How to make a photo collage
- Drop 2–30 photos onto the tool, or click to pick them. Portrait, landscape, and square shots can be mixed freely.
- Choose a flow. Rows lines photos up in justified rows of equal height, like a gallery wall. Columns stacks them in masonry columns of equal width, like Pinterest.
- Fine-tune. Drag thumbnails to reorder, hit Shuffle for a new arrangement, or Sort by color to run the collage from warm to cool tones.
- Pick a frame style (Clean, Polaroid, or Gallery) or set the gap, outer padding, corner radius, and background yourself.
- Export as PNG or JPG at 1080, 2160, or 4096 px wide.
Why nothing gets cropped
Most collage makers start from a template — a fixed set of boxes — and crop every photo to fit its box. That's how heads get cut off and horizons go missing.
This tool works the other way around: it starts from the photos. In Rows mode it adds photos to a row until their combined width, at your target row height, fills the canvas. It then scales that row so its edges land exactly on the margins. Because every photo in a row shares one height and keeps its own aspect ratio, the only thing that changes is size. Every pixel of every photo stays in frame.
The trade-off is that the collage height follows the photos. If you need an exact canvas size, such as a 1080×1350 Instagram post, export the collage and then place it with the Moodboard Maker, which has fixed board shapes.
Rows or columns?
| Rows (justified) | Columns (masonry) | |
|---|---|---|
| Best for | Mixed landscape shots, travel sets, event recaps | Mostly portrait photos, product shots, mood references |
| What stays equal | Height within each row | Width of every column |
| Reading direction | Left to right, like text | Top to bottom, shortest column first |
| Control | Row height slider: taller rows mean fewer photos per row | Columns slider: 2–6 columns |
Which export width to choose
| Width | Use it for |
|---|---|
| 1080 px | Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp — they resize anything larger to about this width anyway |
| 2160 px | Websites, blogs, presentations, and retina screens |
| 4096 px | Printing. At 300 dpi that's a 13.6-inch (34.7 cm) wide print; at 200 dpi, about 20 inches |
Choose PNG to keep sharp edges and exact colors. Choose JPG when file size matters: a 4096 px collage is often 5–10× smaller as a JPG, with no visible difference for photos.