then you'll click on you'll type in drone for instance, and you'll go to graphics. And then under graphics, you can select your own drone photos. So I can click this one for instance, and I can expand this. Lo and behold, I have my own drone image. Okay? That's an example there, okay? And there's many others like it. So you don't have to necessarily use that one, right? There's other ones, okay? So there's many images that you can incorporate here. And if you keep looking, you'll find even more and more. Okay? So there's another one right here, for instance. So there's many options for you. You can even use Magic Media, which is a feature here, and you can have it create one for you using a prompt. So you can do some prompt engineering. I'll show you how to do that. So we're going to click on Magic Media, as you can see here. And then under Magic Media, you'll describe what you want to create. So in this case, I'm just going to say drone, something as simple as that. And I can pick the style that I want. So I'm going to click on CAL, and under CAL, you can select what you want. In fact, if you go to Styles and click on graphics and type in drone, you have something a little bit more accurate because here you can specify more sketch based drawings. So, for instance, there is actually like sketch or line art or different drawing options. So I'm going to click on sketch, and I'm just going to type in drone, and then I'm going to go ahead and generate a graphic for that. And that hopefully will give me something a little closer to what I'm looking for. It's going to give me four options. I'll take one of those options, and I'll just incorporate it into my image here. So, as you can see, that looks actually a lot better, looks more realistic, too. So a sketch is going to give you a black and white image. If you want something colorful, then you might want to use other pre existing graphics, as I've shown. But I think this looks good. So we can use something like this. I may not end up using this, but actually it doesn't look that bad, so we'll see. But there we go. Alright, so we just edited a page. Again, we started with Leonardo AI. We embedded the image here in Canva. We altered it, we tampered with it, we modified it, and we added our own touch to it. Okay. So it's coming along. So we have, what, one, two, three, four pages. Let's add one more page. So on the fourth page, we want to show her actually seeing or enjoying or being amused by a drone. So I do have a picture for that. So I'm going to go ahead and take this, and it looks like it's already centered. And we'll expand this all out and make sure it fits the page fully. Now, if you can't see, then you might have to zoom out a little bit and make sure it's fully covered. So I want to make sure that it shows a drone, so I'm going to move over a load this way, and there we go. Okay. So those are five pages the first five pages of the book that I'll essentially be using to produce the interior of my children's book, in this case, Gena the creative engineer, and you're going to want to do something similar. So think about what niche you want, what topic you want, and, you know, develop your own images, your illustrations, bring them into Canva, and start editing accordingly. As you can see, you will need to do some editing when dealing with AI images, and that's part of the whole process. So don't think you know, AI is just it doing all the work for you. No, there's going to be involvement, some intervention, and that's fine because, you know, you want to have your own authorship touch to it. As I mentioned, that's very important. So you want to be able to modify things and present it in the way that you want. And that's all of that is part of creating your children's book. 4. Editing AI Generated Images for Book Interiors: Alright, so so far, the main character who, in this case, is Jenna is interested in sketching, interested in drawing. She's artistic. She draws a solar panel. She visits or sees a solar panel on the roof of a home. She sketches a drone, and she goes outside and, you know, looks at it, plays with it, et cetera. She experiences the drone. And then let's go ahead and add our next thing. So what we want to do now is add a depiction of Jenna interested in a space station, okay? So, as you can see, there's a really unwanted image on this illustration, right? So I want to show that the main character is or has drawn something related to a space station, and this obviously doesn't fit well at all. So we're going to go ahead and edit this image as we've done. And I'm going to move a little faster this time around on the six images that we want to edit. So we're going to go ahead and remove, again, all the unwanted parts of our image so that we have a clear page that I can use to embed graphics or whatever it is that I want here. So we're going to remove all that. Okay, so it takes care of most of it, again, in many cases, or in some cases, you want to go over it at least more than once. Again, this doesn't have to be perfect, but you want to get close to perfection as possible. So just reduce the brush size again. Make sure we capture that. And that should take care of it. Alright, so I'm going to go back now. And now that I have an empty page, I want to add I want to look for graphics that are related to a space station. Okay. So I'm going to click on graphics here, and I want to look for graphics that would make sense. Okay. So there's a bunch that you can choose from. You can just pick what you like, essentially. So say, for instance, something like this. It looks pretty cool. So I'm going to take that. Now, one thing that's also important to mention is all your graphical elements have to be within margins, right? They can't bleed, essentially. The main illustration itself can go in the bleed region. But any of the graphics, if you were to do something like this, for instance, it would actually it would be a quality issue that would be flagged when you're uploading your interior on Amazon KDP potentially. Then also it'd be cut off in your prints. So you don't want that. You want to make sure all graphical elements, if you're using graphical elements are within margins. So I'm going to click on Magic recommendations here and see if I can add a few more things just to give it a cool look. So maybe something like this. And none of this is final. It's just, you know, just some touch ups. So all of these are enhancements, and, you know, you can really do whatever you want, but this is just to demonstrate the possibilities of what we can do here. Okay? Alright, so this is showing a space station. In space, right? Okay, cool. So I think this page looks good, for the most part. There is this little logo on the bottom there. You can remove that if you want. But for now, we're okay. We're going to proceed, and we're going to go to our next image. So the next thing I want to do is