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Publish a Book with ChatGPT, Dall-e 3, Leonardo. ai, Midjourney, and Canva.

teacher avatar Nick Nebelsky, Author / Illustrator / AI Enthusiast

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introduction and Project Details

      1:30

    • 2.

      Ideas, Outlines, and Stories Using ChatGPT

      6:49

    • 3.

      Ideas, Outlines, and Stories in Canva

      4:48

    • 4.

      Introduction to Leonardo AI

      9:00

    • 5.

      Cool Extras in Leonardo AI for Image Generation

      7:12

    • 6.

      Midjourney.AI and More!

      3:46

    • 7.

      New AI Tool in Canva: Magic Expand!

      2:25

    • 8.

      New AI Tool in Canva: Magic Grab

      4:06

    • 9.

      New AI Tool in Canva: Game Changer

      8:22

    • 10.

      Create a Cover in Canva

      0:44

    • 11.

      Six Remarkable AI Tools from Canva

      6:52

    • 12.

      KDP Publishing Updates (AI and Categories)

      9:24

    • 13.

      Project: Upload a Cover Design

      6:29

    • 14.

      Create a Cover in Canva

      4:55

    • 15.

      KDP Publishing Updates (AI and Categories)

      6:55

    • 16.

      Project: Upload a Cover Design

      1:06

    • 17.

      BONUS: How to Build Consistent Characters and Fine Tuned Models in AI

      5:19

    • 18.

      New Tool from ChatGPT: Canvas

      3:23

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Step into the thrilling realm of cutting-edge AI tools that will ignite your creativity like never before! Have you ever dreamed of leaping headfirst into the world of children's picture books or crafting your own captivating graphic novel, but felt daunted by where to begin?

Buckle up, because Artificial Intelligence is about to be your creative ally, providing you, the visionary creator and wordsmith, with an arsenal of tools to elevate your literary and artistic masterpieces. Prepare for an electrifying journey as I unveil a treasure trove of remarkably simple yet incredibly powerful options.

Picture this: you could be holding your very own printed book and a dazzling eBook in your hands within a single day, all thanks to my updated class. In just the past half-year, I've unleashed a whopping eleven books upon the world, and I can promise you, the process is not only shockingly easy but also an absolute blast. This course is your one-way ticket to unlocking a vault of invaluable tips, ingenious techniques, and an abundance of resources, all meticulously designed to expedite your journey to becoming a published author, whether it's your first venture or the next in a string of successes.

Once upon a time, it took me a painstaking two years to breathe life into the illustrations of a single book, but now, with my game-changing system, you'll be churning out books in as little as a week. I'm about to reveal just how effortlessly this transformation can be achieved, and before you know it, you'll be cranking out books with the speed of a literary maestro.

But wait, there's more! The skills you'll acquire in this course aren't confined to one genre or medium. You'll emerge as a bonafide, Canva virtuoso, mastering the art of design and production, and harnessing the potent publishing prowess of KDP for your literary creations, including the mesmerizing world of E-books.

AND as a bonus, I'm going to show you the amazing image generators such as Leonardo.ai, Midjourney.ai, and other AI tools that will up your game.

Whether your aspirations lie in the realms of picture books, recipe compendiums, journals, novels, graphic sagas, manga adventures, non-fiction exposés, or thrilling fiction odysseys, this course has been tailor-made for you.

Prepare for an unforgettable voyage through the five enthralling sections:

WRITING: I'll show you how to search for ideas, outline your book, or write it in ChatGPT

ART: Unleash your artistic prowess with AI (Leonardo.ai or Midjourney.ai) or (Procreate or Photoshop)

PRODUCTION: Use Canva to layout your book and transform your vision into reality

PRINTING: Use KDP and witness your creation in physical form on Amazon or other sites

BONUS: A treasure trove of surprises awaits!

Gear up with these prerequisites:

  • The free or Pro version of Canva
  • An Art App for crafting your original masterpieces (think Photoshop or Procreate)
  • Or if you're not artistic, get a free account to Leonardo.ai and ChatGPT 3.5
  • A free account on KDP

Fear not, for I will be your guiding star, leading you through each section with precision and finesse, ensuring that you emerge as a published author with speed and efficiency. No prior experience is needed. I won't sugarcoat it; it demands effort, but the rewards will eclipse the sweat and toil. Get ready to embark on a journey where your imagination knows no bounds!

