From Idea to Publication: A Guide to Writing Children's Books Using ChatGPT, MidJourney AI and Canva

[@thezinnystudio]

Thank you to all my new and returning subscribers💞. If you have any questions, kindly leave them below and be sure to like the video🙏.

[@888aminano]

I have used chatgpt for ten days bug recently doesnt let me to have access even if I click on sign in again with the address email I had to use to create account, so I changed it many times. No result So is chatgpg become not free?

[@thezinnystudio]

@@888aminano Mine works just fine and Chatgpt is still free. Kindly check on their website or do a search on google to see if there is an issue for your location.

[@888aminano]

@@thezinnystudio I am from Morocco, other users from do open it well. Thank you Zinny for you nice response. 👌

[@Pjwilliamson55]

WOW only person I have watched that explain midjourney the way you did and chatgpt, thank you so much.

[@thezinnystudio]

Thank you

[@khana_pkana]

@@thezinnystudio is midjourney ai free??

[@thezinnystudio]

@@khana_pkana it is free for first 25 images, however, to use the images for commercial purpose you have to use the paid plan.

[@khana_pkana]

@@thezinnystudio ok and what about bluewillow?? Can we use it for free.

[@thezinnystudio]

@@khana_pkana For now is free

[@JenaHuffman]

I absolutely love your channel. I have been binged watching your videos for the past couple of hours! Your tutorials and going through each step is informative and also inspiring. Thank you ❤😊

[@lunahd7200]

I think A.I art will make a real artist’s work’s worth even more than ever.

[@ZhangPG]

Hey there, I'm a traditional and digital artist. Can you elaborate more? I'm interested in your thoughts.

[@1special_p]

Thanks!

[@thezinnystudio]

Omg💃🏽, thank you so much.

[@immanuelandersen457]

I can’t even begin to tell you how awesome this video is!!🎉

[@thezinnystudio]

Glad you liked it!!

[@carey4490]

This was worth it's weight in gold. Thank you so much. ❤

[@DrDigitalIncome]

It weighs nothing

[@HustleandNFTS]

amazed and optimistic, She just told everyone how two make crazy easy money

[@fffw1826]

Here's the tutorial channel I've been looking for. Thank you for sharing this great video. Ma'am, could you share with us the tutorial on how to sell children's ebooks in Google Playbook? I mean it includes the ebook format we should upload in Google Playbook, how to upload the file on Playbook etc. Really appreciate it if you would like to make this tutorial.

[@____Sky____]

Hmm... I haven't watched the whole video yet, but it seems too cool! I hope it works. Have a great day! 🤩

[@amakamba8472]

Just curious how you published it on KDP, the paper quality and colour you selected, the page count issue, no one seems to be teaching that part yet 😢

[@BernhardRieder1]

I am not sure if I missed something here. But I believe, if you are going to download from Canvas like shown, your DPI resolution might not be high enough. And the printing might be too pixelated. When opening the Template in Photoshop, you can see they are using 600 dpi. That means a much larger pixel resolution than the images you downloaded from MJ and then uploaded directly to Canva. Unless, I really missed something substantial here. Thanks for your lovely video, appreciate it!

[@thatchipmunksings]

Use AI upscaler

[@deepaksingroha4145]

By mistake I came across ur channel I just want to say thank you so much for inspiring people like me,I just want to create comic but not able to get any direction and you gave hope thanks madam,please conduct doubt clearing session if possible.

[@mlbrewington4085]

This was a great video! I has so many children’s stories I e made for my daughter and never published because I found the illustration process so daunting. You’ve taken time to really explain this❤

[@thezinnystudio]

Thanks

[@blumbergnicole]

So excited to put this into play! I'm going to make something for my 2 year old and I know she will love it!

[@unyimeabasinelsonjames4057]

Thank you Zinny Studio, amazing video, excellent teaching, please do more of this, thank you.

[@thezinnystudio]

Thank you, I will

[@lornagregory9109]

Thank you so much for your detailed video, very clear and precise.

[@thezinnystudio]

You are welcome

[@kakeen1977]

how do you make the AI create the same looking character in each description? I described the scenes but, the faces were different in each new scene. I need it to be the same characters

[@gamerelated510]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/iInEqGpvqtKXrJI

[@lilianaruiz]

I have the same question

[@Gogies777]

I think you can do this by training a model, also try to get a variation (1 of 4 ) of original generation and it should get you similar or at least close to it. you can also use an image file and add a prompt after it to produce results related to the image that you included in the prompt.

[@22questions24]

How did you go back to choose the 2nd image do you just click a back button or something?