show the main character. Now, realistically, I mean, I want to make the book as realistic as possible. It is a children's book. It's imaginative, but I also don't want to be too out of line. So I'm not gonna put the main character. I'm not gonna send Jenna the main character to space. But what I can do is I can get little creative with it. So what I can do is I can have her dream, right, or daydream of her at a space station or in a space station at space, right? Something like that. So what I'm going to do is I have to use frames in this case because I'm going to make her I'm going to give an illustration of her sort of daydreaming or thinking of herself in space. So the way I can do that is, again, I go to elements, and in this case, I want to go to frames, okay? And under frames, there's different frames that you can look for. The frame that I'm interested in would be, so again, let's go to frames here. Let's click on frames. And under frames, I want, say, a cloud, right, because a cloud makes sense. It's like she's daydreaming. And this is a frame. So with frames, what you can do is you can actually embed or drop images into the frame area. So I'm going to go ahead and go back to uploads, and I'm going to grab the picture that I want to drop into the frame. The one I'm looking for is this one where she is actually in space. So I'm going to take that. And once you hover over the frame, it detects it, you can just drop it right in. Okay. So now that we have that, I can put this perhaps somewhere on the side here. Remember, you have to be within the margins. The other thing I'm going to do is because you have a picture over a picture. It doesn't really look too good. I'm going to highlight. I'm going to click on the main picture, and I'm going to go to transparency here, as you can see. I'm gonna set this lower, say, bring it down to, like, maybe 60 ish. Okay, 61 is fine. And the reason I want to do that is because I want to highlight this image here, right? I want the reader, in this case, you know, since it's a children's book, I want them to focus on the main point, which is that she's daydreaming and what is she daydreaming about? Well, they'll see what she's daydreaming about. So I then need to go to elements because, you know, just putting a cloud a cloud frame with an image there isn't good enough. We need to show that she's actually thinking or daydreaming. So the way you can do that, is we're going to go to Graphics and we can search for clouds again. Or you can search for, you can actually probably type in daydream and see if something comes up. There we go. So I can take something like this. Now, I don't need the whole thing. I just need these little circles on the bottom. So what I can do is I can, you know, double click on that, and I'm just going to crop it. So I'm going to bring it down somewhere around here. Let's say, Cool. And then what I can do there is I can take this and apply it accordingly to show that I can rotate it, for instance and have it show that she's, you know, daydreaming. So I can shape this as I like. There's a little Let me crop that just a little bit more. Yep, so that it's covering that part, that looks better. Cool. So then I could do something like this, for example. Okay. Again, you can fine tune and touch it up later, but wanted something like that, right? And then obviously we'll be adding text somewhere here and giving it a final look. But yeah, so that's how you do this. That's how you do that. And you can expand this frame. So if this is too small, obviously you can make this as large as you want, but obviously you want it so that it fits well. And when you print these, like the paperback version is, you know, it's not a small book. I mean, it's eight by five times eight by five. So you'll see this you'll see this very well. The reader can definitely make definitely good visual use of the final look of it. So then the next one is we're going to go ahead and grab our next image, which would be taking the next drawing that she will be drafting here. We'll be sketching in this case. So this is the case where she's now looking at ships or boats, and she's going to sketch it first, and then after that, she will embark on a journey on a boat where she will actually get to see a ship for herself. So this image right now doesn't make sense, so we're going to go ahead and edit that. And using the magic eraser, we're going to remove it because it doesn't fit right there, right? So we want to remove all this stuff. So let's go ahead and just remove all of that. And you want to make sure you get rid of all these lines, too. I don't think they are needed, unless if you want them. But in my case, I want to remove all of this, right? I want it to be completely clear. I want a page with practically nothing on it, so then I can include whatever graphics or images that I want. So I'm going to just do that race. It works pretty fast. So I probably need to do this more than once, which is okay, just to make sure that, you know, we have everything covered, just to make sure everything is taken care of. Then we can move on. Okay, so that should probably cover most of it. So click a race there. Again, you can touch it up. You just want to make sure that it doesn't, you know, do anything wrong. Uh, okay? So, make sure that you, you know, cut off things at the right points, the right places. Alright. So that should be good enough for now. So I'm going to go ahead and enter in a graphic to show. Yeah, we want to demonstrate that she's showcasing an image of a ship, and we'll make this a sketch so you can have colorful drawings, and you can just have, like, black and white sketches if you want. So I'll make this one a sketch. So you can do that just by grabbing graphics. So in this case, I'm just going to say maybe ship, and I like this one. Just going to go ahead and grab that, expand it. Again, make sure that it's within margins. Okay. So it's a good looking ship right there. And then you can actually change the color of this graphic if you want. You just simply click up here, and then you can select whatever color you want. So that's an option. But for me, I'm just going to go with black and white for now. And then if I wanted to, I can include, like, a picture of, say, the sun, for instance, and I just want, like, a simple graphic. I don't want anything too crazy. So say, for instance, you can look around so you can shop around and see what you think will fit good. But maybe something like sun with clouds or SunwCloud would make a little bit more sense. So maybe this one right here. I think that that would fit well for our image. So make that an appropriate size. I say something like that, maybe. As long as you can get close to the margin, just don't go past it. And I might want to add, you know, another cloud or two just to make it look cool. So again, you can pick whatever you want, maybe something like this. So