A coloring book is the quickest way to see the whole pipeline, because coloring and activity pages can run on the keyless image provider that ships with the plugin.
- Open the New Book tab. Pick Coloring Book, type a theme such as dinosaurs having fun, choose an art style, set the page count, then click Create Book.
- Watch the progress panel. Pages are generated by a background queue, so you can leave the screen and come back. The page grid fills in as images arrive.
- Review the grid. Every generated page gets a thumbnail with a Reroll button. Reroll regenerates only that one page against the same locked style.
- Open the Publish tab. Generate the listing kit, click Build Export Files, then download the PDFs and follow the upload checklist.
The onboarding ladder:
Zero keys gets you coloring and activity books through the keyless provider. Adding one free Google AI Studio key unlocks full color story books with a locked character, plus the AI story writer, the listing kit and the AI Rewrite button. Additional provider keys add more art engines and image styles.
How long does it take?
The background queue processes up to three pages per minute, so a thirty page book is roughly ten minutes of unattended generation. Journals are much faster because their interiors are drawn as vectors at export time and need no image generation at all.
Do not skip the review pass. One weak page in a printed book is the page a reviewer photographs. Rerolling is cheap and fast, so be ruthless before you export.