[@Aditzu21]

So how exactly do you get this images in a usable resolution? I can't find any link for the video where you explain upscaling.

[@eaglesquest7532]

Thank you for helping me to understand these new tools. I'm an illustrator but these tools can help with some ideas before I draw them.

[@thezinnystudio]

For sure. It can be a starting point, doesn't have to be the finished product.

[@RahshedaKB]

This was so helpful, I've watched a lot of KZbinrs and yours has been by far the best. Very detailed and to the point. THANK YOU 😊

[@thezinnystudio]

You are welcome

[@22questions24]

Hi Zinny, what are your previous videos on this topic, so I can go and have a look at them, I need to know what tool I can use to resize the ai images, and also some instructions. Thankyou you are a wonderful teacher.

[@thezinnystudio]

Check out my video on 9 AI Tools

[@MagnoWebDev]

Thanks!!! d+ the video, nowadays with the advancement of technology in AI helps a lot. Despite the fact that a lot of people think and are afraid that this will replace a professional. I already think it's different because we can use these tools to help us and help us to save time. I loved the tips and the video motivated me to create my own stories.

[@thezinnystudio]

You are welcome

[@marcus_ohreallyus]

I'm saying this as an artist myself... there's nothing wrong with using AI to write the text or make the pictures in a children's book. All that matters is the value that art and text brings to the person on the other end buying it. It doesn't matter if it was created by a human or a machine.

[@kjrrgun]

With credits to the products that did the work of course. As with any human collaborators, they (AI) should get due credit. This may save some of humanity down the line when Skynet decides we suck. Oh yeah I forgot, screw the real artists that are getting their work scraped, blended and shat out by a algorithm. It's fun to be an artist and make your own books!

[@desativadoofficial]

Those who create books or images using AI should not call themselves artists, an artist can do the same or better than AI, these AI artists are totally dependent of AI to be "artists"

[@lils1988]

So beautifuly said

[@angofomusoekellem7328]

Artist too do these art work and with the help of Ai now, they have become more efficient tho. If one does not have an artistic disposition, its difficult to put even colors, text types and sizes or even pictures together. When with Ai, there is still some reasonable human intervention to smoothen it and make it professional. All effort and even being courageous to learn and use tools is valid. Credit to all humans plus Ai creating value by any means❤🎉

[@marcus_ohreallyus]

@@desativadoofficial it doesn't matter if someone can call themselves an artist or not. They're still making art, because like I said... the end result is art and someone can connect with it emotionally without knowing if a machine or human created it. Not saying it's fair. It just is. So there's no use complaining about it or denigrating it now. The toothpaste is out of the tube.

[@betzademali5118]

thank you so much , i hvae QST how i can have my copyright after i make book like that ?

[@maumauohaz]

amazing content will try and create this for my kids

[@22questions24]

Did you copy and paste the 1st paragraph of the story, or the adjectives and verbs for the paragraph in the first image for the first page.

[@thezinnystudio]

the adjectives and verbs

[@warmnfts196]

This was very helpful thank you! I can now confidently go about writing and publishing my storybook!

[@Melissa_Lawrence]

Zinny, I'm so happy I came across your channel last week by accident! Keep up the amazing work and awesome tips, instructions etc. You have a permanent follower, viewer and friend in me! Loads of love from your Canadian viewer living in the UK 💗

[@thezinnystudio]

Thanks you so much and welcome to the community

[@NDirections]

Hi, I couldn't find the extension for google chrome u talk about in this video. Could u please, left the link here or do a tutorial on finding it and installing? Thanks for the great content.

[@thezinnystudio]

The extension is KDP Spy, but it works with a book bolt account

[@mrfritz103]

Great video, but one thing I don't understand is the page count. Does the minimum page count include the cover and back pages?

[@thezinnystudio]

Yes it does

[@anitahartzenberg1]

Hi Zinny, thanks for the very informative video you've shared🎉. Please tell me what software to use to check for correct size of my pictures for each page in storybook creation. Thanks😊

[@blackjackdoggy7413]

How did you get rid of the template verbiage? Thank you

[@danielerogazzo4540]

Hi, thank you for your video. Wich version did you use?

[@thezinnystudio]

At the time of the video i used version 4, but version 5.1 is way better now

[@jaafarshustle]

Thanks for the video. You're awesome! Please I would like to ask about the software you used to compressed your videos. I can see they are not heavy, just around 15 to 20 mbs

[@bayzeedalam7132]

how can you resize ur cover photo and put water mark and title. I can't do this.