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1. Introduction and Project Details: Everybody, this is Nick Nabelski. I am the author, illustrator, and publisher of 21 books currently on Amazon. It's been a long process, but it's been a lot of fun. I have another class here about how to publish a book on Canva and KPP. This course is all about the same principles, however, we're going to incorporate new tools I tools, such as there are some new AI tools in Canva that we'll be using. There's also chat GPT which is an A I text prompt. We're also going to be using Leonardo and possibly mid journey AI image generators. These programs are robust, they're easy to use. There's some trial and error that goes in some of these programs, but I think you'll find that the output is amazing and you'll be publishing in no time. In our project that we'll be working on is that I want you to create a book covered design using Canva as your layout program and any artwork that you've created, whether it's traditional or whether it's AI generated. Just to get the feel for how to create a book design that is going to be a wow factor. Okay, I can't wait to start teaching. See you soon. 2. Ideas, Outlines, and Stories Using ChatGPT: Okay, now we're going to use Chat GPT, which currently the free version is 3.5 and the paid version is GPT, four or above. This is one of the prompts. Now a prompt is basically a textual instruction. It can either say, write me ten ideas for a children's book or you can have you suggest that, ask you questions back. Some popular prompts You could say, for instance, let's just do the custom one here. Let's say I'm looking for children's book ideas on bullying. This will be an illustrated for children ages six to eight. Now the reason why I put all this information now is I want to be as specific as possible. I want it to be something that will give us ideas. Let's see, I'm looking for children's books. I would say give me ten ideas. Now, I'm not looking for the titles of the book yet, we're just going to say give me ten ideas and then you give them some more information to enter. Not only does it give me the ideas, but it actually tells me the book title, which I wasn't expecting, that tells you all these different ideas and descriptions of the book. Let's take, let's do this one. Superheroes. Superheroes against Bullying. We'll copy that, and I'm going to place it down here and I'm going to ask additional questions. Now, before we do that, we can also hit the regenerate button that will regenerate the same question that I asked it before and just give us ten new ideas. You can also list them. You can set them up in a chart. It's pretty cool. I can show you how to do that a little bit later. Here I got the biggest screen. I'm going to put this down there. Okay. Using this as our prompt, please create an outline for me for a 24 page picture book. If you want, you can say and write it. We'll do that later. I'll show you something really cool picture book. This is just the outline. All right, now we have the idea. You're going to do a little outline for us. Shows us what the cover should be, which is really cool too. That even breaks it down by page. It can't be any easier than this. Now you can use this to write your book or you can have a PT write it for you. I will tell you that P just changed the requirements that you actually have to, you have to tell them if you created, I want to say chat PT, but you have to tell them that you are using it. It was created with AI. I'll talk a little bit more about that once we get into the KD B section. But just keep that in mind, but this is a great place to start. It gives you page by page what to put in here. I think it's pretty cool, right? What I like about Chachi PT is it keeps a thread. And it'll save the thread on the left hand side of when you're doing your book. Now let's take this into consideration and say I always do this. I say, thank you. Can you please write a 24 page book with say, four sentences on each page? Here's the kicker in rhyme. Not only will write it for you, it will do it in rhyme. Let's watch this. It's just really cool. Look at this, This is why people are going crazy over this stuff. Yeah, you can see the whole book now is being processed. This is great for beginners. This is great for people. Now, you don't have to take this verbatim. The more your prompt is personalized, the better your outcome will be. But let's look at this. This is amazing. By the way, I'm not going to publish this book. I suggest you don't either, but word for word, don't do this word for word. I will copyright it in the sense that I created it and I think anytime you create something on chat PT or once we get into the art part, definitely copyright your work. It's a slippery slope right now and we're not sure where this is going to go is who owns the copyrights. But for now, anything you create, whether it's in chat PT or on some of the image generation software, it's considered yours. All right, we're going to show you now. We can take this whole thing. I'm going to take this whole thing. I'm going to copy it now. I think you can copy it. There's a button to copy it, but unfortunately copies the whole thing. Let's see if I can do this little slow. We're going to take, this is step one. Now, I'm not saying to do this or not to do this, but it is available to you as a tool. We're going to go onto the next video. Okay, I can't wait to show you this. 3. Ideas, Outlines, and Stories in Canva: I wanted to show you a little bit about Canva, Canva, I think not really sure what it can do, but it has some new AI features in it that were only beta about a year ago or roughly around that time. One of them is called magic, right? Magic right? This is totally based on their architecture, has nothing to do with GPT. If you notice in my screen, the very bottom here, bottom right, is Canva Assistant now appears almost on every page throughout Canva. And you can click on it and you can do, these are all the AI features you have. Magic, right? Magic. This window pops up and it's basically a prompt. It's asking for a prompt. I want you to be as descriptive as possible. I'm actually going to use a name, well, let's see, I use another name later on in the chorus. His name is Alex. I'll say Alex is a superhero who helps the young and vulnerable who vulnerable against bullying. Now we want to make it clear that Alex is a young person. We'll say, we'll say maybe a ten year old superhero who helps the young and vulnerable against bullying. His strengths are that he is kind, helpful, and courageous. They're not really superpowers, but his weaknesses. And his weakness, he is gullible. That's it. Now we're going to say, right, a story about Alex. Alex in rhyme. Let's see what happens. We'll just say generate here. Hopefully, sometimes Canada will ask you additional questions, which is pretty cool. This is the bad. Let's see what we have here. It's in rhyme. In a world full of bullies, stood tall with his cape and his mask. He answered the call. He was only ten, but he was no ordinary lad. He had a heart of gold and that made him glad. This is wonderful. This is a great story. You're not limited to just chat PT. This is a small story, but the good, what I like about, okay, good thing and a bad thing. The bad thing first, I don't believe it saves as a thread Like we showed you, I showed you in chat, PT saves everything. This one canva does save everything in their file, but it doesn't keep the thread going. I don't believe we have this great story. Let's say that we. I actually like the story. What I'm going to do, let's this second stanza. I really haven't even read it yet, but let's take this now. I'm going to go back over to this canvas assistant. And now I can either summarize the text, I can expand the text, I can rewrite it if I don't like it, or I can edit it. That's really cool because it's all right here in front of you. Now, this is only available in the version. If you do get Canva and you're doing books, I would strongly recommend getting the pro version. And I can help you with that too. I can give you a nice little promo for that code if you want. That's the writing part of Canva. Just other people don't know that. It's a really good story. Now you can make a bigger one. Okay, we can do the same thing we did with Chat GPT, we can make a 24 page. I just wanted to show that to you. That's something that's built into Canva. It's their own proprietary AI system. It's not using it from anywhere else. But that is another cool feature of Canva. 