Paige for coloring books

Before you start

• An active free trial or subscription. A new trial comes with a balance of 40 pages, which is enough for a full first book.
• Each page Paige finishes uses 1 page from your balance. The balance is at the top of the screen, for example “40 pages”.
• A rough idea: who the book is for and what it’s about. If you don’t have one yet, Paige can suggest some (step 2).
• About five minutes of your time. The drawing itself happens in the background.

Step by step

1. 1

   Open the coloring book wizard

   Use whichever of these is closest:

   • In the left menu, click Book Generation, then Coloring Books.
   • On your dashboard, click the Coloring book with Paige card. Once you have a few books it shrinks to a small Coloring book button under “Start a book”.
   • Go to /paige/new, leave Coloring book selected, and click Next.

   You land on a page with a purple header that reads “Paige · Coloring book” and a card labelled Brief, “Step 1 of 4”.

   

2. 2

   Optional: let Paige suggest an idea

   If you’re not sure what to make, open the Not sure where to start? panel at the top of the card. It opens by itself while the title is empty. Click Suggest niches. After a few seconds you’ll see “5 ideas — pick one”.

   Click an idea to fill in the title, theme and description for you. A message confirms “Niche applied”, and you can still edit everything. Click Suggest again for a new batch. Suggestions are free.

   Ideas are based on the audience and art style you’ve chosen, so set those first (step 4) if you have a reader in mind.

   

3. 3

   Describe your book

   Under “About your book”, fill in:

   • Book title (required, up to 100 characters). This becomes the book’s name in your library.
   • Theme & subject (required, up to 200 characters). Paige writes every page from this, so be specific about the mood, characters and setting. For example: “Friendly forest creatures going about their day — a fox sketching by a stream, a bear reading under a tree.”
   • Marketing description (optional, up to 1,000 characters). This is the blurb for your KDP listing. Paige’s idea cards fill it in for you.

   The purple header updates to show your title and page count as you type.

   

4. 4

   Choose the audience and art style

   Under “Audience & feel”, click an Audience: Kids (4–8), Tweens (9–12), Teens (13–17), Adults or All ages.

   Then click an Art style card. Pick one of these six:

   • Standard Coloring Book: clean, balanced line art that suits almost any subject.
   • Kids Coloring Book (the default): bold outlines and big spaces to color, good for young children.
   • Cozy & Cottagecore: warm, illustrated scenes with cute animals.
   • Intricate Patterns: mandala and zentangle-style detail for adult relaxation books.
   • Detailed & Realistic: pen-and-ink with crosshatching, good for vehicles, buildings and nature.
   • Bold & Mature: thick-line art for adult books with grown-up themes or humor.
5. 5

   Optional: add a recurring character

   Most coloring books don’t need one. If yours has a mascot who should look the same on every page, use the Characters section. Click Add from library to choose someone you’ve already saved, or Create new to make one now. You can add up to 4, and the counter shows “1/4 characters” and so on.

   Paige redraws a character in this book’s style when you add them, which takes 30–60 seconds and is free. If their chip then says Needs a look, click the chip, click one of the three pictures, and click Save character. For the full details, see My Characters.

6. 6

   Set the page count and page size

   Under “Format”:

   • Page count: click a preset, type a number in the box after “or”, or drag the slider.
     • On a free trial the presets are 8, 16 and 24, and the line underneath reads “5–24 pages on trial, each from your trial balance.”
     • On a paid plan the presets are 20, 30, 50, 75 and 100, and the line reads “5–100 pages, each from your balance.”
     Either way, the line ends with your current balance (“You have N pages.”).
   • Page format: click 8.5 × 11 (the default and the most common coloring book size), 8 × 10, 7 × 10 or 6 × 9. Each option is drawn to scale so you can compare shapes. Choose now, because the size can’t be changed after Paige draws the pages.

   

7. 7

   Let Paige draft the prompts

   Click Draft N prompts at the bottom of the card (for example, Draft 8 prompts). This step is free and usually takes 10–30 seconds.

   Paige saves your brief and takes you to step 2. The address bar changes to a link of your own (/paige/…) that you can bookmark.

   Not ready to continue? Click Save as draft instead. See Saving a draft below.

8. 8

   Check and edit the prompts

   The header now reads “Edit prompts”, and the card shows Prompts, “Step 2 of 4”. Each row is the description Paige will draw for one page.