[@creatingwhimsy7561]

What I don’t understand how to do when creating images using ai, I don’t know exactly how to prompt ai to create a sequence of images that are cohesive for all pages for the books. How do you do that?

[@iantawashington-allotey9913]

What is the plug in that you mentioned you had to do the research of the book? I did not hear you properly?

[@BitCamX]

There is a huge problem with a lack of consistency in MidJourney prompts. Everyone is making videos like it's so easy. I've been prompting for hours on MidJourney and am struggling lol. It's not so easy to be consistent, especially when you are trying to have multiple characters in one scene generated by midjourney.

[@thezinnystudio]

Is not easy. It also took me a while and multiple iterations to get the result in the video. You have to be little patience to get the result you want.

[@ahthisisgood]

There's a technique where you use an image as a reference point then add the prompts.

[@LightofJoshua]

@@ahthisisgoodhow do you use an image as a reference point

[@muhammediilim]

Teşekkür ederim, e kitap olarak yayınladığımız kitap satın alındığında basılı olarak mı gönderiliyor?

[@srikantdhondi]

How to generate consistent characters in stable diffusion?

[@zorandjuricic8505]

Hi! Why I do not geting a seed number, just a envelope letter in bottom of pic, and comentar, that I just succesfully rated that job!

[@messiikhan9187]

Just wonderful I got all answers to my questions regarding this topic but I want to ask how did you remove the writing from the kdp template in the inner book in canva. An answer would be much appreciated.

[@thezinnystudio]

You only need to remove the template and leave the writing

[@booksandmetv]

So beautiful even though I'm new in building ideas using ai so pls I need more guide if you can help tnks

[@spudspuddy]

you have to change your resolution to 300 dpi and change mode to cmyk in order to print correctly on KDP or anywhere else, or you won't get the true colours

[@JanEarly-bl3lh]

hi, Zinny,I don't know where to open the print cover calculator and template screen for kindle,thankyou

[@thezinnystudio]

kdp.amazon.com/cover-calculator

[@yaadstylehomeschooling]

Thank you for this video. It is very informative and illustrative.

[@ThanhPham-er5rt]

Which command you used to cut the paperback into half, I tried to drag the mouse like you but it just understand that I scale down picture 😭.

[@thekcumeh]

Wow, great detailed tutorial. I learnt a lot that I didn't know about Kdp from this. My question is this: Has Amazon Kdp started accepting Pdf formats? The lady time I checked they weren't taking pdf, they preferred doc or epub.

[@adamsfamilyvlog]

Omg 😱 so awesome 👏. I’m definitely going to try this and get my children story ideas out.

[@Artemez]

I think using ChatGPT and Midjourney/other image AI are great as a brainstorming tool and references, but shouldn't be anywhere near the final result - both for quality and copyright purposes. As an artist I was really excited by Midjourney at first because I thought it would be a much faster way of getting references that I needed. Instead of searching on google forever for that one pose at just the right angle, I could just generate it. Unfortunately, the image generating AI were not made for artists. Maybe the masters of the prompts have better luck, but I can't get it to generate anything very specific that is in any way accurate. The same goes for language models. They might generate you a story, but it isn't a good one. Then you also have the problem of the things you create not actually belonging to you by copyright law. The story and images you made with these AI can technically be used by anybody else, or might even belong to the creators of the AI. Midjourney even charges for you to use anything you generate commercially, which is a racket since they never paid the artists whose work they used to train their AI a cent.

[@MrMichaelsen]

many of the final results can be used in books or tshirts for sure as they r are better than many artists, lets face the truth

[@luisbernal7689]

Did you pay any artist that influenced you?

[@Artemez]

@Luis Bernal No, (although I have paid for art lessons - so sort of) and while that is a good point - as a human I am able to determine if my style looks too similar to another artist, especially if dealing with the same subject matter. With AI you can literally put an artist's name into the prompt to generate an image in their exact style - sometimes even with the AI attempting to recreate their signature. Copying an artist's style may not be illegal, but it's not ethical or professional. There have also been cases where the AI generates an image that is nearly identical to an image from its training dataset, which would actually be a copyright violation.

[@History_Mystery_Crime]

The world is changing so fast and dramatic and I wonder people will look into these ethical sides as you mentioned, rather than getting quick end results using AI😌

[@mariebagwell6314]

You definitely have to learn how to prompt the AI bots in order to get what you want.

[@yannispizza]

thank you very much for showing us how to do something really fun but looks professional

[@thezinnystudio]

You are so welcome!

[@yannispizza]

@@thezinnystudio I've watched alot of these videos and yours is the best one!

