Photo Collage Maker
Put two to nine photos together as one picture — side by side, in strips, in a grid, or around one hero image in the L layout. Click a cell to add a photo, drag it to reframe, set your gap and corners, and download the finished collage at full size. Everything happens on your device: nothing is uploaded, ever.
Click an empty cell to add a photo. Click a filled photo to select it, then drag it inside its cell to reframe it — or drop photo files anywhere on the collage to fill the empty cells in order. Switching layout keeps your photos: any that do not fit the new layout wait, unharmed, until you switch back.
What photographers use collages for
A single photo has to carry a whole moment on its own. A collage lets a set of photos share the work. The most common use is the story set: the wide shot that sets the scene, the mid shot that shows what happened, and the close-up detail that a single frame would have had to choose between — together they read as one small narrative, which is why wedding and travel photographers build them for album spreads and blog posts. Moodboards are the planning cousin: before a shoot, gathering reference frames, colour swatches shot as photos, and wardrobe or location snaps into one grid shows in a glance whether the pieces belong together. For working photographers there is also the practical job of client previews — a tidy grid of selects is far easier for a client to react to than nine separate attachments — and the before/after series, where two, three or four stages of an edit, a restoration or a day's changing light sit in a row and the progression itself becomes the picture. In every case the collage is doing the same thing: holding photos still, side by side, so they can be compared and read as a group.
How to choose a layout — and make it look deliberate
Start from the strongest photo, not from the layout menu. If one frame clearly leads, give it the room: the L shape exists for exactly this — its big cell takes two-thirds of the frame while two smaller supporting shots stack beside it. If the photos are equals, a plain grid (2×2, 2×3 or 3×3) treats them equally and reads calmly; strips suit sequences and panoramas cut into chapters. Whatever you pick, keep the gap consistent — it is set once for the whole collage here, and a single even gap is most of what separates a designed grid from photos that happen to be near each other. A gap around 1% with square or lightly rounded corners looks clean and modern; wider gaps and a coloured background lean more scrapbook. Prepare the photos before you assemble them: if the set mixes odd sizes, standardise them first with the Image Resizer, and if the files are huge, shrink them with the Image Compressor so your browser handles them lightly — the collage only ever samples what each cell needs. One behaviour to expect: every photo is cover-fitted to its cell, meaning it is scaled to fill the cell completely and the overflow is cropped away rather than leaving empty bars or stretching the picture. That is what keeps a mixed set looking uniform — and it means edges do get cropped, so after adding each photo, drag it inside its cell to choose which part shows, and use the zoom slider to pull back or push in until the framing is the one you meant.
Printing a collage
A collage that looks sharp on screen can still disappoint in print, because print cares about pixels per inch rather than pixels alone. The export here is as wide as you choose — 1600, 2400 or 3200 px — and each photo inside it only contributes the resolution it actually has, so a collage built from small phone exports will soften sooner than one built from full-size originals. As a working rule, a 3200 px export prints comfortably at about 10–11 inches wide at 300 DPI, or roughly twice that at the 150 DPI that still looks fine on a wall viewed from a normal distance. Before you send anything to a lab, run your exact numbers through the Print Size Calculator: enter the export's width in pixels and the physical size you want, and it will tell you honestly whether the result will hold up — and if it will not, the fix is usually a smaller print or a wider export, not a different collage.
Frequently asked questions
Are my photos uploaded to a server?
No. The collage is assembled in your browser using its built-in image engine, and your photos never leave your device. You can verify it: load this page, switch your device to airplane mode, and the tool still works.
Why are my photos cropped at the edges?
Because each photo is cover-fitted to its cell: it is scaled until the cell is completely filled, and whatever spills past the edges is cropped — the alternative would be empty bars or a stretched picture. The crop is yours to direct. Click the photo to select it, drag it to move the visible window across the frame, and use the zoom slider to show more of the scene (zoom out towards 1×) or less of it (zoom in for a tighter crop). The Centre button resets both if you want to start the framing again.
How big is the exported collage?
Exactly the width you choose — 1600, 2400 or 3200 px — with the height set by the layout's shape, so a square layout at 2400 px exports at 2400 × 2400 px and the side-by-side layout at 2400 × 1200 px. JPG exports are written at full quality (0.92) and PNG exports are lossless, so the file you download is the finished collage at full resolution, not a copy of the screen preview.
Can I use a collage on Instagram?
Yes — a collage is a single ordinary image once exported, so it posts like any other photo. The square grids (2×2 and 3×3) suit a standard square post, and the side-by-side and stacked pairs work well in stories and carousels. It is a different job from splitting one photo across your profile: for that, make the single picture first — a collage works beautifully as the source — then run it through the Instagram Grid Splitter, which slices it into tiles named in posting order.