4. Introduction to Leonardo AI: They give us like 30 different models to choose from. This is just like a starting point. You have your personal feed, which for this class I populated it with a couple of characters you can train, you can train it and create your own character. And these are considered fine tuned models. The ones we just saw earlier I Image generation, that's where it, we'll actually be creating our artwork. Within that, you can choose how many images you want to output. Remember, each one of these costs money, anywhere from one token to, I've seen 30 tokens on one image. You want to be careful, especially if you have a free account. Then down here, let me just back up a little bit. The free account, once you create something, it's available for the public to see. There's no privacy. If you get the paid account, you can turn on and off the privacy right here. If I made this public, everybody could see what I'm doing. I choose to have it, not public. These are all private images. These are the dimensions. I always start small because I think if you want to go higher, that much difference, a little bit of difference, but small. Just to test the waters of what you're doing, what you want to do. You can also use this slider to get the exact measurement that you want. All right, then they're using dream shape or V five. I use dream shape seven. I think this is Asian toddler. Let's just make it a toddler altered detailed toddler wearing a beautiful, I don't know what a Uct is, I'm just going to put scarf night lights magically imaginal. This is very well written 32 K resolution detailed illustration anime manga. This is what the style they're looking for. Now we have our original prompt, which I think, yeah, this was the second one, this is the second page. We'll say Alex is an ultra detailed bring. Let's see what happens. What's fun about AI? You can just put in pretty much anything. We have four images and we're going to generate and see what happens. If you like that style of painting, that's what's going to show up that you don't really know always what you're going to get. That's the problem with AI, sometimes get some amazing images. I think you'll see that once you get into the community and see what's there. The other thing I like about Leonardo, which I haven't talked about yet, but the community support is outstanding. Facebook, Leonardo Facebook group is just phenomenal. They have contests every day. They have all different kinds of things. This is really great. This is the exact same style. This one does melts my heart right here. The second one, the fingers look like there's five fingers, which is good. Now, here at the bottom, you can delete the image if you want. You can download it as is. You can copy it to the clipboard zoom. I've tried this. Not crazy about this, I think it's a waste of money. Then you can also remove the background if you want. I will tell you that Canva does a better job at removing the backgrounds. This comes really. But then we have different, they call them up scales. You can do a smooth up scale for cartoon like images or you can do details for like photos. I wouldn't worry about the details so much. And you can do this, it's going to cost you five tokens. For our purposes. Yeah. For the cover, I would definitely scale. Let's upscale this, see what happens. It takes a little bit of time, depending on how busy the system is. This one is pretty cool, pretty fast. There's the upscaled image. Let's say you don't like this background, let's go ahead and remove the background on the original image. Just to show you what that looks like, it's two tokens. I'll show you what the part I'm not crazy about. It's close but not perfect. It might have already done it for me. No background, there it is. Let's you can see that there's some sections here missing the sparkler, missing. If I go in right here, you're going to see near the hair, there's still shading in there that they missed. What I would do is I would throw it into Can Canva has a superior, I think the background remover. All right, so we have our images I'm going to do. Let's go back to the upscale. And I'm going to download this image, it's pretty fast. All right? And then I'm going to go back into Canva, now we can get rid of this guy. He's no longer needed. I'm going to load to uploads over here on the left. Load, there it is, bring it over. I'm going to show you something that we can do in the next video. It's really cool. This is not going to be a good cover, right? First of all, his feet are missing. But it would make a nice image, Alex feeling you could actually take this. Going to cut it. I hope this works. Yeah, we can select, make it a little bit smaller, maybe 24. Now here I can go in and change the spacing of the line. So make it, make it bigger. If I wanted to do that, maybe can like that. Alex feeling low and blue. Bullied at school not sure what to do. It's beautiful, right? We just have to make it Go off the page a little bit more now. Almost right there. I need a little bit more stuff there to make it work. But isn't that beautiful? This is blowing me away. How gorgeous this is. The kid is cute. Now, obviously you say, well, wait a minute, I didn't create this. Yeah, you didn't create it, but you're putting it together. You're putting the whole thing together and you're making your own. Like I said before, it's a slippery slope. You have to make the decision of what you want to do. Maybe you want to change the text altogether or maybe you want to throw this into procreate. If you have those skills or Photoshop and do something with it. You can also take him back over and change this color of his hair and play around with it. This is the next great thing. This is what I want you to do for your book. I want you to set up at a couple pages to show us what you've done. Whether you do a cover for the project or if you wanted to do one page like this would be acceptable as well. That's the end of this video. I'm going to show you another really cool feature of Leonardo AI. And you're going to love it. Stick around. Don't leave, keep on working hard. All right? Thank you very much. We'll see you in the next video. 5. Cool Extras in Leonardo AI for Image Generation: Part two of the lesson. Now here we remember we had these really cool images that came in. I want to show you something that's built into Leonardo that some of the other software programs or apps don't have. I'm going to go to this over here. It says to Image Generation. That's what we did in the previous video, and we're going to click on AI canvas. Ai cannabis is like a totally different, it's a part of Leonardo, but it's like its own app built into it. It does a couple of different things. One of the things it can do, what we'll be showing is on the tool box, on the left hand side, we're going to upload a picture load from a computer. We have this boy right here. You can see that image comes in nice and big. What it will ask you to do is to bring it down. You won't lose resolution on this image, but a bounding box right here and make sure the lock is unlocked. Then we have the tool box over here on the right hand side. This is my pro account. We have something it's called in paint. Out paint. Out paint is going to allow us to fill in the box here with additional information about this picture. We don't have to draw anything. It will draw it for us on the left hand side and on the right hand side. As far as the images go, we would just say, okay, give me four variations or three variations. I'll do three variations. Make sure out paint is selected. This is in paint, we'll be showing you that a little bit later. And then out paint then. We're just going to keep this at 05:12 Don't worry about these other settings for right now. And then I'm going to need a prompt here. I'm just going to put build out background. It's like something that will help me remind myself of what it is. And then we're going to generate, this is only going to take up three tokens, which is nice. And hopefully there's enough information there that it will do it at the same time give something really nice there that's beautiful. That's a real nice, let's say we need, this is a perfect square, Our book is a perfect squares. That one. Let's see which one is better, that one. This one Almost the same? Yeah, they're almost the same. We'll just choose that one. Now you have an image that you can download from here. Just by hitting that, you can download the artwork. It will come in as an extended version of the software of the picture here it is real nice image there that you can use then in painting is a little bit different in painting is we need to click that off, now we're do the same thing. All the setting is pretty much stay the same. But now we're going to do is, let's say we wanted to say we wanted to put a hat on his head. What I would do is I would go into, I would draw a mask on his head. Now, here is the brush size. You can make it bigger or smaller. You don't have to be really too accurate. Just get the head part here, right there. Now in the prompt, we're going to say replace with hat. Then we're going to generate it. Now it's going to give us three options of three different hats. This is a nice little feature, nice little editing feature right into Leonardo. This one's not too good, that one's not too good, that's not too good. We're going to cancel that. They did a pretty lousy job actually. Let's see if I make it a little bit bigger of an area. Let's see if I can do that. Let's do the same thing. Let's generate it. Let's see what it gives us. Sometimes with AI, it's hit or miss. But after you get a hang of everything, that's better. Now, it did remove some of his hair, that's a little bit better. That's a little bit better. His eyes might have changed a little bit. I think that's the first one of the best. And then we can accept it or not. That's one part of it. The other part of in painting is let's just accept this. We can remove things. The clouds with sky. I'm just going to say fill in with sky and then generate the prompt is now the other thing you can do. I'll show that to you in a second here. See that one's good. It got rid of the clouds, gave me something totally different. What is this thing on the bottom? I don't know what that is. I guess I didn't fix that. I guess it's like that. It's strange. So be careful of what you're asking for. Okay. I just want to look at this. Let's see what this is on the left hand side. Sometimes it fills it like with gibberish. There's some things here, I don't think that's the artist or anything, but sometimes it fills it with gibberish. I'm going to go and leave it the way it was. I can even go back, I