Amazing 1.3 Million FREE Images for KDP Book Cover Designs

 One of the big issues of creatingbooks and publishing books online is getting customers to noticeyour book and click on them. Well, in this video, we're going to try and overcome thatby showing you how to create attractive vintage style book covers, using images that can be found onlinethat are in the public domain and are free to use commercially, but there are a few steps that you needto go through so that you can use them effectively. And that's what I'mgoing to show you in this video. So if you are trying to startup a publishing business,publish your own books, make money online, um,create a passive income, then follow along as I show you how now, if you've not been to this channel beforethen 

welcome my name's dinesh, and I do videos on how tomake it, keep it and grow it. And that's your money I'm talking about.And if you do like videos like that, then please do give it a thumbs up, hit the subscribe button and smashthat notification bell to receive notification of when Iproduce more videos like this. Now this video is the second in athree-part series on creating attractive striking stunning bookcovers using vintage style graphics. So if you haven't watched that, then I'll leave a linkto that video down below, and you can watch it after watchingthis video or pause this video, watch that first, andthen come back to this. And in that video I showed you howto use a resource of free vintage style graphics to create a, whatI thought was quite, uh, uh, striking looking fishing journalbook cover. Now in this video, as I mentioned, we're going to go onestep further and we're going to find, or I'm going to give you some resourcesof images that are available in the public domain and can beused commercially well, 99.99999% of them can. So let's go straight aheadand get started on this. So here we have this website@biodiversitylibrary.org, and here we've got a couple of links. So go over to view more images on flicker, and it will open this webpage here. And we have all thesealbums of different types of images. Now these are relatedto sort of natural history. 

So they're going to be insects,birds, plants, that type of thing. And if we just click on one here, which is related to I thinkbutterflies and moths, I'm sure some expertsout there will tell me, but it looks like there's bothbutterflies and moths here. And we click on one of these images.It will take us to a page like this, and we can see we've got these imageshere of what appears to me to be butterflies. And if you justscroll down slightly here, you'll see the license. Andit says in the public domains, and it will take us to this pagehere. Now it says no copyright. This work has been identified asbeing free of known restrictions. And you can copy, modify, distribute, work on these images and evenuse them commercially. However, it does say the work may not befree of no copyright restrictions in all jurisdictions, which means basicallyin every single country. So what I advise doing is,first of all, just looking, if you can see here, the date, when the image waspublished here it is 1891. So. There's very, very, very. Slim chance that there's any copyright,uh, on this particular image. But what I would advise doing is goingover to Google image search and doing a reverse search on an image, and you just click on upload imageand you can choose a file to upload. In this case I'll use an image ofsome beetles that I downloaded, and this is a sort of result you willget. And here there is very little, and there's nothing to indicate therethat someone has ownership of these images or has a copyright on them. So I would suggest doing thatreally for any image that you do use just to double check andmake sure everything's okay. So when you found theimage that you like here, it's just a case of clicking on download. You'll be given these optionshere for the image size. 

I normally go for the biggest image sizeso that you are downloading the, the, the biggest, best qualityimage that's available. And I also did the samefor some butterflies. Or, or moths, I thinkthey were butterflies. What you can also do on theflicker page is go to photo stream. And then you can click on search.So you could put something in. Like butterflies into the search. Click enter, and you'll haveall these images appear, which you can then search through,find something that you might like. And if we look on this main page, wecan see here on the right-hand side, that we've got a resource of over 319,000 photos. Now in the previous video, I did mention a resourceof over 1 million photos. So that takes us to the next site. And this is the flicker page of theBritish library. As you can see here, we've got over 1 millionphotos. So in total, we've got over 1.3 millionphotos to search through tofind something that would look good on our book covers. And I'm sure you can findsomething that would fit the bill. So if we go through here,we've got all these albums. Now these are not justnatural history type photos.

