holiday card template

It's that time of year when everyone starts sending out holiday cards with photos of the family and an update on what they have been up to this year. Since MagCloud has such a high quality photo output, this year why not combine your photos and letter into one 4-page MagCloud magazine. And right now, with the MagCloud holiday sale, each 4-page magazine will only cost $0.60 to print ($0.15/page).

I've put together templates for Adobe InDesign CS4 and Microsoft Word that include space for a letter and a full page spread of photos, in a layout that can be folded in half and sent as a 5.5" x 4.25" card (see diagram below). There are previews on MagCloud of both the Indesign version and the Word version.

Click here to download the Word template (.doc)
Click here to download the InDesign template (.indd)
Click here to download the jpeg files for both the blue & red present images (.zip)

getting started

To get started designing with MagCloud, you have to set up the document. There are details on how to do this both on the site as well as in the MagCloud Publisher Guide. If you're new to the site and looking to order a magazine to try it out, the Publisher Guide would be a good one to get, as it will guide you through the publication process and also show you the quality of the four-color digital printing that is available through MagCloud.

If you'd rather not set up your document yourself, you can download one of the following templates. With the InDesign and Quark files, the bleeds are set up (0.125" on the top and bottom, 0.25" on the outside edges, and a trim size of 8.25" x 10.75"). The other programs don't allow you to set up bleeds, but you can get around this by setting mirrored margins on a 8.5"x11" page, as I've done for you in these templates. Just be sure to keep in mind that anything within these margins will be cut off when the magazine is trimmed.

Click Here to download for Adobe Indesign CS3 (.indd)
Click Here to download for Adobe InDesign CS2 or CS (.inx)
Click Here to download for QuarkXPress 7
Click Here to download for Microsoft Word 2007 (.docx)
Click Here to download for older versions of Word (.doc - coming soon)
Click Here to download for Apple Pages
Click Here to download for Scribus 1.3.5
Click Here to download for Scribus 1.3.3.12