what is this?

pasteup.party is a digital collage tool that pulls magazine spreads from the Internet Archive. Pick a magazine, flip through it, clip out the parts you want, arrange them on the page.

Magazines are user-curated — they're the favorites of one IA user, intersected with the magazine_rack collection. The selection shifts over time as that user's favorites change.

collage

drag a piece to move · top dot rotates · corner dot resizes

shift while rotating to snap to 15°

shift-click to add a piece to the selection · shift-drag on empty canvas to lasso a group · ⌘G group · ⌘⇧G ungroup

⌘D duplicate · ⌫ delete · ⌘Z undo delete · esc deselect

💾 Export… opens a render dialog (background · format · scale) · enter renders, esc cancels · your last choices stick across sessions

✂ cut — click the scissors on a selected piece, then draw a line across to slice or a closed loop to cut out a shape

↺ restores a cut piece back to the full original image

navigate

drag empty space to pan around the canvas and margins

the page stays a fixed size — clippings live in the margins on either side

m toggle the magazine rack drawer · 🎲 in the rack reshuffles, excluding magazines you've already opened

🖼 Gallery is the public wall — share your collage onto it from 💾 Export… (signing it is optional)

magazine reader

the whole spread is a cutting surface — flip pages with ←/→ or the ‹ › buttons if you just want to browse

click for straight edges · drag for freehand curves · click the start dot or press enter to finish

⌫ undo last segment · esc cancel