Amazing 1.3 Million FREE Images for KDP Book Cover Designs

Part 1 - How to Make a KDP Vintage Cover: • Make a Vintage KDP Boo...
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Great book covers are one of the secrets to selling self published books on the Amazon KDP platform. This applies to fiction, non-fiction, no content and low content books. In this video I show you a resource of over 1.3 million images that are in the public domain, most of which can be used to created book covers to be sold commercially. More importantly I show you how to take these images, convert them into vector images, modify them and then use them to creating a stunning book cover to catch customers attention, get that all important click and hopefully convert into a sale. These vintage style covers can be used to create an online brand and build a valuable business to make money online using your computer or laptop from home.
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00:00 Introduction
01:56 Free Public Domain Images
03:33 Google Reverse Image Search
07:27 Vectorizing Images
08:33 Editing a Vector Image
08:54 Cleaning a Vector Image
09:58 Creating a Vector Image
10:32 Image Trace Software
10:58 Vectorizer.io
12:46 KDP Cover Design
14:18 KDP Travel Journal
On this channel I have many free videos on how to create and publish KDP Amazon books and build an online passive income using your computer from home to create a second or full online income. Check out the New to KDP Publishing playlist here: bit.ly/3i3f78K
DISCLAIMER: This video and description contain affiliate links, which means that if you click on one of the product links, I’ll receive a small commission. This helps support the channel and allows us to continue to make videos. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Thank you for your support! The examples in this video are for illustration purposes only. It is your responsibility to check the terms and conditions and license agreement of any software or graphical element you use or download from third party vendors.
EARNINGS DISCLAIMER: This video is for educational purposes only. There is no guarantee that you will earn money using the techniques and ideas in this video. This is not financial advice or investment advice. While it is possible to minimize risk, your investments are solely your responsibility. It is imperative that you conduct your own research. I am merely sharing my opinion with no guarantee of gains or losses on investments. Your level of success in attaining the results claimed in this video will require commitment, hard-work, experience and knowledge. We have taken reasonable steps to ensure that the information in this video is accurate but we cannot represent that the website(s) mentioned in this video are free from errors. You expressly agree not to rely upon any information contained in this video.
About this video - In this video I show you how to use FREE public domain images to create KDP book covers that sell on Amazon KDP.
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Love these two covers - these are definitely books I'd buy myself! Thanks for all the great info you're sharing!

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Thank you. I like these sorts of designs too.

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One of the most useful videos I've ever seen on YT! I could never figure out how to clean up the background of a vintage image, or extract single images. So this is beyond helpful, thank you 😊

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As usual, an excellent video! I was already using a few images from Biodiversity but it never occurred to me to make a pattern out of it - brilliant idea! I see why the smaller, more individual "pieces" work better than some of the pages that have multiple pieces like the parrots. I had a heck of a time "cleaning" those up and it was never quite good enough to use, so I ditched them. But the beetles and butterflies and the like work really well. You opened up a whole new set of ideas for me. 😊 Thank you so much for sharing! 💖👍

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Thank you.

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I'm glad you've been inspired and discovered how creative you are. That's great to hear.

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Thank you! I will when the weather gets warmer! 🙂

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You’re welcome. Best of luck.