put this here. Something like that. Again, you can touch it up and select whatever you want, select whatever graphics you see fit. But there we go. So the next page will be having the main character actually, um, look at a ship in the sea. So now that she's drawing it, the point is to have her experience it, appreciate the technology behind it, appreciate the science of how the ship is floating in the sea and so on. So we can move this forward or we can just move it there towards the point in, so we can have it moved so that the ship is clearly showing. And I think something like that would fit well. Here we go. Okay, so try one or two more pages. We're going to grab the next page here where what I want to do is have her draw a computer. Now, I know there's drones on here, because what I did was I thought that this would work well for what I'm trying to do in this page, which is to have her draw computers. And what I can do is I can just remove these images. So I'm going to go to again, same thing, Edit image, do magic eraser. And this time, instead of like grabbing pre existing graphical elements, what I'd like to do is actually, generate Well, I can grab maybe a pretty graphic element for the page on the left, but on the right, let me try to generate an image of a computer, something that will look more like more of a sketch, you can say. So let's erase that. Okay. So the cool thing about Canva is it's pretty quick. You know, it does the work fairly quickly. So let's remove this and then bring the brush size down. I just want to remove that little logo on the bottom there and erase. Okay, so that allows us to move on to the next step where we can go back here and I'm going to move this over this way because I don't need to show the whole thing. I also want to kind of bring this down a little bit, so I'm gonna expand this And move this a little bit that way. Don't need to show everything. My goal is to just show partially partial side of the left page, and then the full right page. So then what I want to do is look for computer images. So I'm going to go to elements. Well, actually, under uploads, I think I already have one, so I'm going to grab this one. Then what I can do is I can click on Edit Image, and I'm going to remove the background so this is a graphic that I generated earlier in Canva. But you can simply do this. We can take a look at how that's done. We'll use magic Media again, and then what you can do is you can just prompt it for a computer with a keyboard and mouse, and you want to select the style that you want. So it all depends on what you're looking for. Say handrawn. Let's try handrawn. And let's generate that graphic and see what it gives us. Maybe it'll give us something better than what I already have. If not, then we'll just use what we have here. But the point is you can definitely use the magic Media app and generate graphics that you like. Okay, so while that's doing its work, let's shift this over this way. So that actually looks pretty good, as is. Alright, so there's some sketches there. Now, those definitely look hand drawn. I don't like how those look. So I'm gonna cancel that. Let's see if we can do something a little nicer. Hm. Let's click on C A. Alright, so under graphics, you know what? Instead of graphics, what you can do is you can actually go to Image. And let's try watercolor. And let's try this again. So computer with keyboard. And mouse. And let's see instead of using the graphics selection, let's try the images option and see if that gives us something a little better. Sometimes you have to play around with the different options and see what fits best. Okay, so yeah, again, so that looks a little messy to me. I don't prefer that. But you can definitely play around with the different options that you have and see which one you like. So you can try concept art. So and see if it gives you something good. And if you don't like any of these, then you can look at pre existing graphics. But this was one of the ones that I actually generated with magic Media. You just have to find which one you like. So those are pretty cool. These are actually kind of neat looking. They're artistic. So you can take something like this. For instance, we can go to Edit and move the background because we don't want that background. We want it to fit in nicely in here. And if you wanted to, you can you know, say, for instance, have it so that it fits on the other side of the page. So we'll rotate it a little bit and put it here so that it shows that there was other artwork done on the other page as well, so that there's more than one. Okay? Just an example of how to use this, okay? So then finally, we'll add one more page, which is which is the one where she's actually working on the computer. So now that she's drawn a computer, we'll have her actually work on the computer after she's drawn it. So the purpose, again, of my main character is to show that she's a creative engineer. She draws her ideas and then sort of lives it, kind of brings it to life for herself. And that's all part of her creativity. Okay. So there's one little thing that I feel I need to edit here. You can see there's there's, like, a piece of hair on her arm here. So we can easily edit that. So we'll go to Edit. This magic eraser tool is very helpful. Comes in really handy, and then you can select the brush size. So when you just select what you want, it's usually smart enough to know what you're trying to do. Okay, so it removed it. And then to be consistent, you know, I can also remove that right there, sort of that line in the middle. So if I wanted to, I can just remove that. But again, all of these are just final touch ups that you can do later as well. Okay, so that looks better. Looks more fitting with the image. All right. So, what we've done is we've created several more pages, and as you can see, there was some editing involved to make this happen. It's not just, you know, you generate images with AI and then you're done. It does take some work. But ultimately, once you put the work in, the pages start coming out great and your children's book starts coming to life. 5. Ensuring Consistency in Character Illustrations: Previously, I wanted to show a page or include a page in my book where I'd have the former character from my first book that is Adam Adam the Curious Engineer. And I wanted him to join Jenna the creative Engineer in this book, at least on one of the last pages in the book to demonstrate continuity. And also to make it more seemingly of it being a series, right? Because the series of my books have to do with STEM science technology engineering mathematics, specifically in this case, STEM Engineering Adventures. So that's the series of that's my book series. So I want Adam to join Jenna in one of the adventures, or at least to just show up in the book somehow. In some way. So I think one of the images that I found to be successful in generating both of them, Adam and Jenna using Leonardo AI was this one. The only thing is Adam's hair is darker, right? So his hair is more black, and then Jenna's hair is more of a lighter brown than this. So I think with just a little bit of editing and Canva, I can get them to look more like themselves. But for the most part, it's consistent. The characters do look consistent with what has been produced in my books thus far. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to go ahead and grab that image and drop it into Canva, because I want to use it so that I can include a page to show two characters. And this helps for cases where you do want a book series and you want multiple characters involved. So I'm going to take this image and what I'd like to do is, you know, expand it out. So there's two books on the floor there. I don't really need to show that. I don't care for it as much. What I do care for is just to show that they're both there together, okay? So I'm going to go ahead and expand that and maybe move it a little bit. Well, I guess I can just show it like this. For now. Okay, so what I want to do is I'm going to go ahead and click on Edit Image. And this time, I'm going to click on Magic Edit. And magic Edit allows you. It's built in AI tool, and it allows you to edit certain features of an image. So what you want to do is just using the brush, highlight what you want changed, and then describe what change you want, and the AI will do its best job to change it for you. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to select Adam's hair because right now it's too bright. It's too brown, you can say. I'm just going to, like, highlight his hair, and I'm going to request a change there. So I'm going to say, make the boy's hair darker, okay? And that's it. I'm going to generate that, and it's gonna give me some options. And hopefully we find something fitting, something works well. And from what I see, definitely Yep, perfect. Awesome. So that color right there would work great. Definitely shows black hair there. So I'm gonna pick that one. I like it. I like it a lot. So I'm gonna go back. And I want to also change the other character's hair. So the girl character, in this case, Jenna, the creative engineer. I want to change her hair to be a bit brighter because she has light brown hair, although it is somewhat light. I think we're going to make it light because the point is one of the main points is to make both of the characters distinct and unique. So I want her hair to just be a little bit lighter. I feel that that would help a lot for the book. So we're just going to make sure that we highlight her hair and not the boys. And hopefully that should be good enough. So let's give this a shot. I'm going to say, make the girl's hair lighter. That's all. Just a simple prompt there. And let's see if it gives it to us. I'm hoping for a light brown. Okay, so that's too light. That looks good. That's also not bad. Cool. Okay. So I'm thinking maybe let's try this one. This one looks like it's a good fit. Great. Beautiful. Alright, so now we have our two characters, Adam and Janna, joining each other, and now it's just a matter of including text, making it more meaningful of a page. So perhaps they're joined together on some engineering project, or they're here to draw some artwork relating to some engineering or technical or scientific concept or what have you, right? But the point is, you can integrate more than one consistent character using Leonardo A, using AI tools, and just with some editing, you can touch it up. You can fine tune it and get it to where you want it to be. So you start from you start with, you know, some um you start with a model, and then you take that model, enhance it to what you want it so that it fits right in your book. 6. Creating a Copyright Page for Your Book: All right, so an important part of your book is you want to include a copyright page. And the reason why you want to do that is because you want to protect your book from plagiarism. Now, what you're going to do is you're going to add a page. So you can simply just if you go to the bottom here, you can just click on Ad Page and then go to the Grid View and bring the page over to the first page there. Close the Grid view. And now that you have a page dedicated, we can make this our copyright page. So this is the copyright page should be in the beginning of your interior book. So you always want it to be the first page, obviously after your cover page. But in this case, let's go ahead and create our copyright page. So what I did is I put together just a format of how you should draft your copyright page. You can obviously change just how you like. But this paragraph right here is pretty standard. You don't have to include all the parts, but there are different versions of this, but this is the one that I have been using. I will provide this document, this format. I'll provide the word document file as a resource so you can download it and use it as you wish and modify it. But yeah, so you'll include your book title here, the book series, if applicable, and then you'll include the copyright with a copyright symbol, the year. So here I should probably put year of publication B, and then you put the author, which would be yourself. And then you have the all rights reserved paragraph. So we'll start with the book title in the book series. So I'm going to go here. I'm going to click on Text. When I go to text, I guess I can do a subheading, and then you can modify that. So I'm going to call it kind of the creative engineer. That's the name, and I need a font that works, so something that looks professional. One that I know works great is Verdana Pro. So Verdana Pro has a good look to it. And what I'd like to do is shrink that down. I don't need it to be balled and say, Yeah, maybe 12. So this is still bald. Let's remove that. There we go. Alright, so something like that. I'm going to move it here, perhaps. We can work on a placement later, but estimate it somewhere around there. Okay. So now that I have that, I can just copy and paste it. And what I do is I just do Control C, Control V, and then right under it, I'm going to put the book series. So in my case, it's STEM Engineering Adventures, and just have that line up. Can even move this up a little bit if I wanted to. All right, so that's that part, and then I can again copy this, bring that down. So then I'll include the copyright stuff here. So let me grab that from here. You can just control a right click Copy or Control C, and then we're going to go ahead and highlight this, and you can paste or Control plus V, expand this out. Again, make sure this all aligns. So let's do that. Alright, there. Alright, copyright, publication. So in my case, it is 2024. Ooh, not 25, 24, not 23, either. By myself, Prof Higazi. Great. Again, make sure that it fits well, has to fit perfectly. And