think, to get rid of that hat saying this is nice, it's got some other things built into it, are the things that we're going to talk about today. I hope this really makes a difference for you. It's a nice feature, especially building out the background. I think that's just amazing that you can create something so small and keep on on it. Maybe you want to make a map. I haven't tried that yet, but maybe you want to make a map and I'll just keep on building things out from there. Something like in Lord of the Rings, how it has that map in different areas of the shire. That's it. This is canvas. It's called canvas. Yes, this is canvas. Canvas. It's in beta. 6. Midjourney.AI and More!: I just wanted to show you the four newest elements. We're going to go into image generation. If this is an already selected DXL fine tuned model, go to the drop down menu and you can find it here. There's a list of all the other fine tuned models. We want to make sure that you have DXL 0.9 It is beta, but let's take a look here. You can see that there are some images populated in my account. Here are the new elements. This is really cool. Make it smooth. Here they now they have this thing called coloring book. Folk illustration, Kids illustration and tune in anime. Now, at the moment you can do, well, you could do all four if you want, but you can combine them also. But for this instance, we're going to do one at a time and we're going to do coloring book. This is a very simple, we have this, I've already generated this. I'm not going to generate this one again, but I will show you the other ones. This one was coloring book came out really nice. If we go into folk art and unclick that one, let's see what we can generate here. Here is folk art, cool. It is very folk almost paper cut quality. We'll go back into elements and we'll click Illustration. Kids Illustration. Confirm this time. Do three. Let's generate that. Take a look at what that looks like. Obviously, this won't be a coloring book anymore, but you get the idea of the style. The coloring book one is just for coloring books. It creates coloring book art there. That's really nice illustrations, it's not as fine detailed. Then the last one is tune in anime which is really high quality. What do you see? This? It's going to look like almost three dimensional artwork. It really opens up a lot of possibilities. I'd like to say this, if you're not an illustrator, it's wonderful, right? Because it's going to give a new opportunities, all the new artwork to you. If you are an artist, don't get scared about this, because it's going to make your life better. As you can use your own artwork, you can expand on your artwork. You can do image to image. There's a lot of stuff you can do, but here you can see the quality. A lot more details, still line art. If I didn't make a coloring book, let's just change all this stuff. Get rid of two D. In fact, let's just do this. Let's see a book about a three D image of butterflies, see what happens, spflies, and then we have tune in anime. Let's see what happens. It might get really crazy good here. Art work a lot better, isn't it? Also, there's a bunch of them here. You get the idea. You can just have a lot of fun if you combine them. You can combine the elements and have a lot of fun with this look for the next video, and I'll talk about the other elements, which is insane. 7. New AI Tool in Canva: Magic Expand!: Go into our image generator now, we're going to get rid of this because we don't want that anymore. We're going to add this prompt. I always like to add my negative back in. Now we're going to add elements, but we're going to get off of this Dl. I'm going to choose absolute reality. By the way, when I'm in kids illustrations, the last video, make sure all these are shut off. Photoreal prompt magic alchemy because they're for high end images. Definitely, I would strongly suggest you do the negative prompts. Now, I've asked Leonardo myself if they can incorporate negative prompts in the front end or the back end, I guess you'd say. There it is. It's pretty nice, huh? Beautiful images. Now, what if we take it one step further? Let's see all these different elements. They add some more. My God, I think they added another one. Now we have 12, 13 elements here. You can choose, you can combine them again, if you want to make it ebony and gold. See what it looks like. All right. I hope you have fun with this. I have to do another video just on Leonardo because it's so complex. But basically, if you follow my instructions, you should have no problem. The only problem you might have is with the negative prompts. If you don't include those, you get some crazy images. The support group is phenomenal. Oh my gosh, that looks amazing. Look at this, they even did like a character sheet. Is that insane or All this is gibberish. All the text, look how gorgeous that is. That could be, that could be a book cover, something. And it's beautiful. What do you think elements Leonardo? It's pretty amazing. I am adding another video on dolly. Dolly is up their game. They added dolly three. And so look for that next. 8. New AI Tool in Canva: Magic Grab: All right. So I promised that I would do one video on dolly version three from open. I now it's going to look different, right? This is not the actual program. What I'm using now is the free version of Do in Microsoft. If you have a account, if you have a Microsoft account, Outlook email, and you don't even have to have an Outlook E mail, you can, I have, this account is under my Gmail. But what's really cool about this now, they only give you, I believe it's 100 credits per week and then it will recharge. I'm down to 38, so I don't have much to go. I'm not sure the parameters of when it starts and when it ends, but I'm hoping to get another 100. And what's good about being is that each I could do four images. It only cost me one credit, or two credits, I would say. It's not quite there where Leonardo is, but I just completed a book. I can't show you right now because it's not printed yet. But I just completed a book using every image now is from Dolly. In that book, I didn't use Leonardo at all. What I really liked about it, it was consistent. The styles I chose, it gave me consistent output. I didn't put one negative prompt in there, There was no abnormalities early up their game. I just used it for images for children. A children's book that I'm working on. Let's try this. I'm going to put in a very simple create an illustration, an illustration of a duck in a leather jacket. And then I'll, I could try Pixar style. Let's, I don't like putting people's names in the prompts because it's, I don't know if they're getting I don't think they're getting royalties for that. I believe that every time someone puts a name in a prompt, that person should get a royalty. What do you think? I think that's the way they should do it. Okay, Leather Jacket in Bohemian style or something like that. Bmi, Bohemian Bohemian style art. I don't know if I keep on doing this now. Let's say I want to this, let's say I like this one. It's really slow. There we go. When that thing comes up, you know that it's working. This is dolly three through Microsoft being you can get it through open but then it's 20 bucks a month. I believe. You get access to both dolly three and a PT 4.5 I think that's the latest version in 4.0 Did my entire last book all in Dolly 32 months ago. You wouldn't hear me saying that because I didn't like the artwork coming from Dolly. A big difference. I just wanted to show you, show you that really quickly. This is the free version. I'm not sure if it's temporary, if it's permanent, but you have access to GPT four and Dolly three through being. All right, enjoy. 9. New AI Tool in Canva: Game Changer: Okay. Before we move on to the KDP section, I wanted to discuss some other apps that are available to you. This site that I'm in right now is called Discord. Almost like the old fashioned Bolton boards where you add lot of people in this at the same time. This is an animation software, Discord Pka, Leonardo has also a Discord account. I have a Discord account here, you can find out more updates on what's happening. It's the same thing you write in the prompt below what you're looking for By going to, if you look on the left hand side, there's these challenges here. You can click on this one, find out what the challenges for the day and see what people are doing. They give nice prizes. First place is 500 tokens. Second place, 300 and so on. And that's Leonardo. I don't usually use the discord for Leonardo, but if you wanted to get into mid journey, mid journey, I think it's only available. I may be wrong on Discord channel, that's where most people do their stuff. They have Newbie folders here where you can, this is really cute, you can put in, this is very simple, very simple prompt. Let's see what they started. Oh, okay, they started with this image. They type that image in in they're prompt, and they got the really cute faces. See what these other ones are. The reason why I won't be able to show you anything in here except for what the public feeds, is that you have to have an account. Right now, I don't have an account. They have a trial. Let's see what the trial gives us. I don't think it's maybe a seven day trial. I think I've already used that up. Here we go, 25 minutes lifetime. Oh my gosh. That's horrible. Yeah. They don't really give you much of anything here. Even their basic plan. See if I can make this larger. The basic plan is $10 And the basic plan for the year, if you do Leonardo, it's $10 You only get 200 minutes of P time. How many images? I