How To Self Publish A Picture Book ~ KDP Tutorial, Templates, Copyright Page, ISBN Number & More!

Hi everyone, this video is a KDP tutorial on how to self publish a picture book. It's all the technical info like formatting the book, creating templates, what the bleed and safe zones are. Do you need to buy your own ISBN number? What extra pages do you need in your book, like Copyright page, Endpapers, Title page. I hope you find this helpful.
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[@EmmaCarpenterIllustration]

I'm soooo pleased so many of you are finding this video helpful! 🥳📚 You can buy my book here amzn.to/3g6SZ1x 🌊🦀 I'd LOVE it if you could give it a review it really helps. Thank you!! 🥰🥰

[@2solid4tv48]

U got Insta ? Do u do art for others ?

[@EmmaCarpenterIllustration]

@@2solid4tv48 Yes my Instagram is @emmacarpenterillo ☺️ I do take on commissions, email is the best for business inquiries [e-mail]

[@smilingsunrise6814]

first time im here, I love it thank you for sharing.

[@EmmaCarpenterIllustration]

@@smilingsunrise6814 you're welcome 😊

[@nancyjordan5111]

thanks so much, beautiful book!! going to buy it now!

[@chyldstudios]

I'm writing a children's book for my daughter. This video helped a lot. Thanks!

[@EmmaCarpenterIllustration]

Oh how lovely 😊📚I'm sure your daughter will love it!

[@BollaPrinting]

Do you need printing books?

[@allenalsop6032]

By the way, as a teacher myself, I must say you did a very good job with your presentation. Well taught.

[@denislanglais9434]

You offer one of the best, if not the very best description of the process of going from the artwork to the upload to KDP. Thank you very much!

[@sarataher6955]

I loved every minute of this! Your illustrations are BEAUTIFUL! I’d love to work with you on one of my upcoming books! And your video has so many helpful tips, I’m about to publish my first picture book on KDP! Thank you so much for the lovely content!

[@EmmaCarpenterIllustration]

Aww thank you Sara!! 🥰📚So glad it was helpful. I'd love to hear more about your upcoming books. You can email me at [e-mail]

[@mariagragson9164]

This is wonderful! Thank you so much for being so generous with your information! I am a teacher and I know my students would love your book!

[@EmmaCarpenterIllustration]

You are so welcome Maria! 😄 Aw thank you

[@Artful-Advisor]

Thank you so much! I was looking for a publishing company, because I wanted to publish my book with images, because I did not know how to make a picture book on Amazon. You solved my problem, thank you! I appreciate it! PS. You have a very beautiful book! I love the choice of colors and ideas and drawing! Amazing book!

[@mercedesthebishopswife1248]

I so appreciate this, thank you Emma. I have had no end of problems trying to get the sizing right for kdp publishing. Your illustrations are so vibrant. Quite beautiful. That alone creates interest....and I am an adult😊

[@EmmaCarpenterIllustration]

Thank you Mercedes 😄glad I'm not the only adult who loves picture books! 📚

[@AsilemART]

This was wonderful. Thank you for taking so much time to explain this. Love your art style as well!

[@EmmaCarpenterIllustration]

You are so welcome! 😄 Glad you enjoyed it

[@daniellemolenaar]

Hi Emma! Thanks for your detailed instructions! I purchased your book, and it is lovely.

[@EmmaCarpenterIllustration]

Thanks Danielle 🥰 have a lovely day!

[@RegnaSaturna]

Thank you for a great tutorial. As a sidenote: when setting up your document in photoshop, don't forget to choose pixels/inch instead of cm like you mistakenly did if you want 600 dpi. It otherwise will be extremely heavy.

[@sadepennbrook]

Huh?! What do units of measurements have to do with choosing the resolution…or weight??

[@ezmepetersen2503]

How helpful was this? I am so glad I landed on your video. You covered everything so well and even though there is a lot to get through you made it very interesting. Thank you and I wish you every success with your future projects.

[@EmmaCarpenterIllustration]

Thank you Ezme 🥰 so glad you found it helpful and enjoyable. Good luck to you too!

[@user-vf2zt9we6h]

Absolutely the most help I've found out of a dozen or more I've watched! Thank you! Your illustrations are terrific!

[@EmmaCarpenterIllustration]

Thanks so much Joyce! 😊 glad you found it helpful, good luck with your book!

[@TheRBTDESIGNER]

This video has helped me self-publish my own art books. Thank you, Emma.