make sure that's fully aligned. Okay. And once that's done, we're gonna go ahead and oh, make sure that lines up. Can just copy and paste, and we're gonna go ahead and grab our Ars reserved paragraph. So copy. And we're going to control V, paste that, expand this out so that takes the appropriate room. You're going to want to probably move the alignment. So I'm going to have to highlight all this and then select the alignment, and I want it aligned to the left side. So that looks pretty good. Let me expand that. That looks even better. So I like that. Make sure all of this aligns good. Okay. And I think that's fine. Again, you can play around with this later, make sure it's all lined up. Okay. Cool. So something like this, and then what you can do to give it a better look because this is very plain is we could put a picture of the main character here, like, a small one. So what I can do is I can go to uploads and I can find Hmm, I can find an image that I think might work well. Uh, let's see. Let's go to Images. If we go to Alright, so let's go to Images and find an appropriate image for it. So if we go to download, we're going to go to Images. And let's see. I believe I had one designated for this, perhaps this one. So what I can do is I can take this image right here and I'm just going to drop it, edit the image, remove the background. So I'm going to click the BJ remover because I only want the main character and places somewhere around here. It doesn't have to be that large, it could be small. And. Okay. So I feel like all of this is too high up. So let's bring this down. This should definitely be lower, something like that. Okay. So now it's coming to life a little bit, copyright page that is. There's one more thing I can add. Now, in children's books, especially a paperback, you want to include, like it's recommended to include, like this book belongs to and then have, you know, the child write their name. So the way you want to do that is just go to text and add a heading. So we'll do a subheading, and we'll say this book belongs to colon. I'll take this and I'll place it up here. You want to pick, like, a fun font. So maybe we have to look around, so you want to pick a font that looks good, something that looks fun. Comic Sands is pretty fun looking. And then I'm going to click on Effex, maybe drop an outline on that, select the color and make it a little bit more colorful. So yeah, so that's an outline there. Let's see. So maybe that Alright, so we're gonna select red. And the color of the font itself, you can change. So if you don't like this color, um, you can change that font there. Alright, so we're gonna click on this and try to change the color. So that looks better. And you can also change the thickness of that. So if you wanted to make it a little thicker, there we go. This book belongs to. And then what you can do now is we can go to elements. We can go to shapes. And you can search for a specific shape if you want. In this case, we're just looking for a line. So I actually do see a line right there, but you can just click online and see which line you want. So I'll take this line, center it. It could just be a black line. And span this out, make it a little bit longer, and then center that. This book belongs to. There we go. And again, you can, you know, touch this up, do all your final touch ups in the end. But something like this would work for a copyright page. You can enhance it as you wish, play around with it, tweak it. But you do want to include some of the features shown here for your copyright page so that you can have the best look for the opening of your page, and it also demonstrates ownership and all the rights that are reserved, all your copyright features that are necessary to protect your book and to protect your writing. 7. Validating and Perfecting Book Interior Illustrations: Okay, so now that we've covered how to take illustrations and build your pages in Canva, the next step really is, once you've done the copyright page, is to kind of just go through all your pages and do one final validation. Just do a quality check on all the pages, make sure everything looks good, do some final touch ups if needed. So let's go ahead and do that real quick. So I added this as you know, this book belongs to, and this is the whole copyright page that we've looked at. So I just want to go through and make sure that everything looks good on all the pages before we start adding text. That's an important step. You want to make sure that the quality of the AI generated images look good. Nothing is out of place. Nothing looks funny. So that's all important. So, you know, you can see here on the bottom that, you know, I have completed the book, 30 pages right there. So let's just go down and do a quality check and make sure everything looks good. Now, the cool thing is, the text will often you can use the text to cover some of the flaws, but ultimately, a lot of them can be fixed right here in Canva. So we can click on this. I see that there's a little bit too much freckles there, so you can just click on Edit Image, and we're going to click on the Magic eraser, zoom in, and definitely bring your brush size down. Want something really small, I just think there's a little too much here. So we'll just take a little bit off. It's okay if she has freckles, but I feel like it's a little heavy on that, so I'm just going to reduce those. So to me, that looks better. There we go. So a little bit less freckles there. It blends in better. Let's see. So let's just keep going down. I think with this one, the graphic that demonstrates her portrait or her drawing is too it's too dark. So what we can do is instead of changing the color, which you can do, essentially, we're just going to change a transparency. So instead of 100, let's try to bring that down, say, maybe 70 or 71, something like that. I like odd numbers, so I'm picking 71. I like that. So that definitely looks a lot better than 100% because at 100%, it's just very dark, and this to me looks more like a sketch, right? So you think about how a sketch work, how a pencil works. You know, it's typically not not very, very dark, but it has, like, a tint to it. Okay. So we're just going to keep going down. Make sure nothing is out of place, out of line. Check for the quality. Look for the quality of the images, make sure all the parts are in place. You don't have any extra fingers, for instance. You know, eyes aren't cross eyed. Again, images aren't too dark, so this one, again, is a little bit too dark. So I'll bring that down to 71, definitely looks a lot better. You can definitely see the difference there as soon as I change it. Alright, so, right, that looks okay. We're going to keep going down. I don't see any issues here. The electric car. These are good. The transparency on those or the colors have already been reduced, so those fit well. Okay? Looks good. These