Your First Project

A project in Coloring Book Engine is one coloring book: its plan, its pages, its cover, and its videos all live together in one folder you choose. Creating one takes under a minute.

Create a New Project

From the Projects screen, choose Start New Project:

You only make three decisions here:

1. Where it lives — pick a workspace folder. Each book becomes a folder inside it, so your whole catalog stays organized in one place.
2. How many pages — anywhere from 20 to 200. For a first book, 50 is the sweet spot: big enough to sell, small enough to finish this week.
3. Book size — pick one of the popular KDP trim-size presets (8.5″ × 11″ is the classic coloring-book format) or enter a custom size in inches or centimeters. Everything downstream — image dimensions, cover spine, export margins — is derived from this choice automatically, so you never have to think about it again.

That’s it. No style setup, no templates, no configuration — the creative decisions happen in the next stage, Plan.

Reading the Progress Dashboard

The Projects screen doubles as your production dashboard. Each project card shows a row of six status dots — one per stage (Plan, Sketch, Coloring, Book, Assets, Videos). Filled dots mean the stage is complete, so you can see at a glance which book needs what:

• A book with four dots filled is waiting on its cover and videos.
• A freshly created book shows six empty dots — a to-do list in miniature.

If you work on several books at once (most publishers do), this view is how you decide what to work on today. Opening any project drops you exactly where you left off.