[@rishitashahpatel6287]

Woww this video is gold. I am in the process of making a childrens book and this is all what i needed to know about Amazon KDP

[@denisecountessmetlissmetli1856]

At last, children's picture book publishing explained so one can understand, thank you so, so much. Brilliant presentation.

[@user-pl9ye6nc9j]

I enjoyed just looking at your incredible book! Wow! That is sure to capture a child's imagination. Great work! I love the Ocean King.

[@EmmaCarpenterIllustration]

Thank you so much Andrew! 👑🌊Glad you liked the Ocean King too.

[@robertwesterfield3454]

Thank you for the video. I’ve been watching a lot and yours had some additional information that is useful.

[@tarahall1025]

So thankful!!!! My book is ready- I'm just now creating my template to finish up the pages- it's a full 28 painting children's book.

[@EmmaCarpenterIllustration]

Thanks for watching 🥰📚 Good luck with your book

[@BollaPrinting]

Do you want to printing books?

[@cassullivan1375]

This is such a good video!! I use Clip Studio Paint so I'm not sure how well I can follow along, but this is very helpful and I understand a little better ! Thank you

[@marynjoroge8357]

Definitely the most generously helpful video out there ❤️

[@EmmaCarpenterIllustration]

Aww 🥰thank you Mary! I'm so glad you found it helpful!

[@lucasforde1095]

Thanks Emma, you're a star for making this video!

[@ultraviolet734]

Excellent tutorial and the book looks wonderful ! 🎨💖✨️

[@romicajones]

Hi Emma, fellow UK based illustrator and KZbinr here. That was brilliant, I've been thinking of getting one of my books on Amazon but wasn't sure how the uploading process plus ISBNs and barcodes etc would all work. Thank you for doing all the work and sharing it with us. The book turned out beautifully and I loved the bloopers at the end. It is so easy to see polished videos and think, man am I the only one who has to record a thing several times XD definitely going to subscribe, and hello from Manchester ❤

[@EmmaCarpenterIllustration]

Hi Romica ☺👋aw thank you, so glad you enjoyed the video and the bloopers too! I always have plenty of material for bloopers 😆What are your books about? Hello from Wales (as of 2 weeks ago)

[@romicajones]

@@EmmaCarpenterIllustration So glad the move went well and Wales, how beautiful. I have only been to North Wales but the shots you showed in your newest video look so beautiful. I would love to see a seal one day. There are 3 different ones in dummy stage or early development - one is called “How Maud met Anne” on how Lucy Maud Montgomery got her book Anne of Green Gables published, the other one is called “Bim and the Brass Band on Silent Island” about the power of music and overcoming old conventions, and then one more about a little mouse that has wings but cannot fly due to all the things he cannot let go of called “Archimedes learns to fly” :)

[@EmmaCarpenterIllustration]

@@romicajones Glad you enjoyed the Wales vlog ☺ Oh wow three books on the go! They all sound really interesting, the one about the mouse with wings sounds very sweet 🥰

[@ayuko0521]

Hello Emma. Thank you so much for your video. It's really really helpful. I love your artworks and the way you do your work. I l love having coffee and treat while I do my work:) I'm new to work with picture book but I'll try. Your video helped me a lot. Thank you so much again.

[@EmmaCarpenterIllustration]

You’re welcome Ayuko ☺️ I’m so glad you found it helpful. Good luck with your book 📚 ☕️

[@a.nu.beginning]

I love your vibes and your book looks absolutely adorable! Thank you for the video!

[@EmmaCarpenterIllustration]

Aw thank you 🥰📚 I'm actually working on a new book now, I'll be sharing lots of updates on my channel 👻

[@metalkingtohorses]

your book is awesome and I appreciate all the work you put in because I'm trying to publish my high content horse journal , its a lot of work and I'm just learning the computer stuff, I'm an illustrator but have no idea how to scan in high quality pictures of my work. so its a long journey for me.

[@EmmaCarpenterIllustration]

Thank you for your kind comment 😊When you're scanning your artwork change the resolution to at least 300 dpi (I scan at 600dpi) DPI stands for dots per inch, so the higher the number the better the resolution. There's lots of videos on KZbin on the topic of digitising your artwork. @harmonyhardinillustration made a video here kzbin.info/www/bejne/d6fRqZeppLOUhrc

[@lavalford8654]

Thank you so much! This is exactly what I have been looking for 😁. Subscribed.

[@Tajhad]

Very helpful. Thanks for sharing and good luck with publishing more books in the future

[@alansmith2086]

Finally, I found this tutorial. Thanks for all your hard work.

[@EmmaCarpenterIllustration]

Thanks Alan 😄so pleased you enjoyed it, glad to help!

