From a folder of photos
to a printed book.

Edit your photos, arrange a sequence, layout your zine and print pages that fold into a book. Free, and it works offline and without a cloud.

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Import your photos and create a story

01 / 05Sequence

Drop your photos onto an infinite desk

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Import a folder and your photos land on a desk, like prints on a table. Put them side by side to test the pairing, and edit where they sit. Make a sequence on the same desk you edit your photos.

Import: a folder on your disk. Nothing uploads.
Desk: no grid. A photo stays where you put it.
Edit: select a photo and press E to edit your picture.

A young woman in a white blouse turning to the camera, an overgrown hedge going brown behind her — Shuffle your photos around to find a pairing that works.R0000042 · R0001479R0000042 · R0001288R0001960 · R0001288R0001960 · R0001479Pages 6 · 7

A man in tortoiseshell glasses and a white t-shirt, straight on to the camera against a grey wall — Shuffle your photos around to find a pairing that works.R0000042 · R0001479R0000042 · R0001288R0001960 · R0001288R0001960 · R0001479Pages 6 · 7

02 / 05Edit

Edit your photos and find a look

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Press E to edit your photo. Adjust the exposure and the tone, then pick a film negative and a RA4 paper. Adjust hue, saturation and lightness with with the spot colour tool.

Negative: film stock simulations
Paper: print exposure, yellow and magenta
Grain: rendered per material, at the size it prints

A woman resting in hard sun against a pale blue lounger, as the file came off the card — Edit your photos and find a lookAs importedPortra 800 · Portra EnduraFilm mosaic

The same photograph printed on Portra 800 over Portra Endura, the skin warmer and the blue deeper — Edit your photos and find a lookAs importedPortra 800 · Portra EnduraFilm mosaic

03 / 05Layout

Create your zine or photo book

Select the photos for your zine, press B and adjust page layout, placement, margins and typography.

Binding: applied based on your selection
Text: add typography to your pages
Spreads: a photograph across the fold

The finished cover, a dark tree in green and yellow cropped in to the trimmed edge — Create your own photo booksConcrete Flowers Grow · 148 × 182 mmBleedInsetTitle onlyCropped · the cover

Create your own photo booksConcrete Flowers Grow · 148 × 182 mmBleedInsetTitle onlyCropped · the cover

04 / 05Print

Export and print your zines at home

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Print with trim, margins and binding gaps for saddle, stack, perfect or a fold-8 zine. Proof on your own printer to catch mistakes and then export a press-ready PDF.

Bindings: saddle, stack, perfect, fold-8
Proof: on your own printer first
Press-ready: trim and binding gaps in the PDF

The printed zine held open, one photograph of apartment blocks above a cave running across the fold — Printed at home, folded and stapled.Across the foldOne page, one photographA pair, on paperConcrete Flowers Grow · 32 pages

A spread of the printed zine, a girl swinging on a pole beside a family at a lit food stall at night, the facing page blank — Printed at home, folded and stapled.Across the foldOne page, one photographA pair, on paperConcrete Flowers Grow · 32 pages

05 / 05Print shop

Order a printed copy from a print shop

Sell a printed copy

Send your book to a print shop that prints and binds it. Choose the binding, the paper and the cover, and see the price for each before you decide. Your book gets its own page, and anyone with the link can order a copy.

Bindings: stapled or glued
Price: quoted by the shop, no markup
Ships: to 29 countries