guess that's the way they do it. They don't do it by images. And then $30 15 hours a month pro plan is much better. But I tell you, I just think it's a little bit stingy to be honest with you. But that's mid journey. The output, I think it's almost equal to Leonard notes. The way it works here is you just type in a prompt at the bottom. Best way to do this is to see what other people are doing. If I go into the newcomer rooms, they go the newbie room, let's say there's something here that you like. You can do the same thing, you can copy it and write in your own prompt. To me, it's just a little archaic. I might be wrong, Like I said, here's the most recent images that are hit right here. So yeah, the quality is almost identical. I really can't do anything because I don't I don't have an account with them. I'm talking about this is not a good choice here. We don't want to do playground. Do we want to do playground? I.com I did this once before. I can't believe I did it again. There we go. This is playground. Images again are very similar in quality as they are in mid Journey and Leonardo here, these are rising stars. This is the community. Same thing. You can select any one of these and you can find out what the prompt you can edit, copy, prompt, remake, that type of thing. Then they have different categories. These are mostly animals, Anime which is cool fashion food, all the way down on my feet. I don't know if I don't have anything in here right now. You can also rate images. When you rate it, you can get some bonus. You can get some bonus time or something, Bonus credits. I think if you want to pay, I think it's $12 as well per month. And you can see what they're doing here. They're doing almost identical. Most of these AI programs are around the same price. They're around 12 to $15 per month. You can tell that the quality is really good. Playground. I, another option besides mid journey. Right now it might be free. Leonardo and even mid journey, probably your creation. Sometimes if you're looking for a text, they'll put in gibberish. Well, this is an AI generator that will actually allow you to create text either as a graphic or a logo, and it does a really good job of this. We can see here, they also have other pictures as well, but their claim to fame really is the text. And being able to include text in your images, let's just try this. We're going to put Alex Bullying, superhero Sc for a poster. Create a young boy in cape and superhero clothes. See what happens. I don't know, I haven't used this in a really long time. Let's just see what happens. Right now, it's free, which is nice, I believe. I don't think I'm paying for this. As you go on and more and more of these AI programs you're going to see that. All right, so this is a very simple basic. I wouldn't even, I guess that's to get more descriptive against Buller. I don't even know if that's the right word. We can go back and do more. Let's just say let's do this one and we remix it. We do a three D render, then we generate that. I think I have to wait a minute. I have to wait 73 seconds before I do it again, but you get the idea. This is ID gram and that is another one. There's a lot of AI programs out there. Just go to Google and do a search on AI image generators, see what comes up. But they build around the same principles that are in Leonardo. So if you master or just even start using Leonardo to get a feel for how it's all set up, you can probably jump into almost anything. All right, guess what's next? Kdp. And there are some new features in KDP, which we'll talk about. 10. Create a Cover in Canva: I'm in Canva. If I click on this, I edit Photo, and now I can grab a text. The text is Gobble Go Grill. But what's cool about it is I can now take that text and remove it. I can cut it, It's gone. Oh my God, this is a. What happened to delete now, I can put my own. This is great, this is amazing, this is really cool. Canva, you did it. 11. Six Remarkable AI Tools from Canva: I have a series of images that I brought in from Dolly three. I'm going to bring that one in right now. You can see what this can do. Now I think this is perfectly compositioned composition. But you can see this is my border where I can go up to my area where my picture can go to the margins. All I do is I click on, I click on the photograph or the image. I go to Edit Photo, and I choose Background Removal. One is one button click and it removes my background. It really handy, See that, is that beautiful. Really quick, really fast, and the detail is super, really good. Now let's take a look at something. There's a little mistake here. We can fix it. Because I can go into it really closely, you can see that his eyes are also transparent. If you look here on the left hand side of the configuration, there's some adjustments we can make. We can go into the restore section, which is this selection with our tool. We can now restore his eye color. There is nothing that has been removed here. In fact, we probably want to go around here again just to make sure that nothing else was removed inadvertently. Everything else looks pretty good. I probably would make a Ted smaller and just go in here and make sure that this also is not transparent. I can increase if I can do that or not. But everything else looks pretty good right here, I can fix that. Not too many of the other software programs do this for you. You can definitely make this smaller. And it might have taken, for instance, the neck. The only thing I don't like about it, I can't hit shift a straight line. I have to just do it by eye and that sometimes it's just extra work. See how nice that is? That is background remover also appear. You can see that there's some things that got taken out. This will be covered up by a border anyway. So it doesn't really matter that it's so precise Then down here, in fact, I don't even know if there's a stage here or what it is. I can just fill that right back in. In this case, I would do a brush size but you get the idea, isn't that nice. Enter and then you'd be done. Now I'm not going to do that. I'm going to go back here and we're going to do an undo or just get rid of this picture altogether. Cool. But I'm going to do undo. This is for demonstration. Only. Bring back my size, you can see it better. Now, here is, that's background mover. I didn't want that microphone there. It looks strange. I go into go in a magic eraser and remove this. And it's going to be thinking it's better to pick your brush size first because it's going to think it's going to process link this a little bit smaller and now I can go in and remove this mic stand. Might clip off his tentacle. I'm not sure I got it now. I can just put it in another one that seems more reasonable. I can actually add this microphone right here. That's a nice feature. What it does is it completes the background so that you can then continue on with your work. So that's another one. All right, now I can also, we want to use magic edit. Let's say we want to add a hat. We're just going to go over here, continued hat, it give you so much flexibility. Here's the different hats, that's the woman's hat. Other hat, if you don't like it, generate nude results, just keep going till you find the one that you want. I should probably write big hat because there you go, that's got a beret, some really funky things here. That's probably the best one. Go back here and I'm just going to next is probably my favorite magic grab. Magic grab will take your, your foreground image and remove it from the background while still keeping the background intact. It's pretty amazing. So we're just going to click on this image and click Grab with one button. You don't have to do much, you just sit here, be thinking a lot. Now the only thing that might slow it down is Cannava just announced these programs and it made a huge difference. It took everything, All the people, there's the background. But isn't that cool? Let's say you wanted a totally different background, you can do that. Now with this, you have a background. You're not losing the background, which is amazing. I like this a lot and I use it a lot. Picture of me, I have some text here and say I wanted to remove that text. I click on Edit Photo, Grab Text, and what it will do is it'll turn that text now that's embedded in the picture, a text box that you want to delete and that's gone. That's n. I don't know if it will do this or probably won't do that little carrot up to down carrot. But it does everything else. It does a great job removing text that's unwanted. It's a great tool. I strongly recommend you use all six of these tools. They'll definitely make your life easier and I can't wait to see what you do. 12. KDP Publishing Updates (AI and Categories): Everybody. By now in this lesson, you should have learned a little bit about chat GPT or if you had your own script, you have your own script. You could have created Word or pretty much anything. Canva, I use canvas. So I do some artwork here, but most of my work here is just layout. I use canvas for layout because it's got a really nice system. We're going to show you that system right now. We're going to go up to the very top right and say create a design. I'm just going to do my custom at the very bottom of that pop up window. It says custom size at the very bottom. And I'm going to make sure you select this first increments, we'll be doing a inches. We want to do 8.5 " by. I'm going to make this a square book, 8.5 ", and we're going to create a new design. Now let me just tell you that when you're creating a book, you need two files. You need the interior PDF. You need the cover, which