   • Edit: click into any prompt and type.
   • Reorder: drag a row by the handle on its left.
   • Add a page: click + (“Add prompt below”) and write the new prompt.
   • Remove a page: click the trash icon. A book needs at least 5 prompts, so the icon greys out at 5.
   • Re-draft all: get a completely new list from Paige. This replaces every prompt, including ones you edited.

   Edits on this screen aren’t saved until you start drawing in the next step. Finish your changes before you leave or refresh the page.

   

9. 9

   Start drawing

   Click Looks good — render N pages. This is the step that uses your balance: 1 page for each page that finishes, so an 8-page book uses 8. Pages that fail aren’t charged.

   The header changes to “Rendering pages”. You’ll see:

   • A status line such as “Generating images 1–3 of 8…”
   • A counter (“2/8 rendered”) and a progress bar
   • One tile per page. Each fills in with the finished picture as it’s drawn. Click a finished tile to see it full size, and use Previous and Next to flip through.

   Paige draws three pages at a time, about half a minute per batch. An 8-page book usually takes 1–2 minutes and a 50-page book about 10.

   You can close the tab. As the page says, “You can close this page — your images will keep generating in the background.” Your book already appears on your dashboard under its title. To check on it later, open it from there and finished pages show up in the editor as they arrive. Don’t click Looks good — render again from your draft link: that starts a second copy of the book and uses your balance again.

   

10. 10

    Open your book in the editor

    When every page is done, the wizard moves on by itself. You’ll see a green check, “Your book is ready”, and two choices: Open in editor, or Generate another book to start the next one.

    Click Open in editor. Your book opens on page 1, with every page in the strip along the bottom. Count the pages there: if Paige couldn’t draw one, it won’t be in the strip and you won’t have been charged for it. Add a replacement with the editor’s Coloring Page panel. When the pages look right, follow the “Make a cover” banner to start on your KDP cover.

    Your first fully finished coloring book earns a one-time bonus of 10 pages.

    

    

If something goes wrong

• The Draft N prompts button is greyed out. Fill in both Book title and Theme & subject. If a red box says “Not enough pages — you have X pages and this book needs Y pages.”, lower the page count, or click the button in the box to get more: Upgrade now on a trial, Upgrade plan on a plan.
• “Could not draft prompts”. If the message underneath reads “Invalid request body”, pick one of the six art styles in step 4 and one of the four page sizes in step 6, then try again. If it reads “Got 18/20 prompts back from the model — try a shorter theme or fewer pages.”, shorten your theme or lower the page count.
• “At least 5 prompts required”. Add prompts with +, or click Re-draft all, until you have 5 or more that aren’t empty.
• “Could not start rendering”. Read the message underneath. Usually your balance is too low: remove a few prompts, or get more pages and try again.
• “Network hiccup: … Retrying…”. Your connection dropped for a moment. Paige keeps drawing on our servers, and the page reconnects by itself.
• The progress says “Stopped at 0/8”. Nothing was drawn and nothing was charged. Click Retry. If it stops again, look for prompts that name characters from films or TV: the AI’s safety filter blocks those. Describe the character by appearance instead (“a small blue alien”), and keep themes family-friendly unless you chose Bold & Mature.
• I closed the tab while it was drawing. That’s fine. Drawing carries on without you. Open the book from your dashboard to see the pages so far.
• The book has fewer pages than I asked for. A page Paige couldn’t draw is left out and not charged. Add replacements from the editor (see Replacing a page’s picture).

What it costs

• Each finished page uses 1 page from your balance. An 8-page book uses 8 and a 24-page book uses 24. Pages that fail aren’t charged.
• Free: idea suggestions, drafting and re-drafting prompts, saving drafts, and adding characters.
• Bonus: your first fully finished coloring book adds 10 bonus pages to your balance.
• Fixing a single page later in the editor works differently. See Replacing a page’s picture and Pages & billing.

Already have a project?

Paige also works inside the editor. Open any project and expand the Prompt Generator panel in the left sidebar. Enter a theme and have Paige draft up to 25 prompts, then click Use this → on any prompt, or Generate all N pages to draw up to 10 at a time. The new pages are added to the end of the book. See the Prompt Generator section of the editor guide.