Lesson 1 · How it works
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Photograph
The phone is the camera. Snap the art as it comes home, drop the photos into Crayon Press — the drop folder and one button do the filing chores.
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File it
Folders per artist, crops and rotations that never touch the original, a gold star on the keepers. The originals are archived untouched.
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Bind it
Captioned spreads or contact sheets, composed into a print-ready PDF at 300 DPI — take it to any photo-book printer, or your own.
Lesson 2 · The arithmetic
| One book from an art-book service (~25 pieces) | $75 |
| Storing the art in an app, per year | $33/yr |
| Crayon Press — every book you'll ever make | $24.99 once |
Show your work: printing a hardcover from your own PDF runs about $45. Book one pays for the press. ★
Lesson 3 · What stays yours
- ★ The art never leaves your machine — no uploads, no account, no cloud, no telemetry. The app doesn't even ask for the internet.
- ★ Originals are kept untouched in your Documents folder, named and archived — edits and books are made from copies.
- ★ One price, no subscription, unlimited books, unlimited artists — the second kid is free.