is set up a little bit differently than this file here, and I'll show you that in the next video. Also, what I like about Canva, so easy, so intuitive even for beginners or intermediate learners, is that what I usually do? Now, this is the default. I'm not sure if this is remembered from my last book or if it's the default, But go to the file at the very top here. Go to File and View Settings. We want to make sure that every single one of these is checkmarked. Show rulers and guides. Add guides, show margins, show print, plead. All right, now this is a very basic lesson, but I want you to understand how easy this can be. If you see there's a dotted line in the middle here that is your margin. This area between the page and that data line is your margin. Anything? Let's see if I can get a quick arrow. I love how fast this is. So I have an arrow. Anything here in this area is the live area. This middle part right here, From here to here. You can see it's highlighting itself, it's the live area. Anything in here is called the margin. This is the trim, 8.5 by 82. Then beyond it is our bleed bleed. If you don't know what bleed is, if you take a regular book, this color goes off of the page all four ways. This is called the full bleed as opposed to this being just a white page. There's no bleed in this at all. You can also have a half bleed if I have any in this book. But you can also do a blade where it's just top part is white and bottom part is color. That's important because what's great about this is let's say, let's pretend this was the graphic right here. You can see how it goes off of the page. Well, that means that edge will have color on it. And it's going to make for a nice, when the printer goes to cut this, give me a nice straight line of color. Now K DP is very strict. Canva so much, but you want to definitely heap anything beyond this. Maybe probably a half an inch to the edge. It's dangerous because KDP will ding you when you go to print your final file. It will tell you you're too close to the edge and you'll have to redo it. I'd just like to keep it in this big area in the middle unless I want it to bleed. Having said that, we I can't show I don't think I have any books that I can show you this. Let's see if we. Here's one. This is a template that comes with it. It's a very simple book. You can see though that this is the title. This graphic here bleeds off, You see that, But this one does if you want the barn to show, you definitely want to bring it into the live area. If you want it to go off the screen or off the page, then do that. But if you don't really care, I would keep it in the live area. Now, let's just use this template as template for us here on Canva, you can say front cover. Now, I told you before that's a second file that we will be creating. But just for purposes of showing you this page, one would be the cover, the next I would add a page and it's very easy to do that. Just add it here. The next page can either be blank or it can be a title page. The title page is usually just my logo, or you could do a miniature version of your book. And I'd like to put my publishing information right there in my website as well. Next, you can either call this blank or title page. Now. Some people put the copyright page first, some people put the title page first. I would just look at a bunch of different books and you can decide what you want to do. We will need to add a copyright page at some point. It's usually page two or three. In this course, I will give you a PDF file that you can just take it as it is. It's a very simple, I found out on the Internet page, tells the reader what rights you have to the information. I'm going to assume that you know copyright what that means, but it is essentially give you the right to make copies for yourself to sell. What I also do also put in the copyright pages. I will also include my ISBN number. We'll talk about more of that one. When we get to KDP, I also put the copyright notice of either my company name or my personal name. Now, this is a very simple template. I'm not going to show too much of this, but you can see there's a warning. If you can look at page seven, what stands out to you? The text is too close to the edge. We want to put that in. The other assets I'm not really concerned about that looks intentional. I'm going to leave that the way it is, but I think the text definitely, you'll get dinged if that's too close to the edge. Some other things with Canva, this is creating a new page. This is deleting the page. This is duplicating the page. Let's say you like this way. This is set up, you want to duplicate it, it's exact duplicate of the previous page. You can lock a page if you decide that I don't want to mess with this, I don't want to make any mistakes. And you can lock it, unlock that. You can also move them down or up also. This is going to be a really quick lesson on Canva. There are different viewing you can do It look almost like a storyboard here. I wouldn't call it thumbnail, I would call it more like a storyboard. You can see the flow of it. You can move pages around very easily. It's easy to use. Down here, if I click out of this grid view, you can look at the thumbnail, which at the very bottom, this little carrot. Now you're looking at the thumbnails and it's really quick to look at that as well. It also has a layering system, which is nice. You can click on Position. You can do it two different ways. You can either do it through arranging it. It's either forward, back to the front, or the back. Or I like to do this because I'm used to, if you're used to using layers, that makes the most sense for you. But you can see how many different objects, how many different assets or elements are on this page. These are all taken from element, which is the second tab on the left, the design elements, and you can look for anything. It's got a huge database of images creator images you can get. Let's see if I want scarecrow or something like that, scarecrow, then it's going to give me graphics of scarecrows, photos of scarecrows, videos of scarecrows. You can put in an audio of a scarecrow song, I guess you can do that. This is a great location for putting everything together once you have all of your artwork or you can also do some different things as far as getting either your own artwork or third party artwork. I'm not going to talk about the cover next. We're going to stop here and I'm going to show you more about elements and uploads. Right back. 13. Project: Upload a Cover Design: Okay. We talked about, at first we were thinking about how we were going to do this. Either we could bring it in all together, which made sense. But the only problem with bringing it in all together, like doing a copy all or that type of thing, it wouldn't be set up like this. And I think this is a better way for it to be set up instead of copying the whole thing over to Canva, since it's already saved here. Anyways, as long as this is a free account on your account, you can just simply do this. We can go, this is page two. We can just copy here. Go back into Canva. Okay, so now we can bring in that one page, right? Remember this is going to be our cover. Just for temporary purposes of showing you how to do this, we won't print this cover, but this is what we're going to say, cover. The next page can either be the copyright or get the copyright page. Well, you know what, I'll do a title page. Let me do one more and that, remember that's going to be the copyright page. These are just markers to remind you what's coming on that page. This is our first page right here. We're going to go back to our text and we're going to paste. Now we have just the one, we don't have to worry about the whole thing coming over because we know that it's saved in chat GPT. You can set up this in several different ways. You can either put it at the bottom of your page with your graphic, you can have a picture of a boy here. And that's all in elements on Canva. The other thing that we talked about, we're just about to talk about are third party apps. Those are built, I think Pixabay is built into Canva. But there are also other, these are royalty free images. You can just say Cartoon Boy for instance. The problem with this is the graphics are hit or miss. Let's say this was Alex. We would save this for the next page. Again, this is just a rough, doesn't have to be a final images. This is just to get an idea of how your book will be laid out. All right. Hi, meet Alex Low and Blue Bully School, Not sure what to do. You could have that be one page and cut this, and then have this on the next page. What I would do, especially if this is a rhyme, make sure that they're on a new line. Make sure the rhymes are at the end of the sentence, like that. Same with this one. Just better. Now you can either put the text down at the bottom. You could put at the top, you could put it in. You go back to elements, you can get a thought balloon, thought bubble, or a speaker. That type of thing occurs. It should be white, I think. Don't you think? I think you can put the border as being, this is cool. You can have a border that, although that doesn't really fit. Do I wouldn't do that. But if it's a comic book, sometimes they put text up there. It's your choice. Also, you can make the font like a graphic. Do something fun. In the tab over here on the left, you have all these different I've done in one book like this. You can make it smaller, put it over here, maybe make him go over here. These are just some ideas, something like that. Now this one's grouped with this bottom piece. I would just get rid of that and then put