Everything you need to know about creating your book. Can't find your answer? Email hello@picbooks.co.uk and we'll reply within 24 hours.
A PicBooks colouring book is a personalised book made from your own photos. We convert your colour photographs into beautiful black-and-white line art — just like a professional colouring book — then print and bind them into a real book and post it to your door.
Between 10 and 24 photos per book — any count in that range. Pricing scales smoothly: £10.99 for 10 pages, then 50p per additional page up to a maximum of £17.99 for 24 pages.
A5 (148mm × 210mm) — the perfect size for sitting down with a pencil case. Glossy cover, premium paper inside.
All our books are printed on premium thick paper that works beautifully with pencils, felt-tip pens, markers and gel pens. None of our paper bleeds through to the other side.
Yes, and many of our customers do. Colouring books featuring children make wonderful personalised gifts. Please ensure you are the parent or guardian of any children featured, or have obtained permission from their parent or guardian. See our Privacy Policy for full details on how we handle images of minors.
The clearest line art comes from:
We accept JPEG (.jpg), PNG (.png), HEIC (the default format from iPhones), and WebP. Photos should be in colour — black-and-white photos can be used but may produce less detailed line art.
Each photo can be up to 15 MB. If your photos are very large we automatically resize them for processing — you won't lose visible quality.
Yes — landscape photos are printed sideways in your book so they fill the page properly. Otherwise they'd be shrunk to fit the portrait page width and you'd lose nearly half the image to white space. You just rotate the book to colour those pages, like a calendar.
Yes. Your photos are stored securely with restricted access, used solely to create your book, and permanently deleted within 30 days of your order being fulfilled. We never use your photos for marketing, AI training, or any other purpose. See our Privacy Policy for full details.
Click "Create Your Book" on our home page, upload your photos, see a free preview of the first page, then proceed to checkout. The whole process takes a few minutes.
Yes. You can preview a sample of your line art before you pay. We want you to be happy with the style before committing.
We accept all major debit and credit cards including Visa, Mastercard and American Express. All payments are processed securely via our payment provider — we never see or store your card details.
Please contact us at hello@picbooks.co.uk as soon as possible. If your order has not yet entered production we will do our best to make changes. Once printing has begun we are unable to make amendments.
Free UK delivery within 2–3 working days of dispatch. See our Shipping & Delivery page for full details.
We're sorry to hear that. Email hello@picbooks.co.uk with photos of the damage within 14 days of receipt and we will reprint and redeliver your book free of charge.
As our books are personalised products they are exempt from standard returns under the Consumer Contracts Regulations 2013. However, if there is a fault on our part we will always put it right. See our Returns Policy for full details.
Turn your phone's gallery into a fun personalised colouring book within minutes. Free preview, no commitment until you love it.
