ISO print on demand and colouring book making tutorials

Sfariah D

I want to make an colouring book for adults but I need to figure out two things.  How to convert renders to colouring book pages with Photoshop CS6.  I am aware of the plugin that does something like that but I do not have it not can I get it at the moment.

I also need to know if there are any print on demand book companies that can help me print and sell the adult colouring books.  

 

Edited for clarity

bad4u

If 'adult' does not mean sexually explicit, check out self-publishing with amazon, there should be a link on amazon footer. It's not only for kindle content, but print on demand as well, I think.

Sfariah D

adult does not mean anything sexually related at all in this context   There is nothing that would make them not child friendly, but geared towards adults to help them relax.  Sorry for the confusion.

FirstBastion

You would probably want to phrase it Coloring book for adults or Coloring book for Grown-ups

https://www.google.ca/search?q=coloring+book+for+adults&gbv=1&sei=PTITWKH-GcX-jwSYs68Q

If you use the 3DL cartoon renderer option,  but change all the textures on the models to light grey,  you should get coloringbook like images.

Sfariah D

FirstBastion said:

You would probably want to phrase it Coloring book for adults or Coloring book for Grown-ups

https://www.google.ca/search?q=coloring+book+for+adults&gbv=1&sei=PTITWKH-GcX-jwSYs68Q

If you use the 3DL cartoon renderer option,  but change all the textures on the models to light grey,  you should get coloringbook like images.

Oh my bad.  I want to make colouring book for adults.  Okay thanks

Ostadan

It is, parenthetically, sad that the 'adult film industry' has polluted the word 'adult' in this way.  Especially since 'adult entertainment' generally is anything but adult; more for adolescent boys in adult bodies.

Tobor

There are no magic filters or settings to create instant hard outlines from 3D rendered scenes, though you might be able to develop a workflow using some 3Delight toon shader renderers in D|S. Look around for free/paid filters and actions for Photoshop that will convert the image to outlines only. You will still probably need to do at least some manual cleanup, and possibly then port over to Illustrator where you can convert to vectors. In Illustrator you can clean up the lines even more.

Check out the 'Non-photorealistic Renders' thread in the Art Studio forum here for some examples of what people with these types of renders. There are a couple of examples of producing outlining using various techniques. Given that this (coloring books for grownups) is a saturated market. your art and gimmick will need to be pretty stand-out, so it might take some concerted effort to get a truly commercial result. 

McGyver

For the outline drawing part of your coloring book venture, you could try using the demo of Filter Forge... There are several filters that can transform a photo into what can pass as a line drawing... 

I've done it a few times, but not with a render... My guess would be if you are using a render, try and do it in a toon style so as to eliminate unnecessary detail... Then try running the render through these filters:

 Extra edges:      https://www.filterforge.com/filters/9092.html    Or  StevieJ's Sketch-Black: https://www.filterforge.com/filters/4266.html 

That might require some tweaking of the base settings until you get something you like...

Then you can further isolate the edges using :  Sketch Cleaner Lite: https://www.filterforge.com/filters/2297.html  

After that you can mess with various settings/filters/effects in Photoshop until you get a look you like.

 

Good luck.

Joe Webb

There is LineRender9000. I haven't had time to do that much with it, but it seems to do what you are looking for.

I got this image after a little fiddling around. There is a learning curve but once you get it you can generate a lot, quickly. This image is one of the first I made, with no postwork.

 

 

McGyver

The plugin mentioned above by Joe Webb is a lot cheaper than Filter Forge and is probably a cheaper alternative...

But since I mentioned using Filter Forge, I thought I'd try something and see if it worked better then the way I did it before...

Basically I took a crappy alien parasite I had modeled and brought it into DS (4.8)... Instead of rendering it, because why bother, I don't need a great looking render, I just set up the shot, set the background color to light grey, and the draw style to "smooth shaded" and screen captured the model.

That image was around 1300 x 780 or something... Kinda small... So I put it in Photoshop and bumped it up to 2400 x whatever... Which is fine because while making images bigger usually means crappier, it doesn't matter in this case because I was gonna run it through a filter that will refine the image and simplify it... I also removed the rotation and other widgets on the top right of the screen capture...

So next, I opened up Filter Forge (5) and ran that image through several different outline filters... I think this one came out the best compromise

I think it's StevieJ's  Sketch-Black... (I rendered several different filters and sorta forgot which it was)

The thing to consider doing it this way is there is really no rendering... But you do have to render it Filter Forge and upsize it in Photoshop... But it was pretty quick and there are a lot of controls... The whole thing took less than five minutes...

 

I guess this is less for the OP then anyone who might be interested in Filter Forge or already own it...

P.S.- Filter Forge often goes on sale for 70-80% off... So it's worth trying out the demo to see if you like it and if you do, waiting for a sale.