Guide

Make a coloring book from your photos

Making a coloring book from your photos takes about ten minutes and needs nothing more than the pictures already on your phone. You upload them, choose how detailed the drawings should be, and download a printable book. The first page is free so you can see the real result before deciding.

Step one — gather the photos

Open your camera roll and pick between one and twenty pictures. The easiest way to choose is to give the book a subject: one child's year, a holiday, the pets, the wedding, the garden across four seasons. A book with a subject is far easier to assemble than a book of "nice photos", and it reads better afterwards.

JPG, PNG and WEBP files all work, straight from the phone, and you can add, remove, replace or reorder photos at any point before you buy.

Step two — choose how the pages look

There are four treatments, running from bold and simple to fine and detailed. Bold is right for toddlers and preschoolers, who need big areas and few lines. Detailed is right for teenagers and adults, who want something absorbing. If you are unsure, the middle settings suit most family books, and you can always retry a page in a different style.

Each page is generated as pure black line art on white, then cleaned up so no grey haze or leftover colour makes it into the print. That matters more than it sounds: grey areas look dirty under crayon and waste ink.

Step three — print it

Your finished book downloads as a print-ready PDF in both A4 and US Letter. Every drawing sits alone on its sheet with wide margins, so home printers never clip an edge and you never get a stray blank page in the middle. There is also a blank-backs option that puts an empty sheet behind each drawing for tidy double-sided printing.

Print at home on ordinary paper for everyday use, or take the file to a print shop and ask for 120gsm and a spiral binding if you want it to last.

What it costs

10 pages for US$6.99, or 20 pages for US$11.99 with chapter dividers and a dedication page. One payment, no subscription, and the preview page costs nothing.

Common questions

Will it look like the person? Usually yes, and clearly recognisable. AI sometimes alters a small detail, so every page can be retried once for free.

Can I use photos of my children? Yes, if you are the parent or guardian or you have consent. You confirm that before anything is generated.

What happens to my photos? Originals are private, never published, and deleted automatically twenty-four hours after your pages are made. Your book is kept for thirty days unless you delete it sooner.

Related reading: turning a single photo into a coloring page and all guides.