[@rebecacruz7080]

Emma, you're so incredible! Thank you for sharing everything with us because it was sooo helpful to me bc i'm doing a picture book for my masters degree this year. THANK YOOOOU EMMMAAAA

[@EmmaCarpenterIllustration]

Oh how exciting! Good luck with your masters!! 😊🍁

[@thebutterflycollector9510]

Thankyou Emma . Your book is so beautiful!!! 🌸💮💜🌟

[@EmmaCarpenterIllustration]

Glad you enjoyed it and thank you! 😊📚

[@MagsArt]

Thank you Emma ❤️ Really helpful and generous

[@EmmaCarpenterIllustration]

😊Thank you, glad you liked it!

[@Charlottewildbeauty]

Thank you so much for this, brilliant video! Really helpful and easy to follow, and the book looks beautiful, Ill get it for my Forest School!

[@EmmaCarpenterIllustration]

Thank you Charlotte 🥰📚 I hope the kids in your class enjoy it

[@bijansharifi5869]

thank you. It's the best tutorial for self publishing🤩 and of course your book looks amazing.

[@EmmaCarpenterIllustration]

Aww thank you so much Bijan I’m so glad you found it helpful! 😁📚

[@Nnnuu888]

Thank you very much for your in-depth process explanation of publishing your own books. I would love to invest in some your books I really appreciate the details you included within this video, i had many questions which you have answered, really great stuff. Thanks Emma

[@2009MrsJones]

So helpful, thank you!

[@staceycreates]

Really helpful to see the quality of the output here - thanks for the great tutorial!

[@EmmaCarpenterIllustration]

You're welcome Stacey! 🥰 Thanks for watching! 📚

[@ashrodders]

instantly subbed thank you also your really smart and easy to listen to good job!

[@TravelClast]

so good so helpful and the book is absolutely beautiful (as you are;) brava and thank you!

[@chrismarrison6948]

Excellent tutorial. I've saved this to help me with publishing my first book 😊

[@illustrationbylou]

What a wonderful video and a beautifully illustrated book! 😄

[@EmmaCarpenterIllustration]

Aww thank you Lou 🥰

[@InaNutshellCrafts]

Super helpful! Thank you!

[@eleizesilvaferreira6471]

I just love your illustration. ❤. You gave so much 😊

[@EmmaCarpenterIllustration]

Thank you so much 😀

[@sarahfitzgerald9797]

This video was soooo helpful!! Your book looks amazing 🤗

[@EmmaCarpenterIllustration]

Thanks Sarah! 🥰Glad it was helpful!

[@j.q.z.]

Extremely thanks for sharing.

[@chloejensen5689]

This was so incredibly helpful! Thank you for this ❤️ I love you book and will be purchasing a copy for myself ❤️❤️

[@EmmaCarpenterIllustration]

Thank you Chloe 🥰so glad you found it helpful. I hope you enjoy your book!📚After you've read it could you leave me a review on Amazon? That would make my day! 💕

[@chloejensen5689]

@@EmmaCarpenterIllustration yes I would be happy to leave a review 🥰

[@EmmaCarpenterIllustration]

@@chloejensen5689 yay 🥰 thank you!!!

[@AussieFiggy]

Helpful video, thanks for the tips in set-ups. From my understanding you don’t need to buy a barcode, though, you can generate a barcode through any number of free generators. It’s just about making the series of numbers machine-readable.

[@irmahersel409]

This was the most helpful video I found ! I appreciate it ❤

[@EmmaCarpenterIllustration]

Glad it was helpful! 😊

[@shaneaudette6763]

Thank you very much. Great chronological order of steps.

[@EmmaCarpenterIllustration]

You’re welcome Shane ☺️ glad you found it helpful

[@chanchalm1234]

Getting all the details, it's very helpful, many thanks 👍👍👍

[@EmmaCarpenterIllustration]

Glad you found it useful! 😁

[@janeenmccoy4610]

This was a beautiful video...i hope you can do more where you can share how you do illustrations

[@EmmaCarpenterIllustration]

Thanks Janeen 😊 glad you enjoyed it. I have soooo many videos on my channel where I share my illustrations and my thought process. I made a special video about the whole process of illustrating this book here kzbin.info/www/bejne/sKXQpHl_gdaHhac

[@17lemarie]

I love your video, thank you very much for the wonderful tutorial! 😊

[@EmmaCarpenterIllustration]

You are so welcome! 😊📚

[@Stressbreaker999]

Beautiful illustrations. Really helpful video. I use clunky Canva with its limitations, Procreate too but there’s a page limit, but I’d never heard of Adobe Bridge.