 They've got all sorts of things here,science fiction type images, clocks, and timepieces, uh, machinery. I quite like the machinery ones becauseyou can find architecture, machinery, sort of technical, um, drawing typeimages, which are very effective, uh, on notebook covers. And alsofor other items that you can sell, which we will be coming to in the third, in this series of three videos whereI'll show you how to use these types of images, we're going to createto diversify your income. Hopefully make more money and also bydiversifying protect your income as well. So let's get back to thisBritish library resource. Again, you can click on photo stream, clickon search and find anything you like, I'm going to look at maps because I'mgoing to create a cover with vintage maps. And you can see we're presentedwith all these different images here. So if I click on this image,we've got details down here, which will tell us when thiswas published. So again, 1861. So that will be out of copyright. Now, the slight difference is with the Britishlibrary is that they have this here, where it says no known copyrightrestrictions, which is slightly different. And you can read about it here. If you click on the link and I suggestyou do because you really, you know, it's your business. You need to make yourself familiarwith all these licensing agreements. And basically what it says is thereis no known copyright, but again, cannot guarantee there. 

Is no copyright at all or someonedoesn't own the photograph or. Or rights to it, or whatever. So again, I suggest just doing that reverse imagesearch that I just showed you how to do just to double check there'sno copyrights on there. And that's also a useful thing todo on any image that you might be downloading from siteslike Pixabay or unsplash, where it says that they're copyright free, but they're not always in every case andI do a search like that on every single image I use. Now, what we need to do next is afterwe've downloaded our images, these are going to be raster images. So they're going to be usually sortof PNG files or JPEG or JPG files. And we want to convert them into vectors. Now I'll show you what the difference is. So if we take this image that wedownloaded and all I did was once I downloaded it, just draggedit into affinity designer. And if we enlarge this image, we can see that prettyquickly it pixelates. So with raster images, you can't enlarge them sort ofinfinitely because they do pixelate and degrade. And the other issue is we can't justput a box around a beetle and drag it on copied or use it on ourcover or anywhere else. What you'd have to do is go round,trace, round the edge of the image, then cut it out and then copy andpaste it, which can take some time. And again, you've got that issue ofthe pixelation. Now with a vector, I'll show you the difference. Nowwe've got the same image here, but if we enlarge it, it doesn'tpixelate. Now, if you do enlarge it, yes, the colors break down a bit, buthere's one of the biggest benefits.

 You can take an image,say this beetle here, you can drag a bounding box around it like so just command Cor control C to copy, then go to a blank page and justcommand V or control V to paste. And there we have our image of abeetle, which we can move around. Can enlarge it, make it smaller, dowhatever we like with it, rotate it. Now, what you would need to do is, and you can do this with vectorimages is clean up the image. Now we can see here, we've got these components like thisnumber two and this little dot there. We can just, bounding box aroundthat, delete it. This here, delete it. We can enlarge our image and find allthese bits of artifacts here. Delete them, delete them, just clickon them, delete them. And also you'll notice here aroundthe edges of this particular insect. We've got this coloration here,so we can clean this up as well. And what you can do isclick on it, press delete, and you can see we've tidied up the edges.And we might do that again once more. So again, just click on thatparticular color delete again. Now, if you go too far, you can just undo the action byclicking command or control Z or Z, if you're in the states, and you can go through each Beatle image, just copy and paste it andclean it up to use later. 

And also one of the big benefits. If we create a vector imageout of our main image, we can click on the background likethis and just drag it or delete it. So the next question is, how do we create these vectorimages well you can do it in software like Inkscapeor Adobe illustrator, you can't do it in affinity designeror affinity photo unfortunately, whether that feature will come up atsome point, I don't know, but if it does, that would be a real boom to that,that particular piece of software, but you can do it in Adobe illustrator, but I know a lot of you out theredon't use Adobe illustrator, which is fair enough. It's not thecheapest bit of software to use. It's only available ona subscription basis. So if we go over to Googleand you can do this, just search for image, tracesoftware, or image tracing software, and you'll have all these options here. And you've got websites that havelisted the best vectorization software or vectorizers or image tracing software. Now I went and had a look at these tolook at what the alternatives were. 

