Collage maker

How it works

A collage puts several pictures into one image, which is what you need when somewhere will only take one: a listing, a post, a printed card, a message. The fiddly parts are making everything fit without distortion and getting the canvas the right shape for its destination.

Layouts

The automatic grid arranges everything into roughly a square and fits any number. Fixed grids give you an exact arrangement. The feature layout puts one large picture beside a column of smaller ones, which suits a main shot with supporting details — a property listing, a product with close-ups. Strips are a single row or column, right for before-and-after and for step sequences.

Nothing is stretched

Each picture fills its place and the overflow is cropped, rather than being squashed to fit. That keeps faces and proportions correct, at the cost of trimming the edges — which is almost always the better trade. Centre your subjects before you start if the edges matter.

Canvas shape

Square suits a feed post. Portrait 4:5 takes up more space while scrolling. Story 9:16 fills a phone screen. Wide 16:9 suits a slide or a header. Pick the destination and the collage comes out the right shape without cropping afterwards.

Gaps and corners

A small gap separates the pictures and reads as deliberate; no gap reads as a single image. Rounded corners soften the grid, which suits informal collages more than product ones.