[@BENZ786]

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[@singhbrijesh]

Great tutorial; I am glad that I reached your video. Very detailed and concise explanation. Good work, keep it up. 👌👍👋

[@thezinnystudio]

Thanks

[@starsoul_7]

I'm currently on book 4, its my first children's book and I have been creating all the content myself. I just might look into this. Thank you

[@thezinnystudio]

You are welcome

[@bestsyllables]

thank you soo much, you re awesome, but i only find a problem with passing to the next step, when you copied the scene for the first page (min 16:55) i didn't get from where you got that link or scene, i will be grateful of you clarify

[@thezinnystudio]

So what i copied was the breakdown Chatgpt gave after i asked it to give me adjectives, verbs and the person for each page. so i copied page 1 breakdown and modified it abit for Midjourney. you can pause the video at that point to see what i wrote down. But that is what i did for each page one after the other of the right images. I hope this clarifies your question

[@bestsyllables]

the message i get : Invalid link Could not validate this link. Please try again later.

[@thezinnystudio]

@@bestsyllables Double check the link, make sure the link ends with '.png' also make sure their is a space before the next word

[@bestsyllables]

@@thezinnystudio thank you so much, i got it now. 😘😘

[@thezinnystudio]

@@bestsyllables You are welcome

[@GeorgesDelmotte]

Hey thank you so much. how did you do those paint brushes on the cover? looks amazing. :)

[@thezinnystudio]

It is painted on the prompt I used in Midjourney AI. The prompt is in the video you can try it out your self

[@Laikina_Art]

Thank you for the video. I noticed that you don't add blank pages at the beginning and end of the book that should be used as flyleaf. What will the book look like when printed in paperback and hardcover?

[@spudspuddy]

kdp add a blank page, they dont print the book on the cover, covers are uploaded as a separate pdf

[@kaka1738]

Hello! thank you for your super helpful video. Is there an ideal size for the children's book? how did you decide for 8.5x8.5 inches? Also do we have to follow the minimum page count of 24 pages?

[@thezinnystudio]

During your research phase you would notice the popular sizes of all other children's story book you can use that, that is how i came up wit the dimension i used. The book pages have to be minimum of 24 pages based on amazon guideline. Also check other book and it will tell you number of pages they have.

[@kaka1738]

@@thezinnystudio thank you for your advice!

[@blackjackdoggy7413]

I also just subscribed!!❤

[@thezinnystudio]

Yay! Thank you!

[@zahra4547]

Thank you for this amazing and informative video. ❤️

[@joansenna]

Can we use MIDJOURNEY images four businesses, or will jt be copy wright

[@gamethu7488]

Does Amazon check the copyright?

[@steelloopy]

REAAAAALLY inspiring thank you so much for this video!

[@Tateligames]

Thank you for this. very inspiring.

[@thezinnystudio]

You are welcome

[@tundedamian]

Thank you for this beautiful and educative video, I really love your font style for the title of the book, do you have any video on canva tutorials pls?

[@ikennanobleohazulike2188]

Amazing content as always .making daddy time with the kids more fun

[@thezinnystudio]

😀

[@zcush]

I’ve been writing my first book and I just like Rouen out about this option for the illustration instead of ace this myself but I just can’t get the imagine how I want it; it's frustrating

[@LadiesFS2024]

LOVE IT

[@thezinnystudio]

Thanks

[@samrat-noobangry7069]

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[@patriciaweaver7735]

I think ai is wonderful because I write children's books but couldn't afford an illustrator to draw the pictures. So I am thrilled to finally be able to publish my books

[@thezinnystudio]

Well done

[@tcgplayaa]

The part where you click on the emoji and then click on the mail icon I am confused on? I dont see the icons anywhere to do either of those actions. Am I missing something? Please help lol :)

[@thezinnystudio]

Are you referring to Midjourney or in what app I used in the tutorial

[@OliviasWorldOfTech]

Hello! Thanks for the great content. I was wondering, what is the extension you are using on chrome to do the niche research?

[@thezinnystudio]

Book Bolt

[@thepurestshow8325]

@@thezinnystudio how do I add this extension please

[@thezinnystudio]

@@thepurestshow8325 You need to have a book bolt account and then you download the extension from chrome web store.

[@gloriahahn2606]

This wonderful thank you kindly!

[@Chloe_777]

Thank you for sharing

[@alhakawaty]

Well done Zinny! Thanmk you.

[@thezinnystudio]

You are welcome

[@vaishnavi4599]

Hello Zinny, I did not understand how to download the template from kdp website.Could you please help me?

