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Import your own pages

Made your coloring pages somewhere else? Bring them into ColorCraft to arrange them, add text and a cover, and export print files for KDP. Each picture, or each page of a PDF, becomes one page of the book. Importing is free: it uses none of your pages.

What you can import

Pictures (JPEG, PNG, WebP or HEIC) or an interior PDF, into coloring books. Storybooks, comic books and puzzle books don’t take imported pages.

Add pages to a book you have

  1. 1

    Click Import on the page strip

    Open the coloring book in the editor. In the strip along the bottom, click the dashed Import tile (beside Add). Import your pages opens.

  2. 2

    Choose your files

    Drag files onto Drop your pages here, or click Choose files. Each file is listed by name; click its × to take it off the list. A file that can’t be imported says why in red (not a picture or PDF, or too big) and is left out.

  3. 3

    Confirm the pictures are yours

    Tick “These pictures are mine, or I have permission to use them in a book I publish.”

  4. 4

    Click Import

    The button counts your files (Import 3 files). Each file shows its progress — Uploading…, then Adding page N of M… for a PDF — and then how many pages it added. The new pages go after the book’s last page, in the order you chose the files.

The Import your pages dialog over the editor: the line saying each picture or PDF page is added after the book's last page and that importing is free, the dashed Drop your pages here box with Choose files, the permission checkbox and the Import files button, with no files chosen yet.
Import your pages, opened from the page strip.

Start a new book from your pages

  1. 1

    Choose Import your pages

    In the left menu, click Create, then Puzzle Books. That opens Paige’s first screen, What would you like to create?: click the Import your pages card, then Next. Or go straight to Import your pages.

  2. 2

    Name the book

    Type the Book title. The files can’t be imported until the book has a title.

  3. 3

    Add your files and import

    Choose or drop your files, tick the permission box and click Import, as above. The book is made when the import starts.

  4. 4

    Open your book

    When the pages are in, click Open your book. It’s a coloring book at 8.5 × 11 in, and it’s on Home with your other books.

The Import your pages screen for a new book: the heading Bring the pages you already made, the Book title box, the Drop your pages here box with Choose files, the permission checkbox and the line Give your book a title to start.
A new book from your own pages: a title, then your files.

The page size is set when the book is made

A book started from an import is always 8.5 × 11 in, and a book’s page size can’t be changed later. For another size, make the book first with Create → New Book in the left menu, then import into it from the page strip.

Limits

Files in one import60
One pictureup to 25 MB
One PDFup to 50 MB and 200 pages
Pictures imported in 24 hours400
Pages with pictures in one book100

What happens to imported pages

  • Each picture gets a page of its own, sized to fit the page without stretching. Move it, resize it, add text, graphics, shapes and a border, as on any page.
  • A PDF page comes in as a picture of that page, so words already on it can’t be edited. Blank PDF pages are skipped.
  • There’s no Regenerate on an imported page: there’s no prompt to redraw it from, and redrawing would throw your art away. Replace still opens Picture if you want an AI-drawn picture on that page instead (that uses pages as usual; see Replacing a page’s picture).
  • Imported pages export with the rest of the book — see Export your interior PDF.

For sharp pages, import the biggest file you have

If a picture has fewer than 200 pixels per inch at the book’s size, the import warns that it may print soft. A larger original prints sharper.

If something goes wrong

  • “This browser can’t read iPhone HEIC photos”: upload from your phone, or export the photo as JPEG first.
  • “This picture can’t be used in a book.” Every picture is checked before it’s added; choose a different one.
  • “This PDF couldn’t be opened” or it has too many pages: export it again, split it, or upload the pages as pictures.
  • A daily or hourly limit: wait a while, then try again. Pages already added stay in the book.

Bring your pages in

Import pictures or a PDF into a coloring book, then add text and a cover.

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