also look good, not too dark. And you just got to keep going down, make sure everything looks good. Nothing too significant, nothing that stands out. So I see an issue here, as you can see, in her hands, it almost looks like the page, and one or part of her hand are kind of merging. That's not good, right? So I think the way I'm going to cover this flaw is basically when we're doing text, I'm just going to draw a shape here over the text and make it transparent. That's what I do with all the pages anyway, not necessarily to cover flaws, but just because it's easier to read for children. But in this case, I can actually use the shape to cover this as well. I'll show you how to do that in the next video lesson. So I don't need to go about and edit this. And these are a little bit harder to edit. They are doable. So if I really wanted to, I could edit it, but since I'm going to put text anyway, you know, I'll put the text there and make the best use of it. Alright, so here, I see a little flaw here as well, so as you can see on her finger, her thumb, there's, like, a line there. So that is something we can edit if we wanted to. Or we can also add text there later. And again, with transparent shaped text, you can cover it. But let's go ahead and try to edit it here and see if we can just correct it. So just bring that brush down. And just want to, you know, highlight over the part that, you know, you want to eliminate. Just kind of clear out. So let's see how good of a job it does. Sometimes you have to generate more than once until you get it right. In some cases, you get it right on the first try. So I think in this case, it actually looks pretty good. There's also a little line here, so I'm just going to try to get rid of that, as well, to try to make it look, you know, more reasonable, more appropriate. Just make sure everything blends right. Alright, so there we go. That looks a lot better. So I think we've kind of corrected that there. And nevertheless, I'm still going to put my text in this area anyway, probably. So it won't matter too much anyway. Alright, let's just keep going down. That looks good. Maybe a little bit too much freckles there, as well, so we can edit that real quick. So these are the kind of things you want to just, you know, look for, make sure things are you know, not excessive and just overall look good, you know, you just want things to look good. Because again, I mean, children are visual learners, so you want to make sure that they're absorbing both your illustrations and texts together. Alright, so that looks good. Moving on. We're almost done here. So that looks good. No issues here. It looks great. Okay, so far so good. Nothing there as well. So just keep going down. Alright, here, I see like there's, like, part of a pen, it seems. I think that's unnecessary. I don't think we need that. I also feel like her finger. Yeah, that doesn't look good either. So you can see the finger is kind of, like, displaced. So I feel like we can, that can easily be edited by putting text over it. But again, you can correct it using the magic eraser, as well. But let's go ahead and go to the magic eraser. And I just want to remove this piece right here because I just feel like it's unnecessary. So we'll just erase that. And hopefully it removes it on the first go. Okay. So removed most of it. You might have to adjust the brush size of bit, just to grab the rest of it and then just highlight over it, erase and it should clear it this time around. It works pretty fast on the second go, usually. There we go. Awesome. So I like that. That looks good. Alright. So there we go. So that's it. All you have to do is just kind of go down and touch everything up, brush things up, and just give it a nice final look, polish it, basically. We already updated this picture. We made Adam's hair darker and Jenna's hair lighter, so that all looks good there. Alright, so in the next video lesson, we'll start looking at how to insert text. And basically with the text, you'll see that it complements the image. 8. Generating Book Content with AI and Inserting It into Interior Pages: Alright, so now that we've touched up and finalized our illustrations in our Canva pages for our interior paperback, the next step would be essentially to add text. So the way you would do that is you're gonna have to integrate chat GBT with, you know, what you're doing in terms of illustrations. I mean, you can certainly develop your own content, but if you want to leverage AI, for content as well. You can do that. What I do and my personal recommendation is not to fully rely on AI. I never advocate for that. What I advocate for is to use AI, leverage AI as a tool to generate images, to generate texts and everything you need so that you have some groundwork. You have a base, right? You have like basically some framework to work with that you can start developing the full picture for your book or for whatever content you're developing or what have you. So with that said, what I'm going to do is I'm going to add some text boxes in these pages, and we're going to do that by going to Chat GBT. And initially, I had shown the initial prompts that you want to send in order to get basically like a draft of your entire book. But again, I like to leverage AI and refine its content. So there's all process of refinement when it comes to prompt engineering, and it's a very important aspect to learn about artificial intelligence or using AI. So, I took the initial draft that Chat GBT gave me, and what I did is I provided some feedback and asked it to modify it for me. So the prompt looks something like this. I said, Below, you will find a revised draft of 30 pages for the content. For the content of my book, Jena the Creative Engineer, the content is not final, but I wanted to write a draft and ask you to refine it. Refine so that the content for each page is educational, smart, fun. Make it for ages ten around that target audience, right? Also, use some engineering keywords in the pages. Best the best you can is what I was trying to say. There may be a few typos, but hGBT can clear that. Lastly, tweak the content for each page so that it makes sense. And then I say, Here's the content. So what I've done is I've taken the initial draft that Ch JBT gave me, and I modified each of the pages, each of the content that will be included in the pages to make more sense because I want to add my own authorship flavor to the content. I don't just want AI to write everything for me. So I took what AI gave me, and I tweaked a lot of the words, a lot of the ideas. I changed things around. So, you know, I got it to here, and then after you know, I've given it what I wanted, and as such, I thought I could improve it better. So that's why I prompted it. And this is what it gave me. So you can see it's a lot more enhanced, but then I noticed that it only gave me 27 pages, and I was looking for 30 