How To Create Coloring Pages with Cricut

1. Cricut Coloring Pages intro: Greetings. I'm Vanessa Saba Vanessa S, and welcome to my course creating coloring pages with Cricket. In this course, I'm going to show you how to create wonderful coloring pages for those that love to color using the newly released Cricket Coloring pages feature, which can be found in Cricket's design space. After the course, I'm going to also provide you with information on your class project. I'll talk about that more later. But for now, if you're ready, I'm ready. I will see you in the lesson. 2. Coloring Page Design: There are three options available for creating coloring pages using the Cricket coloring pages feature. The first is image only. Now, this is where you can take an image that you have a picture, a photo that you've taken, uploaded into the design space program, the feature itself for coloring pages. And then the software is going to generate the same image, but in coloring book form. As you can see, I've used this image, which I took in Taos, New Mexico, on one of the Pueblos. And as you can see, in the coloring book image, it's the same image laid out the same way. I didn't use a prompt for this. This was just the image. I just added the image as an upload. Told it to generate, and this is what it generated. This is the coloring book page. The second way is by using a combination of image and text. So in this image, I used the same image from the image only, same image, but I told it to add horses and grass and trees. And as you can see, if you look at the original image and then look at the coloring book image, the coloring book image added horses, trees and grass. Again, that's just by adding the image that you want your photo using your photo and then adding text. To make some changes. You can tell it things like create a border or add or remove something. You can tell it remove the clouds. Don't add the clouds. Whatever you tell it, that's what it's going to do. The third option is text to image. Now, this is where you would create a prompt detailing what you want the color and page to include, and then have the program generate based on the text that you provide. The more descriptive the prompt is, the more likely you'll get what you're actually seeking. So in this case, I told it I wanted to have adobe Pueblo building with characteristic rounded walls, exposed wooden vigas and a turquoise painted doorway, a blooming prickly pair of cactus and a pinion pine tree frame. Now, of course, I did not expect it to give me a turquoise painted doorway. That was a reference. I wanted for the pueblo, and the coloring page delivered. I have prickly pair cactus over here. I have a pinion tree frame, the pine tree frame. I have an Adobe Pueblo building. All of this is reflective of the prompt that I provided. And those are the three ways that you can generate coloring pages. You have three options. The first, again, is by uploading your image. The second is uploading an image and providing some text, and then it's the text to image. Here is another image that I created that was from text using a prompt. Now, I want to show you something specific with this image. The first is that if you notice, this is stating that it's a student sitting at a desk covered in craft supplies. It has a lot of elements that I wanted to have included, which are included. However, if I wanted to be more descriptive, let's say I wanted a Black woman with glasses and locks. I would add in the prompt that I want a Black woman with glasses and locks. I would be descriptive about ethnicity or race, gender. The more description that you provide the better. Notice that this texter image has all the elements that I stated I wanted. The difference between this is the race and the gender between the two images. My point is, be as descriptive as you feel like you need to be. There are a few things to note when it comes to working with the design space coloring book feature. I'll call them pro tips. The first is that there are nine different styles to choose from, and they're all located right directly in the program. Each one is different, and so I would encourage you to play with them and to see which one you like better. Also note that for every iteration, Cricket will deduct a credit from you. And as a cricket access subscriber, you receive a certain amount of credits monthly. So every iteration is going to deduct a credit from you. Even if you're trying to make changes or revisions, it is counted as an iteration. Lastly, you might want to save your prompts. Take your prompt and put them on a Word file or another text type file so that you can keep your prompts because this program does not add the prompt and keep the prompt with the image. And so if you want to use the prompt again, reuse it, recycle it, you won't be able to do that if you don't save it yourself. So that's it for the cricket design space, coloring page feature. You have three different options, text to image, image only, and image with text. 3. Coloring Page Workspace: Let's navigate the cricket coloring pages workspace. Now, once you access Cricket design space, you'll see the tab that says coloring pages. It's very colorful. It's like a rainbow color. Once you click on it, you will arrive at your workspace, which is right here. This is a very easy and navigator friendly workspace because everything is right in the center is right in one place. First notice, you have two tabs, Photo prompt, text prompt. If you're going to upload a photo, which you have several choices, JPEG, PNG, Gift SVG, if you're going to upload, you can drag it here or you can click on it and get it from your file. If you're going to add text for using the image and then using text, the combination, you would add your optional text here. Your stylings are here. You have classic comic book cute, simple anime adventure line art caricature and magazine cartoon. Also, here is your Generate for a credit. This is telling you how many credits each iteration is going to cost you. Once you choose what you're going to use, whether it's the image or whether it's going to be text, you'll see that this will light up. The next tab is the text prompt. This is if you're going to just use text, text for your image. And so you would put your text here. I'm not sure how many characters you can use. I've used almost two paragraphs sometimes, which that's not the best thing to do, but I'm just saying I was testing it out and I wanted to see how much text it would allow and it allows a lot of text. But you would add your text here. And then, again, if you want to choose a style, you can choose a style. Now, up here, notice this is where your credits are. This what's telling you how many credits you have for the month, how many credits you have left. After you generate an image, a coloring page, you will notice that your credits are starting to decrease, but they replenish monthly. Now, I can't tell you by how much because I'm not sure that it's the same for everyone, but that is something to explore and to look into. But this is where it will show you how many credits you have. And that's your cricket coloring pages workspace. 4. Coloring Page Class Project: Let's talk about the class project. For this class project, I simply want you to create your own coloring page. You can use either of the methods that we discussed in the lesson. It can either be text to image, image only or image with text. You decide, but create a coloring page based on one of those methods, and then upload your coloring page along with your prompt to the class projects folder. Simple. I can't wait to see what you all design.