Website turns your Instagram photos into a coloring book
Adult coloring books are all the rage and colored pencil sales can prove it.
With so many options for various types of coloring books, it seems natural that the activity would take a customizable route. Enter Color Me Book, which allows users to turn their Instagram photos into a totally custom coloring book.
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"My fiancé was coloring in an adult coloring book and I thought it would be a great idea to get a personalized one made with photos of our dogs," Color Me Book creator (and CCO, or "Chief Coloring Officer") Cory Will told Mashable in an email.
"I was shocked I couldn't it anywhere. So I had a friend, who owns a print shop, make me one. When I showed friends and family my gift to her, the reaction was so positive. I decided to build a website on Shopify and we officially launched on [April 12]."
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All you have to do is upload your favorite Instagram posts to the Color Me Book website and soon enough, they'll come back to you ready for a coloring session.
In terms of what makes for the best coloring pages, Will likes to keep it relatively simple.
"I personally think photos of people and pets are the best," he says. "I mean, who doesn't want to color in pictures of their pets?"
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As for whether you can use any Instagram account you'd like, Will cautions to keep it in the family.
"If you use a different [Instagram] account, you should know the person you are ordering for," he says. "For example, a surprise gift or coloring books for a birthday party."
So maybe don't try to use one of Justin Bieber's Instagram pictures this time around. Unless you're surprising him for his birthday, in which case you should definitely use this photo.
The custom five-page coloring book will cost you $25, but the ability to change the color of your shirt or ice cream cone flavor from the original Instagram picture is priceless.
Just make sure you take a well-filtered photo of your coloring book pages to post to your Instagram.
[h/t Cosmopolitan]