[@EmmaCarpenterIllustration]

Thanks Ian ☺️ glad you enjoyed it. Good luck with your book 📚

[@mollye8141]

Wonderful... thank you! Book looks great!

[@EmmaCarpenterIllustration]

Thank you Mollye 🥰 glad you enjoyed the video

[@pragativasisht4432]

Wow this is so inspiring and intimidating at the same time...

[@EmmaCarpenterIllustration]

Thank you for the compliment! I hope you're not feeling too intimidated. Illustrating this book did take me a long time. I made a separate video about the journey if you wanted to watch that. There were ups and downs. 😊kzbin.info/www/bejne/sKXQpHl_gdaHhacsi=9kZd-AsTTpccpdwj

[@pragativasisht4432]

@@EmmaCarpenterIllustration Thanks Emma. You have the most beautiful illustrations. I hope I can do something similar one day!

[@kanishkaverma2949]

This is eveything. I got almost every information. Thank you!

[@EmmaCarpenterIllustration]

Glad it was helpful!

[@c4hillgrx449]

Thank you so much for a great tutorial, This was so helpful! 😊

[@EmmaCarpenterIllustration]

You are so welcome! 😄

[@LeilaLondonVintage]

Decided to go KDP route, this video helped fill the gaps, I couldn't find answers anywhere! Thank you so much Emma... Mine will be out soon too, I hope! Best‌, Leila Hart xx PS Suffice to say‌, found your beautiful book on Amazon and can't wait to receive it!

[@EmmaCarpenterIllustration]

Thank you for buying my book Leila 🥰📚 I'm so glad this video helped you too!

[@hunnybunnyssunshineliving5155]

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🙌🏽👍🏼 Thank you, very helpful... ending adorable 😄💜

[@edenswings44]

This was amazing and thank you for the tutoring and inspiration.

[@EmmaCarpenterIllustration]

Glad it was helpful!

[@florianaamaterasu5509]

Great tutorial Emma thank you!

[@EmmaCarpenterIllustration]

Glad it was helpful! ☺️

[@Jesterharp]

Thanks for the video. I also need to know how to put a picture book into a fixed ebook format.

[@ingridbrooks7422]

Thank you for the useful information ❤

[@TheRainFP]

Thank you so much for this awesome video guide!

[@EmmaCarpenterIllustration]

You're so welcome! 😄

[@ambitionchimp]

hi emma loved the video i was wondering what the bridge program was and where i could download it , thanks so much for the helpful content

[@user-sq1ir6yp5k]

Awesome explanation, thank you!

[@EmmaCarpenterIllustration]

You're very welcome!

[@androulaembedokleous273]

Thank you dear friend for sharing your experience so generously.

[@EmmaCarpenterIllustration]

You're welcome 😊📚 thanks for watching!

[@wallacebankley3384]

Thanks so.much Emma, delighted to discover your channel, this video has been answered.the fear I have with thefts on the amount of channels teach you how, even books A.I is eating them ,and e books and on utube channel teach how to copy and paste, get them for free., now I have been researching for my books to be safe from stealing, God bless you for your expertise knowledge so.much more

[@EmmaCarpenterIllustration]

Glad it was helpful! Good luck with your book! 📚

[@ElaineInaHindin]

Thank you very much. This video is very helpful!!! Best wishes for great sales! Elaine

[@EmmaCarpenterIllustration]

Thanks Elaine 🥰 so glad you found it helpful 🌷

[@Fin_Win]

Beautiful book and useful video ❤

[@EmmaCarpenterIllustration]

Thank you 🤗

[@shoushoumcdaniels9116]

Thank you for your information! Blessings to you!

[@EmmaCarpenterIllustration]

You're so welcome 😊📚

[@astrabula329]

BEAUTIFUL BOOK!

[@EmmaCarpenterIllustration]

🥰thank you so much! 📚

[@soniafinch7922]

Hi Emma, how funny, this is on my to do list for this year.

[@EmmaCarpenterIllustration]

That's awesome Sonia! 😄Good luck with your book!

[@olliemarks663]

Thank you, Emma. This was the most helpful tutorial I have found so far. A question ... all the 'trim size' measurements appear to be for books in Portrait mode. My pictures/layout are all for a Landscape mode book. Can I/how do I switch from one to the other? Ollie M

[@avi82625]

Congratulations on your beautiful book!