pages. So I kept prompting it. And here, I think it gave me I actually need 29 pages. It's not 30 because the copyright page doesn't count, right? So I came to realize that. So I said, sorry, I meant exactly 29 pages. And we were getting a lot closer. So you know, it gave me what I was looking for. And I said, add a page 18-19 because I noticed that it merged two of the pages or the content of two of the pages, which won't work for me. I need exactly 29 pages, so then it goes ahead and gives me the full 29 pages. And then I wanted to tweak some things further. You can modify as you go along. So I said, For page one, how about I say this instead. Right? So I'm getting its input. And then it added it. And then, again, I just kept trying and refining and just bettering. There's a lot of questions that I would ask on grammar. So you can leverage GBT for grammar for just checking overall syntax, for checking flow in a sentence, you know, for checking different stylistic approaches, different styles. All of that. You know, anything that comes to writing to authoring a children's book, you can certainly do it. So here I'm asking, you know, is this grammatically correct? Is this wrong? Should it be capitalized? All that kind of stuff? Because you have to be as precise as possible when it comes to children's books, right? You don't want to make a mistake. The last thing you want to do is publish a book and have a mistake in it, right? It's not really a cool thing to have. So anyway, all of these are just refinements and, hey, can you change this? Can you update that? How does this sound? How does that sound? And that's what you kind of want to do, right? All the way until you get to a point where you feel comfortable. You feel good about where you are. Okay? So so I'm going to go to a point where, you know, it's sufficient for me to copy and paste. Some of these have been refined, but, you know, I know what changes need to be made, essentially. So we're going to go to here. We're going to go to page one. So the content that I'm looking for is right here. Okay, so, page one says Jenna draws exciting pictures inspired by her creativity and love for engineering. She then embarks on fun adventures to explore and learn these engineered creations in real life. Beautiful. Okay, so I'm going to copy this, okay, because this is what AI gave me plus What I added to it. So it's basically a tampered version of what AI gave me. That includes my own flavor of writing. And then what I'm going to do to add the text is I'm going to go to elements. Okay this is very important. And then you want to go to shapes. So shapes is when you go to elements, you always find shapes here. You'll find shapes, graphics, and a bunch of other stuff. So click on C A. And the one that you want, typically, you can use whatever shape you want, but the one that seems to make most sense is, you know, the one next to the square. So with the yeah, with the edges that aren't as sharp. So what you're going to do from here is select the color of the shape. And typically, I like to pick something that's, like, close to white. You can certainly use white. But I sort of like to go for, like, maybe an off white, like, a light gray or something like that. So I'd recommend doing that. It's totally up to you, but usually, that's what I do, and then I'm going to go ahead and paste the content. And I also want to select the font. Now, when it comes to fonts, there's a bunch of different fonts that you can use. For children's books, you want to pick something fun, something, you know, exciting, something that is maybe educational or in this case, because she is a creative engineer, maybe something creative, right, something artistic. So you can actually type stuff like fun for font, for instance, and then you can play around with the different fonts. But before we do that, let's just change the colors. So I think for now, I'm going to go with, we said we're going to do, like an off white, so something like that, something close to white but not exactly white. And then for the font itself, I want something that will kind of blend in with her character. So I feel like maybe some kind of red reddish or dark red might work good. So if we go here, you know, you could pick some kind of, like, darker red or something like that. So I feel maybe something like Alright, maybe something like this. You can always change it later. Close to, like, a red, brownish color, maybe. I want it dark enough, also. So yeah, we'll stick with that. That looks pretty good. And, of course, you want to change the font size. So because this is a large print book, you want to make sure the font is at least 16, okay, at least, if not more, and span this out. I would say that 16 is the bare minimum. I would even stretch it up to, like, maybe 18 or more. We'll start with 18 and see where that goes with us, okay? And then the other important thing that you want to do is start placing them in the right place, right? And you're going to want to change, in this case, the transparency of the shape. It's too dark. So definitely bring that down. I'd say somewhere around the 80s or 70s look good. So maybe let's try 79. As long as it's visible, then that's sufficient. Okay. And the other thing that you want to do is make sure that you get the right shape size and select confirm what font you want, so make sure that you finalize the font. So for my case, I'm probably going to end up using one of the common ones for children's books is Comic Sands. I like this one a lot. So I think I'm going to go with that. Yeah, I feel like I'm probably going to end up going with this. You can choose to make it bald if you want. But I'd recommend, I mean, when you print this out as a paperbook, the font is already large enough and thick enough, so I don't really think you need to make it bald. So now you just have to worry about placement. You don't want to cover the main characters facial features, so, you know, be careful with that. What I can do and typically what I like to do in this case, is split it in two. So then what I can do is have two parts. Okay, so now I split it into so I can have more space, and I'll put this at the top, just make sure it's within margins. And then I'm going to remove the first half of this Oop, and then I'll shape this accordingly. And then I can shape and I can just place it wherever I like. So you can have one placed here, for instance, and one placed here. And you can even align them if you want, something like that. And there you go. So that'd be your first page. And again, you can tweak this and modify as you like later on, but you need to start somewhere with the text, okay? So Jenna draws exciting pictures, inspired by her creativity and love for engineering. Then as they look down on the bottom of the page, they'll read the other part, and they'll say, she then embarks they'll read rather, she then embarks on fun