[@thezinnystudio]

Visit this site 'kdp.amazon.com/cover-calculator" Once you are done selecting the option you want. you will see a download button, go ahead and click that a zip folder will be downloaded to your computer and you extract and use the template.

[@fayneart]

Great work! 👏

[@thezinnystudio]

Thank you so much 😀

[@crunch4620]

Hi could you pls show me how to do illustrations for my book. I have written my own stories I just need illustrations. Thankyou so much.

[@djsannan6907]

Hello,can u tell me what is the extension exacly from chrome ?

[@thezinnystudio]

KDP Spy

[@djsannan6907]

@@thezinnystudio thank you,I installed it but I don't know why it doesn't work for me

[@thezinnystudio]

@@djsannan6907 You need to have a book bolt account before the chrome extension would work. for the book bolt account has 3 days free trail, there after you need to pay.

[@djsannan6907]

@@thezinnystudio i have book bolt account

[@atikakim2379]

Wow this is amazing ! Thank you so much

[@thezinnystudio]

You are welcome

[@maxinewairimu6478]

I didn't even think this was possible, thank you for sharing. I wonder, can I use BlueWillow in this process instead of Midjourney?

[@thezinnystudio]

you can use BlueWillow. However, i am not sure if you can use images from BlueWillow for commercial purposes yet, you need to double check their terms of service.

[@agregueagregados8983]

Good evening, a query, what is the name of the extension, is it free?

[@animalloversfacts]

Thank you so much for this excellent and informative video.... You helped me so much.

[@piotrek2x]

i understand that pictures and text is to be used in commercial publication only generate from paid version (ChatGPT and midjourney) or from free versions?

[@thezinnystudio]

For ChatGPT paid or free it doesnt matter. For Midjourney it has to be paid version.

[@Blausamurai]

it doesn't work in v5, you can't get the seed nr for one single picture anymore

[@nunopereira526]

Hello and thanks for the video, i don't understand the template or image with the measures, do you remove it before finishing or do you keep it? Why is it so important? Thanks

[@thezinnystudio]

The template, serves as a guide to help you avoid areas you shouldnt have images or words, otherwise amazon with reject it. You keep the template and design over it, once you are done, then delete the template leaving you with only your images and words in the right place.

[@nunopereira526]

@@thezinnystudio Thanks for the quick answer, that's what i was guessing but was not sure. Have a great day :)

[@trinitymckenziesvalues5321]

Thank you for the great information. I learnt a lot. The best video so far. Please what is the name of the site for cheming for Grammar error and plagiarism. Also what is the name of the app that help you to paraphrase on where plagiarism is found.

[@thezinnystudio]

Paraphrase: Quillbot , Plagiarism: Grammarly

[@serenityshorts]

zinny how do you get those amazing midjourney prompts ?

[@thezinnystudio]

there are multiple ways, I start my describing what I want to see and modify until I get the result I want. I also use chat gpt4, asking to act as a diffusion model and generate descriptive words depending on what i am working on. You can also go through the discord community and look for similar images you want to create, review their prompts and then make modifications.

[@salvinbarla3361]

Great video ,I have learnt a lot

[@thezinnystudio]

Glad to hear it!

[@obiorangozi-i3x]

amazing content

[@thelarryrutledge]

This was a very good tutorial. But I have one question. You created a book with only 6 pages, where are you publishing it? My understanding is Amazon KDP requires a minimum of 24 pages. Thank you

[@thezinnystudio]

You are correct Amazon KPD requires a minimum of 24 pages. I used only 6 pages as an example for the tutorial.

[@thelarryrutledge]

@@thezinnystudio Oh that makes sense. Thank you for the clarification

[@lilianaruiz]

@@thezinnystudio Great video, I wonder how can you get the same character across the story? For example, create the same character for different scenarios?

[@thezinnystudio]

@@lilianaruiz I showed that in the video, is about maintaining the main prompts that generated the image you want and make slight modifications for the scene. Note this takes time to get very close characters.

[@Momosdailykitchen]

Hi, great job. I have a question, when I click on the 4 suggested images, I can't select or download an image. is this only possible with the paid version? if so what would this cost?

[@thezinnystudio]

The is no download button, you have to first upscale the particular one you want then right click and chose save as to save the image.

[@footzya]

I have a question how you did the title like that in canva?

[@nhacthoca]

Cool!!!

[@GedKeenan]

Hello excellent vid, did you publish this one how is it selling

[@mwa5704]

Looked for this book and it wasn't on amazon

[@alalar900]

Paying an artist that learned during a large study journey and have the skills to do it is a good option, no?

[@utkar1]

thanks for this, do you have a paid subscription to midjourney?