The short answer
Drop two or more photos on the collage maker below. Choose a Layout: Grid for several pictures, Side by side for comparisons, Stacked for a vertical strip. Pick the Size that matches where the collage will go, adjust Spacing, Rounded corners and Background, then press Make collage and download the result as JPG or PNG.
Each photo is scaled to fill its cell completely and cropped from the center, so there are never empty bars. In a grid, if the last row has fewer photos, they stretch to the full width instead of leaving a hole.
Try it here: Collage Maker
Open the full tool pageChoosing a layout
The layout decides how big each photo can be, and that matters more than any decoration. A grid divides the space evenly and works best when all photos are equally important: a trip, a product range, a team. Side by side places photos in one row, the classic format for before and after pictures or two options to compare. Stacked puts them in one column, which suits tall formats such as stories.
In the grid the tool chooses the number of columns from the number of photos and the shape of the canvas. On a square post it arranges them like this:
| Photos | Grid on a square post | Cell shape |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 2 side by side | Tall, about 1 by 2 |
| 3 | 2 on top, 1 full width below | Mixed, the last photo is wide |
| 4 | 2 by 2 | Square |
| 5 | 3 on top, 2 below | Tall above, square below |
| 6 | 3 by 2 | Tall, about 2 by 3 |
| 9 | 3 by 3 | Square |
| 12 | 4 by 3 | Slightly tall |
The right size for posts, stories and print
The Size menu has five canvases. They are the common pixel sizes for social networks plus an A4 page at print resolution. Spacing and corners scale with the canvas, so a collage looks the same whether you make it for a phone or for paper.
- Square post, 1080 by 1080: works everywhere, from Instagram and Facebook to WhatsApp and marketplaces. Best for 4 or 9 photos.
- Portrait post, 1080 by 1350 (4:5): takes more space in the feed than a square. Profile grids may show posts cropped to a narrower shape, so keep faces away from the very top and bottom.
- Story, 1080 by 1920 (9:16): for stories, reels covers and status updates. Two or three stacked photos fit well. Leave room at the top and bottom, where the app places its buttons.
- Landscape, 1920 by 1080 (16:9): presentations, YouTube, desktop wallpapers and side by side comparisons.
- A4 print, 2480 by 3508: an A4 page at 300 DPI, sharp enough for a printer or a print shop. A 3 by 4 grid of 12 photos on A4 makes a nice photo sheet.
Picking photos that work together
A collage looks calm when the photos share something: similar light, similar colors or the same subject at different moments. Mixing a dark indoor shot with a bright beach photo is fine for a memory board, but for a product or a portfolio choose pictures taken in similar conditions.
Because every photo is cropped to fill its cell, think about the shape. Two portrait phone photos side by side on a square canvas lose little; two landscape photos side by side on a square canvas lose their left and right edges. For a before and after of two horizontal photos, choose Stacked on a square or Side by side on Landscape. Keep the subject near the center of each photo, since the crop is taken from the middle.
Order tells the story. Put the strongest picture first (top left), keep before on the left or on top, and drag the rows in the list or use the arrow buttons to rearrange. Sort by name is useful when your camera already numbered the files in the right order.
Spacing, borders and background
Spacing adds a gap between the photos and around the edges, filled with the Background color. A thin white gap (around 8 to 16 on the slider) gives a clean, magazine look. No gap makes the collage read as one picture, good for panoramas or a seamless grid. A wide gap with a colored background frames the photos like a poster.
Rounded corners soften the cells; small values look modern, large values work for playful, sticker like layouts. Choose a background that appears in the photos (a sand tone for beach photos, the brand color for products) or neutral white, off white or black. Rounded corners together with zero spacing rarely look good, because the corners leave small background triangles between photos.
JPG or PNG, and common problems
Choose JPG for photos you will post or send: the file is much smaller and every network converts uploads to JPG anyway. Choose PNG only for collages of screenshots, graphics or text, or when you will edit the collage further, because PNG keeps every pixel exactly but can be several times larger.
- Heads are cut off: the photo was cropped from the center. Use a layout where the cell shape matches the photo (Stacked for landscape photos, Side by side for portrait photos) or crop the photo yourself first.
- The collage looks blurry on Instagram: the app compresses images. Upload the 1080 pixel JPG directly instead of a screenshot of it.
- The print looks soft: use the A4 print size and photos of at least about 1000 pixels on the short side for a 12 photo sheet.
- An iPhone photo will not open on an older computer: HEIC files are supported here, but if a browser cannot read them, convert them to JPG first.