adventures to explore and learn about these engineered creations in real life. Great. So that's how that page looks. Now, the cool thing is, once you've created your very first shape with color, font size, font type, You know, all that stuff. Then what you can do is you can just simply copy Control C, or you can right click and copy style or just copy. And then you go to the next page and just Control V. Okay? And then all you need to do from here is go to your chat GBT and select the second page. Copy the content for the second page, and just copy and paste. And then you can increase the size if you want. So we'll do 19 here. We'll make it a little larger. So I would say stay between like 18 to 22 or even 24, depending on the page. But I would not go more than that. The front would just get too large. So yeah, here we are. So Jenna draws solar panels that would be installed on the roofs of houses in her picture. You can always modify the content still nothing is set in stone until you print it. So we're just making sure that we fill every page right now. Alright. So that's the second page. Now, let's move on to the third page. And here, this one says, walking in her neighborhood, she spots a home with solar panels and recalls that they might or recalls that they turn sunlight into electricity to power up homes. Cool. So I then go ahead and I can actually I should have copied this first. I'm gonna copy and paste here, and then I'm going to go and copy this, and then I'm going to go and paste it, so you can just highlight the words here and Control V. Now, what I want to do is split this in two also because I'll show you why. You want to pick a style, a style of writing. Even though AI has helped you generate content, it doesn't mean that you can't, as a children's book author, include your own style, your own words, your own everything. Your own touch to it. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to put walking in her neighborhood, dot, dot, to show continuity, and I'll also expand this. And I'm also going to make this a little larger this time. So say 21, expand this out a little bit, walking in her neighborhood. I'm going to put this at the top, somewhere centered. And then what I'm gonna do is take this part. So walking in her neighborhood, capital S. Again, this is all style. And these are some of the things that I've asked Chat GBT before, right? So I can just make that a capital S. Great. So now you get a look like this, which I think looks nice. When you print it out, it's gonna look great. So walking in her neighborhood, dot dot, they're going to wonder, well, what else is there to read, and then they'll look at the bottom and say, Okay, she spots a home with solar panels and recalls that they turn sunlight into electricity to power up homes. Alright, so those are the first three pages of inserting text. And then what you want to do essentially is just kind of keep going down and do this for every single page. Now, what's important is to make sure that you're placing the text in the right location so that, you know, it looks proper. And that's all there is to it. So make sure that you don't cover the eyes. You're not covering the sketches. You're not covering the objects, any of the main parts of the image, the illustration. You want to make sure that all of those are visible, but your text is still included, and, you know, the transparency does help. One other thing I wanted to show, which I talked about in the last video lesson is using this to cover up some of the flaws that AI may generate. So let's look at an example or two of that real quick. So one of them we said we found, I believe it was here, which we did correct, but if I wanted to just cover it up further, all I need to do is take the text box with the shape and just yep, place it right over it. I mean, although it's transparent, you really won't be able to see fine details, you'll just have to update the text accordingly. Likewise, you can do it for other issues that we may have found. I believe we found one actually it was the one where she was drawing the light bulb. So this one as well, we did find a problem here. So you can just take that if you wanted and place it somewhere here, you know, and you can definitely change the size of the font to make sure the light bulb is showing since that's the main part here. And it still shows that she's writing, and, you know, you've covered up that flaw in the background. You can't really see the fine details, so it's gonna be overlooked. It's not going to be something that anyone will really focus on. And that's just the way to deal with some of the issues that AI may present. So you can also make the transparency a little darker if you want. I still showing the back, but not as visible. So these are just some tips to take into account. When you're working with AI generated images, most images are okay. You have to filter them, as I mentioned, and, you know, oftentimes you'll need to edit them, but this is just an additional tip where you can use text shapes to cover up some of the obvious issues. But in most cases, you're fine. As I mentioned, this is just an additional recommendation. Alright, so with that said, I'm going to go ahead and just finish the interior. You should be able to follow along based on what was presented in this video lesson if you're working on your own book, but I'm just going to go ahead and show you the final look. So let's do that in a second. Okay, so after a fair amount of editing and just touching things up, I did modify the font color a bit, made it a bit lighter. I also changed the size on many of them. And this is my final look. This is the final look of the interior. I made all the necessary changes required, and this is where we are right now. So at this point, it should be ready for printing. So what you would do after, you know, just look at it over one more time, make sure you're not missing any periods and just make sure everything looks good. But this is the final look right here. And once you feel happy and comfortable with it, you know, then it's just a matter of going ahead and printing it. So what you can do is you're going to go to share and then go to download. Same as we've done for the book cover, you're going to select PDF print, and you're going to flatten the PDF. And because this is a paperback, you're going to select CMYK, which is best for professional printing because this will be printed. These are the pages for our interior, and then you just essentially click on Download and allow it to download. Alright, so once it's fully downloaded, it should open it up for you. In your PDF, you were automatically. And then, you know, this is your final look. These are the pages for your interior. So you can look at how it looks like a product as a final product. And again, if you feel happy with it, then the next step would be to upload and publish on Amazon KDP.