There are some free alternatives,there are some paid alternatives. So I went to head over to vectorizer.io. And now this is not a free pieceof software. You do have to pay, but it says here, ten creditsis two Australian dollars, 74, which is around about two us dollars. Nowthat will give you quite a few images. And if we look at this beetle one here, this one process has given usnine separate images of beetles, which works out at roundabout 22 centsor something like that per beetle, which I think is prettyreasonable. But as I said, you can find software thatwill do it for you for free. The results may not be as good, a quality. I'm not sure because Ihaven't gone through all thedifferent software out there that's available. So how doyou use this bit of software? Well it's just a case ofclicking on upload images, finding the image you want to vectorizedouble clicking on it and it will do all the work for you. Now there'sall these different settings. But what I used here was justthe absolute standard settings. I didn't make a change to anything at all. Then all you need to do once it's done, its job is just click on downloadand it will download the vector image to your computer, which you can then just drag intowhichever image editing software you use.

 Now it has to be vector editing. Software that you use. Sothat's the common ones are. Affinity designer, Adobe illustratorInkscape and gravit designer. There might be some others out there. Ithink vectornator might be another one. So then once I got all theimages I wanted to use, it was then a case of creating the bookcover. Now I won't go through all the, the book of a templatewhere to obtain it from her, how to set it up because Idid that in the first video. So I'd be wasting your time. So if youwant to know how to set up the page, go to that first video, watch that, and then come back and use theimages that you've created. And what I did was just draggedall those images that I vectorized and dragged them into thisnotebook template page that I created in affinity designer. And you can see each one ofthese is easily moveable around, so you can arrange them, adjust the angle, make it look aesthetically pleasing. And I left this spacehere for some writing, which is going to be the title ofour notebook, a nature log book. So I wrote in there naturelog book, and again, as I mentioned in the previousvideo for these types of log books, I do like a handwriting typefont. And we've got this one here, which is actually theamatic font, A M A T I C. And whilst creating this cover, I can switch on the template that Idownloaded from bookow.com and made sure that everything here waswithin this pink border. Now, what you can do is put a bounding boxaround everything, press down option, left click on the mouseand just drag across and position that like so,

 we can get rid of these wordshere and then just rearrange our insects a little bit tocover, to fill that space. And you could have a similar sort offront cover image on the back cover of the book as well. And just doublecheck by turning on our template, that all the images are withinthat pink border, which they are. So we're good to go onthis cover. Overall, the cover will look something likethis, which I think looks pretty good. Now the next cover we're going to createis going to be even more simple because we're not even going to need tovectorize these images. So we'll go over, back over to the British librarypage. And as you remember earlier, I did a search for maps and I'm just goingto click on some maps that look a bit unusual, look a bit attractive andjust click on download. And again, the highest quality, the biggest size I downloaded Ithink it was roundabout eight or nine images of these maps, sort of vintage maps I checkedeach one for the copyright and then went back over to affinitydesigner and over our template I just dragged in these imagesof the maps and arranged them like so no particular order, just something that looked a bit random,all the maps at different angles. And then the next step to this wasputting in a shape on which to put our text and for this we'regoing to have an ellipse. 

So I just clicked on the ellipsetool and then just drag create an ellipse. Now that'shidden beneath our maps. I'm just going to drag that ellipseto the top in our layers panel. And then on top of this ellipse place,some text, and I've already written some, which I'll just switch on here.This is going to be travel journal. Now I'm just going to move that ellipse. I'm just going to reducethe size of that slightly, like so and there we have it a pretty decent looking book cover.Doesn't take long to create. And the book will actually, when itgoes on to Amazon will look like this, which again, I think you'llagree. It looks pretty good. Now what I'm going to do isactually give away these two covers to two lucky winnerswho watch this video now in order to be in with a chanceof getting one of these covers, what you need to do is go alongto my website, paulmarles.com, supply your email, andsubscribe to the newsletter, which I'm going to start creating soon. Make sure you subscribe to thischannel and then leave a comment down below. And in the next video, I'll pick out the two luckywinners at random, who will each. Receive the traveljournal or the nature log book, book cover. And I'll supply. 

These in PNG and PDFformats, not the original, vector source file, but Justthe PNG and the PDF file. So the PDF file will be ready toupload to the Amazon KDP platform without you having to do anything at all. And this will be for a six bynine inch book with 120 pages. So all you need to do issupply your own interior, which you can create yourself orpurchase of a site like creative fabrica. Now, as I said, hopefully all the links to thesites that I've used will be in the description below. Remember ifyou haven't yet watched that first video, I suggest you do so because it showsyou how to set up and create the cover in the first place. And if you've notseen that,

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