How Dream & Color works – A Step by Step Guide to Create your Own Custom Coloring Pages

Last Updated: Feb. 6, 2025

Introduction

Currently we allow users to upload and create in 1 of 2 ways...
1) our Classic style, where your images are traced to produce as accurate as possible coloring pages, and
2) our Dream 3.0 style, where AI images are generated using the images you upload; resulting in professional, fun coloring pages from your images.

Please note the screenshots in this guide are slightly outdated since we've made enhancements to our UI and released Dream 3.0.

Upload your Own– Upload your Images to be Converted into Coloring Pages

Dream & Color makes it easy to upload images to create your own coloring pages.

Step 1. navigate to our Create page by clicking the New Book button at the top of your screen

Step 2. you will be presented with an upload area where you can attach your own images by either dragging and dropping your images into the upload area OR clicking our Upload button and selecting your images from the image selector dialog (currently we limit to a maximum of 6 images per 'coloring book')

Step 3. click Upload & Generate to proceed; we will automatically upload your images to our servers and begin transforming them into high quality coloring pages! (Note: depending on server demand, image processing typically takes between 10 and 30 seconds per image but may be extended in periods of high demand)

Edit– the Easiest Way to Edit and Create Custom Coloring Books

Step 1. optional Once you have your custom coloring pages generated, you'll be able to choose the level of detail you want for each page. We offer low, medium, and high levels of detail for our Classic coloring pages (our Dream 3.0 coloring pages do not have separate levels of detail).

This step is optional, you can skip this and proceed directly to export & printing if everything looks good and you're ready to get started coloring!

Step 2. optional After choosing the level of detail that looks right for your coloring page, you can use our masking tool to remove any undesired lines, artifacts, or simply to simplify your coloring page.

Note: we've expanded on our masking tool, allowing users to select various brush sizes when erasing parts of their image.

Step 3. optional Preview an overlay of your original image by using the Show Color Image checkbox.

Export and Print

Once you've edited your coloring pages Dream & Color makes it easy to export your high resolution custom coloring book to PDF for printing at home or simply opening in your favorite digital painting app.

Step 1. Choose either Preview & Export from the bottom right of any page or, if you're on the last page of your book, the blue Export button.
Step 2. Once the Export editor is open you'll see options to set the transparency of the lines and whether or not to add a border to the finished pages. Note: these options are applied globally to all of your coloring pages.
Step 3. Finally, click Download PDF to download your completed coloring book ready to print!

Congratulations, you've successfully created your first custom coloring book!

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