your stuff in there if you wanted to meet Alex. That's something to consider. Okay. That's one way. That is with elements or was that elements? I think came from Pixabay. Other ones that are available to us through Canva, but you can also pick up, you can go to these sites. Splash is one splash.com. Pexels, another one. These are all photograph, it's those high end like giddy images. But these are free. You can make an attribution of where it came from, who did it or you don't have to. You can make a donation or you don't have to. It's cool for the people who are just starting out, there's some really nice images in there. The other way of course, is through an image generator, Leonardo do. That's my go to right now because their free account gives you 150, pretty much 300 credit every day. Whereas mid journey, I think you only get like 15 credits a day, which is not enough to really test out the waters. Leonardo is a little cheaper as well. I believe you get for $12 a month, you get 8,500 credits. That's what I'm on right now. I have a professional account mid journey. They give you like 200 credits for ten bucks. I'm not here to bash mid journey, but I'm just telling you that Leonardo, once we get into that, you'll see what a wonderful program it is. 14. Create a Cover in Canva: All right. All right. All right. All right, here we are. This is the part of these, we're getting close to the end. We are going to create the cover. As I told you way in the beginning, the cover is a different set up than the regular part of the internal part of the book. There are some different parts to this. Remember we talked about how to set this up? It's basically double. It's 8.5 by 8.5 It would be 17 by 8.5 The first number is the x axis. The second number is the y axis. The first number is length. All right? X and y is the height. Now the only thing that's different is I add a little bit more padding so you might see that it's 17.5 I tend to do a little bit more for a bigger bleed. I can give you that you can actually go on KDP. There's a place where I'll send you the link on where to look at what page size you should be using for the book size that you're printing. Here is one of my books. I use the background feature in Canva, there's some backgrounds here, you can change that, you can click on that. Something busy like that. Don't do that. You want to keep it nice and even keeled. This is the little angry marker. It's the first of a series of emotion driven books. I like to put my other books on the back page. If you look at this really closely, if I hover around this first part, you see that each one of there are several elements on this page. This was drawn by me in procreate this text. You might remember from this one. I told you I used it. It's from this one right here. Cold, smooth, and tasty. The same principle. I like that a lot. In fact, I use it throughout the whole book. It's consistent theme with me. I have this same font throughout all my other books too. Some of the stuff was from Canva. The house, I believe is from Canva. This guy here is from Canva. That little house is from Canva. Except for the borders. Everything else is created in procreate. What do we got here? We've got the same set up. We have the margin, right? This is the margin. We have the bleed. This background bleeds. It's a full bleed. Remember that full bleed then I dragged over a guide in the middle. That's for me to figure out where everything is going to go. Even though this is the cover, we still have to think about the margin. There's going to be a margin right here in the front. We want it to be nice and clean. I have this additional graphic going off the page as well. The only thing that you really have to worry about is you can even make this blank if you want. But I always like to put a little bit of information about the book in this space. Right here, Right here. Who, what happened? There we go. This space right here is reserved. You want to keep that blank? Have nothing in there because KP will put the barcode and also the SPN number in there. We'll talk about that more in the KDP section. When you go to print, you share, you download. We don't want, remember we want PDF, PDF, standard PDF, print. That'll give us the highest resolution. I use RGB for ebooks and I use CMYK for print. Cmyk is only available in the Pros. You really should get the pro version if you're making lots of books because this just outweighs so many different things, then that's it. And you'll be saving as a PDF file, that is one of the files you will be uploading to KP. We'll get to that in just about 10 minutes or so. That's the cover I'll see in the next video. 15. KDP Publishing Updates (AI and Categories): All right, I'm onto KP now. P, I have another course in skillshare that talks about Canva and KDP. All right? It's before most of the AI information, it's a totally different course. But what I suggest you do, if you want to get to know KDP and really understand how it all works, definitely watch that class I got. I have five videos on how to pick your keywords, your categories, how to set up your page, how to set up your account instead of regurgitating, all that. I just wanted to showcase now what is different KDP. There are some differences now in 2023, the biggest change is basically what this course is all about. And that is A, I, I don't see it as a problem, I'll tell you why. All they want to do is they want to be able to create a better experience for the reader, their clients, or customers. All they want you to do is tell them if your content is AI generated or AI assisted. And when we click on this part right here, AI generated information created by Leonardo Chap Canva. Or images, texts or translations. Okay, Created by artificial intelligence. Then there's something called AI assisted. That means that you created it and you might have used it as you might have used it to edit, or refine, or error check, or proof it or whatever to improve it. Ai assisted doesn't need to be mentioned. I suggest you go over this area of the bookshelf in the guidelines to understand it more thoroughly. But my understanding is that I generated if you create something in Leonardo, if it's written by Che EPT or if it's written by Canada, you definitely want to say that. Okay. You don't want them to come after you and say, hey, you're booted from the system and I wouldn't take the chance. I assisted is content you created yourself, but you used AI based tools to help you or assist you in producing the work. What I did is I went to Amazon and took a look at some of these. This is what a reader would see. I coloring book, I generated coloring books for all ages and skill levels over here generated everything here is really just to show the created by, if it's original artwork, if it's original text, or if you did some AI generation, I don't see a problem with it. I think it's more or less just extra thing you have to fill out once you're in bookshelf. That the other thing that's new and some controversy about this with many authors that I've been reading about is the categories it used to be. You get two categories all then now they've changed the three categories. You can edit your categories here and you can go through and decide what your categories are. Prior to this, what happened was they gave you two categories and they were just really boring categories, very generalized. Somebody figured out a hack where you could E mail KDP and say, I want these ten categories. A lot of them are super narrow down focused niche categories. Reason why they did that. It was faster for them and easier for them to become a number one best seller if it was a really fine niche for their book, they did away with that. I think it was probably a major hassle for them. They came up with this new idea for three categories. What I've heard is that there's a lot of controversy that there's some duplicates, there's some ghosting that they're listed, but they're not there. I think that there's more and more coming out on that. As soon as I know more information, I'll post it here. But for now, this is how you would just select your categories. That's the way it is. The only two things that I've noticed that are new and different here is that there's one other thing they did. They raised their printing price. Used to be, I think 365 for a 24 page book. I think it's now 420. You have to charge more and you might get a lower margin. Now, Amazon is probably the biggest bookseller out there, but it's not the only bookseller out there. There's Eye Books, which is Apple, and there are some other publishers like Book Baby, where you can print a book. There wouldn't necessarily, just because you do it here, I wouldn't stop doing it here. But look at other choices that are out there. There's some other types of books out there, but this is the cheapest. No money down. You don't have to pay a cent unless you're getting a proof of your book. You can order author books for cheaper than a reader could do it if you go to a school or something and you can bring some books with you, I still use it because it's very convenient for me. I set it. Forget it. If you really want to make an impact in Amazon, you have to do advertising. Unfortunately, I will not cover advertising here. I've always broke even with advertising. I've never done really well with advertising, but I have a lot of friends, they're doing really well in the six figures with advertising that you'll have to figure that out on your own. But that's pretty much this course. It's really about how to help you become a better writer, how you can become a better, that's much better illustrator, but you can produce books quicker, more efficiently, and really come out with some amazing things. I will once in a while add some more videos here and there to supplement what I already have. But this is the gist of the class. I hope you enjoy it and I can't wait to see your projects. 