Eight photos, one sheet of paper, one cut. Lay it out here, save the PDF and print it at home.
or drop them on the sheet
Drop your photos here
A cover, six pages inside and a back, all from one sheet with one cut. Every photo in the picture came out of this template.
You need a printer, one sheet of paper and scissors.
1 · Choose your eight
Tap them in reading order. The first one is the cover, and the sheet shows where each one lands.
2 · Arrange it
Turn the pages to read your zine, or switch to the sheet to see how it prints. Tap two pages to swap them.
3 · Print, fold, cut once
Print on one side at actual size, not fit to page. Then fold along the dashed lines and cut the red one.
Pick a layout and a typeface. The back can match the front, or one wide photo can run round both.
The back and the cover print side by side on the sheet, so one wide photo can wrap around the outside. Slide it to choose what lands on the front.
Drag a photo on its page and it settles on one of nine places, in one of three sizes. It always prints inside the margin.
The same sheet with no photos, to glue prints into or draw on. Each panel carries its page number, and the top row is upside down so it reads the right way up once folded.
A panel is 74 × 105 mm on A4, 53 × 74 mm on A5 or 70 × 108 mm on Letter. Print your photos a little smaller than that and glue each one into the panel with its number. It prints and folds the same way as the sheet with your photos.
To see a whole shoot small before you choose the eight, put it on a sheet with the contact sheet maker.
This sheet comes from Abney, a free app for making photo books and zines. A zine you make here opens there with its photos in place.
A print shop staples a book of 8 to 96 pages and ships it. Abney runs in Chrome on a Mac or PC, and your originals never upload to the cloud.
A zine folded from one sheet of A4, A5 or Letter is too small for the print shop, so you print that one at home.
Yes. There is no account and no watermark, and you can pass the file on.
Yes. Choose eight at the top of the page and tap them in the order you want to read them. The first one is the cover. Photos past eight wait in Spares beside the sheet, and you can drag one onto any page. The cover takes a title and a layout, and any page takes a caption. Your photos never leave your device.
The sheet your printer takes. A4 makes pages of 74 × 105 mm, US Letter 70 × 108 mm (2.75 × 4.25 in) and A5 53 × 74 mm. Print at actual size, not fit to page.
On one side of the sheet, at actual size, from your browser. The blank template and the PDF you save at the top of this page print the same way.
Matt paper around 100 to 140 g, the inkjet paper sold as presentation or matt photo paper. Plain 80 g copier paper folds well, but the photos look flat and show through. People who print these at home report that from 160 g up the fold cracks and the pages stop lying flat, and glossy photo paper cracks the same way.
The print was probably scaled. Fit to page shrinks the sheet, so the printed lines stop matching the paper's halves. Pick 100 percent or actual size in the print dialog, and fold edge to edge. If your printer cannot print to the edge, the lines stop short, and the folds are still right.
Both open the PDF as a picture, and so does Word. There is no editable layout file. The sheet at the top of this page lays your photos out in the right order for you.
This one is eight, from one sheet. For more, make a stapled book in Abney: four pages to a sheet, printed on both sides and stapled on the crease. A print shop binds the same book up to 96 pages.
From the shoot
to the fold.
Eight photos and one sheet. It takes the time a printer takes.