[@EmmaCarpenterIllustration]

Aww thank you 🥰📚

[@fayroozabdalla980]

That was very very helpful thank you🙏🏽

[@EmmaCarpenterIllustration]

You’re welcome ☺️💕

[@sidj9952]

beautiful video thanks a ton. Hope i can start my self publishing soon ;)

[@EmmaCarpenterIllustration]

Thanks for watching 😊📚Best of luck!

[@stevejameson77]

I want to tell you i enjoyed your help very much!!!! The only things I need to research outside your lesson are if i can print my art book 8.5"x11" in horizontal format since my paintings are mostly landscape format.. And how do i load all my content pages into one single pdf file. but i can research that. thanks so much for your help!!!! best wishes!!!

[@Kryssthealien]

Thank you VERY much, real clear!

[@EmmaCarpenterIllustration]

You’re welcome 😁 glad it was useful!

[@AS-ks6kn]

What a beautiful book! Congratulations🎉 and thank you for sharing such an informative process! I was wondering what was your scanning or photographing process? Any tips? I am creating a childrens book with watercolor illustrations and that is my next step!

[@EmmaCarpenterIllustration]

Thank you so much 😄 I scanned everything in at 600dpi (300dpi is the standard). Then I edit in Photoshop, brighten, contrast, up the saturation a bit. I would recommend watching Kendyll Hillegas, she has a great video on scanning & editing traditional art here kzbin.info/www/bejne/any7apRnnrKondU Good luck with your book! 📚

[@jasminnavi]

Thank you so much for this video!

[@EmmaCarpenterIllustration]

You're welcome! 😊😊

[@lauramunoz3146]

Thanks! It was very helpful.

[@EmmaCarpenterIllustration]

You're welcome Laura 😁 thanks for watching!

[@Bratzismylife]

Your art is beautiful

[@EmmaCarpenterIllustration]

Thank you so much! 🥰

[@popescumuguraurelian956]

Great tutorial, thank you so much!

[@EmmaCarpenterIllustration]

You're welcome ☺☺ thanks for watching!

[@owencartagena]

Thank you for your video. Awesome information, and it helped me a lot.

[@EmmaCarpenterIllustration]

You're welcome Owen 😊 glad it helped! Good luck with your book!

[@owencartagena]

@@EmmaCarpenterIllustration Thank You 😊

[@SongsbyCharleneApril]

What a beautiful book you created! Thank you for the tutorial. Curious if it did well (as far as sales). Would love to know. Thank you!

[@expressionmedia6635]

well done and very helpful.

[@galagargano]

This tutorial was so helpful, and the artwork is really beautiful!🤍

[@EmmaCarpenterIllustration]

Thank you so much 😀

[@HBSHOMESTORE]

Thank you for all details👍

[@EmmaCarpenterIllustration]

No problem 👍

[@glorysamjolly]

Really helpful! Especially because I use CS6 photoshop!

[@EmmaCarpenterIllustration]

Glad it helped! 😄

[@Miya-ub5qn]

I am from Japan. Thank you very much for step by step instructions with necessary details. Brilliant job! One question I have is do you need 600 dpi? Isn't 300 dpi enough even for a printed paperback?

[@EmmaCarpenterIllustration]

Hi Miya, glad you enjoyed the video ☺ 300dpi is probably enough, I always like to go larger if I can for future use, for example if I wanted to make large art prints.

[@h.a.s.7336]

Wonderful video and beautiful illustrations! i just wanted to let you and your viewers know that I've heard there are free barcode generators out there, instead of buying them with the ISBNs.

[@TheLoneAnimator]

I clicked on the subscribe button simply because I want to see more of your amazing art :)

[@EmmaCarpenterIllustration]

Aww thank you very much 🥰 I actually have a new video coming out later today. Hope you enjoy it!

[@TheLoneAnimator]

@@EmmaCarpenterIllustration I'm sure I will! 😊

[@sergioguillenberrocal9751]

Lovely :) thank you!

[@usernotavailablewg]

Your book looks great!

[@EmmaCarpenterIllustration]

Thank you Canwei 🥰🌊

[@YokiB]

I enjoyed your training!

[@EmmaCarpenterIllustration]

Thanks for watching ☺☺

[@deborahminter6231]

Beautiful book!💖💕

[@EmmaCarpenterIllustration]

Thank you! 🤗

[@toritassone4069]

Thank you! I love your illustrations! Is there a service that will do all of this for me? I’m not tech savvy but love writing for children.

[@majazdelar7633]

Thanks for the video. It is very useful :)

[@EmmaCarpenterIllustration]

Glad it was helpful! 😄