16. Project: Upload a Cover Design: All right, this is Nicks, the final project. I want you to upload a 17 by 8.5 if that's your book size. If your book size eight by eight, then do 16 by eight. I want you to have the front cover on the right hand side, the back cover on the left hand side. Leave room for ISBN and Barcode. Put your website in there and anything that you want, I want it to be laid out nicely, just like I taught you about margins and everything. And then do a screenshot and upload it to the site. You can use artwork from Canva. You can use artwork from Leonardo or Mid Journey or Dolly or whatever else you find that the artwork is useful. Then let me see what you've done and I hope you've enjoyed this class. Please leave a comment and a review. I really appreciate it, Good or bad, and I'll see you next time. Bye bye. 17. BONUS: How to Build Consistent Characters and Fine Tuned Models in AI: Have you ever found it challenging to maintain consistent characters in your illustrations? It's a common hurdle, especially when you're working on a series or a children's book. The characters appearance, style, even their personality, need to remain steady throughout various scenarios imposes. Consistency is crucial not only for the visual coherence of your work, but also for the narrative integrity of your story. But here's some good news. This challenge can be tackled effectively using an advanced tool called LeoneroAI. This artificial intelligence software can be your ally in creating and maintaining character consistency in your illustrations. It can help you establish a initial prompt, explore prompt variations, train your model for a high level of consistency and avoid repetition. Are you ready to conquer character consistency in your illustrations? With the help of Leonardo AI. Let's explore how AI can help us solve this challenge. The first step towards achieving consistent characters is to establish a clear initial prompt. This is no small task. It's like setting the stage for a play where every detail matters. Your initial prompt should be as detailed and specific as possible, outlining the key features and context of your character. Think of this as a blueprint that Leonardo AI will use to create your character. For instance, you might say, create a character named Danny with dark brown hair, big eyes wearing a blue hat, sitting in the jungle. Notice how every detail is specified. The character's name, physical features, clothing, and even the environment they're in are all clearly laid out. This level of detail gives Leonardo AI a clear direction and helps maintain consistency in the character's design. Before you even begin to explore different poses or scenarios for your character, this initial prompt is crucial. Remember, this initial prompt sets the foundation for your character's appearance and environment. Now let's delve into the technique of prompt variations. As we navigate the fascinating world of character creation, it's paramount to maintain the identity of our characters even as we explore different scenarios or poses, the character's core identity should remain the same. For instance, let's go back to our friend Danny, the dark haired, big eyed character in the blue hat. Now we want to see Danny in a new scenario, say playing with a puppy. Our prompt could be Danny wearing a blue hat, playing with a puppy. Illustration children's book. Notice how we maintain Danny's identity including the blue hat while introducing a new action. That's the art of prompt variations. Remember, consistency is key. Even as you introduce new actions or context, always refer to the character's established identity. This not only makes your characters more relatable, but also reinforces their appearance and personality by consistently referring to your character's established identity. You reinforce their appearance and personality. If you're still unsatisfied with the results, you might consider training a custom model. This isn't as daunting as it might sound. It all starts with gathering a substantial collection of reference images that feature the character you're trying to bring to life. These images can vary, imposes, expressions and scenarios, but they all should clearly represent your character's unique features and style. Once you've collected these images, you can feed them into your AI model. This process is often referred to as training the model. During this phase, your AI learns from the data you've provided, picking up on patterns and nuances that define your character. As the model trains, it becomes more proficient at generating images that match your characters look and feel. This can result in higher level of consistency tailored to your exact requirements. Remember, the more reference images you provide, the better your results will be training a custom model gives you more control over your character's appearance. Finally, crucial to avoid using the exact same prompt with the same seed, you see repetition. While it may seem like a safe play can actually be a pitfall. When you repeat the same exact prompt with an identical seed, you'll end up with the same set of images over and over again. It's like replaying a movie scene. The actors, the actions, the background, everything remains the same. So how do you keep things fresh while still maintaining character consistency? The trick lies in making subtle variations to your prompt. Let's say we stick with our character Danny. Instead of asking for Danny wearing a blue hat sitting in the jungle every time, let's try something like Danny with his blue hat. It's exploring the jungle this way, the essence of Danny remains the same, but the scenario changes, breathing new life into each illustration. By following these steps, you can streamline the process of achieving consistent character designs in Leonardo AI. Now let's talk about the set. What I might talking about when I talk about seed. Seed is like a fingerprint of each picture. Each picture gets a seed. If you use the same set over and over again, chances are you're going to get the same looking image over and over again. You can use that to your advantage or you might have some problems with it later on. Until next video. Happy illustrating. 18. New Tool from ChatGPT: Canvas: Hey, everybody. Welcome back to the class. This is a bonus section for Chat GPT 40, and we'll be introducing a new tool called Canvas. And I hope this will help you with your writing much better than the actual free version of what is available to you in just the regular hat GPT, both in the four oh version and also the plus and 3.5 version. But now in four oh, we are able to use this new tool called Canvas, and I will be showing that to you in just a few seconds. So here is our typical page as far as what is available to us when we open up Chat GPT. This is, like I said, a free version, but it is the most recent latest version called 40. And so with this free version, you can see I already have a thread going on my left hand side over here, and you can see that this is actually a very, very long thread, but there are some personal things here that I want to keep personal, and so I'm not going to show you my entire thread, but it is about 50 or 60 articles and chats. And so what's great about the thread is it kind of keeps a memory of what you've already done. So if I were to just say, I'm not going to do it, but if I were to say, write a British mystery novel for me or write a British mystery summary. I wouldn't even have to tell you my title because it would go back to the thread and kind of pick up where it started in the past and just take that information and go through and give me my summary. So that's a really cool feature. I love the thread. I don't believe the free version of Grock does that, and I don't know of any of the other AIs that do that, which is a great feature. But the reason we're talking today is it's a little bit more advanced, and down here, you can see that there are some things you can do, you can attach files, which are other information that you can present to CHAT EPT to take a look at. You can search the web or you can view the tools. Now, the tools, I'm not going to talk about this one or this one, but we're going to talk about Canvas. And that's specifically for about writing and code, and we're going to use it for writing. So if I click on Canvas, all I have to do is just click on this, and you see the word now it's highlighted. And you know what, I'm colorblind, so I don't know if that's blue or purple, but just bear with me. But so now the tool is activated, and we won't see the tool fully shown to us until we type something. So if you want to just type, and I don't worry about prompts really anymore. I just go ahead and talk to it as if I'm talking to you right now. I kind of create a conversation with Chat ChiPT and I find that just more it's easier, first of all, for me, and I don't have to worry about prompting structure. I don't have to worry about what should I say the right way to say? I just talk to it as if I'm talking to my friends or writing partners. Down here at the bottom, it kind of gives you kind of a I wouldn't say they're prompts, but they're just basically starters. And you can sometimes it will say, you know, help me write or summarize this. But you can see here, if I say surprised me.