CUTWORK · The print shop in your browser · and now it moves.
A free online design studio that treats every picture like paper · cut it with a blade, shred it, weave it, run it through a bad photocopier, print it a hair off register on purpose · then open the reel and set the whole sheet in motion.
Phone, tablet or desktop · nothing to install · play without an account, sign in when you export.It moves now
Open the reel and the sheet becomes a shot.
Give a piece a move and it starts moving · tap the sheet and the shot learns your count · a little weather leans on everything at once so the whole page breathes together · hand one move to every piece, a beat apart, and a poster becomes a cascade · let the plates take turns printing, frame by frame, like the riso room after hours. Faint ghosts show where a piece was and where it is going while you work, and the film leaves as a GIF loop ready for a feed.
The cascade · one move handed to three pieces, a beat apart. Drawn live by this page, the way the studio draws it.
The press
Hover a card and the press prints.
Print-room effects grouped the way a print room thinks · halftone and dot screens, riso, misprinted plates, off-register pulls, separations, photocopier decay, duotone, cyanotype, letterpress. Every effect previews live and the last one applied stays adjustable.
Set a line · the press is already warm
Type a word. Watch it print.
Type anything. Press a move on the rail and your line performs it, right here · inside the studio, the same moves run on whole sheets.
five of eighty-two moves · the real press does this to anything
The blade
Every picture is paper. Cut it.
The blade splits any layer in two along the line you drag · the pen draws freehand cutting paths · the lasso and smart select lift pieces out of photographs. Everything you remove waits in a scraps bin, nothing is ever lost, every cut is undoable.
Real type too · headlines that scale to a box, paragraphs in linked frames, type on a hand-drawn path · and paper that behaves like paper, from kraft with real fibres to butter paper that frosts what sits beneath it.
It teaches by performing
Press Watch · the studio builds it in front of you.
The studio performs its own lessons. Press a ✦ Watch row in Help and it builds the thing on the sheet in front of you · calm weather over a poster, a counted spread, the plates taking turns · narrating as it goes, and what it makes is yours to pick apart. The first time you meet the reel, the welcome plate introduces it by performing, once.
The mag
Publish a page · land in the issue.
CUTWORK MAG is the monthly magazine assembled from the open wall · publish a page from the studio, and if it’s chosen it appears in that month’s issue, credited to your @name. Remix-friendly pieces open in anyone’s studio, and remixes credit the original automatically.