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A computer with an up-to-date browser, and your photographs. You can look around on a phone, but the studio is made for a larger screen.

If you’re not sure, start with A5 portrait. It’s a familiar zine size and costs less to print than A4. Choose A4 when your photographs need more room, and landscape when most of them are landscape. You can change format later.

In your browser, on your computer. They aren’t uploaded while you work.

Your project lives in the browser you made it in. Save a project file regularly: you can open it on another computer and carry on. Without a project file, clearing your browser deletes your project.

JPEG or PNG. Phone HEIC files and TIFFs open in Safari but not in Chrome, so save them as JPEGs first. Before you add photos has a short checklist.

Move the prints around on the table. Rows read left to right and top to bottom, and every print shows its number, so you can see the order as you go.

Stapled zines are made from sheets folded in half, and each sheet makes four pages. The studio offers 16 to 40 pages, in steps of four.

The Print at home PDF on the Export step. You print it on both sides of A4, fold it and staple it into a rough copy, called a dummy. Use it to check the order, the sizes and how it feels in your hands before you pay.

Two: Print at home, ready to fold and staple, and Spreads for screen, for sharing your zine on a screen. Both are free, with no watermark, and both carry one small line, “Made with zinehouse.studio”, on the inside back cover. It can’t be removed from the free PDFs.

One payment of £X per zine for the print-ready PDF, whatever the size or page count. It’s the file you send to a printer: every page with 3 mm bleed, crop marks if you want them and photographs at full print resolution. Designing and printing at home are free, and there’s no subscription.

Yes, £1 less. At checkout, leave the box ticked to add “Made with zinehouse.studio” to your colophon. It’s one small line on the inside back cover, never on the covers. Untick it and you pay the full £X.

Zine House is a small studio run by two photographers. The print-ready PDF pays for testing printers, ordering proofs and writing the guides, so the studio is still here when you reprint. Designing and printing at home stay free.

Yes, the same file, as often as you need, at no extra cost. Use the same browser, or open a project file you’ve saved.

Yes, for 30 days. A printed copy often shows something the screen didn’t, so you can edit the zine and export it again as often as you need, at no extra cost, for 30 days after paying. After that, changes make it a new zine, at the full price.

See the refund policy.

Any printer that accepts a PDF with 3 mm bleed. The printing guide explains what to check before you send it.

Open your zine in the studio and choose “Share to the Shelf”. It’s also on the download screen after you pay. Pick the spreads you’d like to show and add a few details. You can edit the words and links later from Your zines.