Zine

Paper size

Pick the paper your printer uses. You can change this later.

Format

Landscape turns upward like a top-bound book.

Zine title (optional)

Drop your photos here

A handful is plenty. They flow into pages on their own, and you can rearrange later.

Choose photos Open a Saved Zine

Not sure where to begin? Pick a starter.

Saved

Cover 8 pages

Add new photos

Refine

Photos on every page off

White space

Layout for this page

Signature look

Strength

This photo

Replace photo

Write

Text

Lock heading and body text

Caption

Caption size

Date off

Style

Font pairs

Ink

Heading size

Set just this pageBody size

Set just this page

Order in the book

Move this page move to page

Export Your Zine

A tip: downloads are quickest in Chrome. Safari works, it's just slower.

Paper size

Format

Page numbers off

Fold guide lines off

One PDF, already arranged onto double-sided sheets in fold order. Print double-sided, fold the stack in half, staple. No Booklet setting needed.

Print pages - one side at a time

For any printer, even without double-sided. Print a sheet, flip it, print the back. Stack, fold in half.

The same zine printed twice on one sheet, at half the size (4.25 x 5.5"). Print double-sided, cut across the middle, fold each half. You get two.

A zip of clean image pages, photos only, no text, one per page in order. Drop them into any Canva size and make it yours.

Numbered page images, sized for the web so your page stays quick to load. Drop them onto a page on your site. Want your pages to turn like a real book on your site? A Squarespace Flip Book plug-in is coming soon, sold separately.

Your zine turning page by page, as a short silent video for Instagram, Facebook, YouTube or your site. Add music where you post it.

The spread you’re on goes to the Social photo tray. Add its images to your pages there.

Printing the booklet

Open the downloaded PDF on your computer and choose Print.
Print double-sided. When asked which edge to flip, choose short edge (sometimes 'flip on short side'). This keeps the back of every sheet the right way up.
Leave Booklet OFF, and set scale to 100% or Actual size, not Fit to page. Zine has already arranged the pages, so it prints like a normal document.
Stack the sheets in the order they printed, fold the whole stack in half down the centre, and staple twice along the fold.

Printing one side at a time

Open the downloaded file on your computer and choose Print. Set scale to 100% or Actual size, not Fit to page.
Print the first sheet on one side.
Put the sheet back in with the blank side ready to print. On a rear-feed printer, like the Epson P700 or ET-8550, just set it back in with the blank side facing you. On a front tray, turn it over left to right, like turning a page.
Print the next page onto the back.
Do the same for each sheet. Stack them in order, fold the whole stack in half, and you're done.

For the JPEGs, the file names walk you through it: print '01-print-first', put the sheet back in, print '02-flip-and-print', and on. Try one sheet on plain paper first so you know how your printer likes it.

How to use the Canva photos

Unzip the file. Inside are your pages as images, named page-01, page-02, in order.
In Canva, start a design and drag the images in. Each one is a full page.
Add your own titles, words and touches on top. Nothing is locked.