Photo Collage Template

Pick a layout, drop in your photos and get a clean, evenly spaced collage in seconds. This collage maker works entirely in your browser: choose from grid and feature layouts, drag each photo to frame it, zoom in on the best part, adjust the gaps and colours, and download a full-resolution image sized for social media or printing.

How to make a collage

1. Click “Add photos” and select several pictures at once. They fill the cells in order.
2. Choose a layout — grids for equal photos, feature layouts to make one photo the star.
3. Pick the output size for where the collage will be used.
4. Click a photo to select it, drag it to frame the subject, and zoom in if needed.
5. Adjust spacing, rounded corners and the background colour.
6. Download a PNG (sharpest, larger file) or JPEG (smaller file, ideal for sharing).

Sizes for social media and printing

Platforms change their recommended sizes from time to time, but these shapes are widely used. For prints, 300 pixels per inch gives sharp results at normal viewing distance.

Choosing a layout

• 2 side by side — before and after, then and now.
• 1 large + 2 or 3 — a hero shot with supporting details, such as a room and its close-ups.
• 2 × 2 and 3 × 3 grids — events, trips and product ranges.
• Strip — a photo-booth look, perfect for stories.
• 3 columns — tall portraits side by side.

Getting a good-looking collage

• Use photos with similar light and colour, or convert them all to black and white first.
• Leave consistent spacing; white or a colour from the photos both work well.
• Keep faces away from the edges of cells, where they can be cropped.
• Use rounded corners sparingly — small radii look modern, large ones playful.
• Check the collage at phone size before posting; detailed photos can get lost in small cells.

Worked example

For a 2 × 2 grid on a 1080 × 1080 square with 20 px spacing, each cell is (1080 − 3 × 20) ÷ 2 = 510 pixels square. A 4000 × 3000 phone photo is scaled so its shorter side fills 510 pixels, and the extra width is cropped — drag it to choose which part stays. For the A4 print size, the same layout gives cells about 1,170 × 1,690 pixels, so use your best-quality originals.

Photo quality and resolution

A collage can only be as sharp as the photos in it. When a photo is zoomed in or placed in a large cell of a print-size collage, its original pixels are stretched; phone photos of 12 megapixels or more hold up well, but small images saved from messaging apps may look soft. Download PNG for the best quality, then share a JPEG if a site limits file size.

Collage ideas

• Travel — one landscape as the large photo with food, people and details around it.
• Before and after — a room makeover, a haircut, a garden through the seasons.
• Product range — the same background and lighting for every item in a 3 × 3 grid.
• Year in review — twelve months as a 3 × 3 grid plus a strip, or one photo per month over several collages.
• Recipes — ingredients, steps and the finished dish in a strip for stories.
• Family gifts — print an A4 collage and frame it.

Spacing, borders and colour

Spacing does a lot of the design work. Thin gaps of 5–10 pixels feel modern and let photos read as one image; wider gaps of 30–60 pixels give each photo its own frame, like a gallery wall. White and off-white backgrounds suit most photos; black makes colours pop; a colour sampled from one of the pictures ties the collage together. Rounded corners soften the look and suit playful subjects, while square corners feel cleaner and more editorial.

Printing your collage

For a photo lab print, choose the 6 × 4 in or A4 size, download a JPEG at high quality or a PNG, and upload it to the lab at the matching print size so nothing is cropped. At home, print on photo paper with your printer set to “best” quality and borderless if it supports it. If the print looks darker than the screen, brighten your photos slightly before making the collage — screens are backlit, paper is not.

Privacy

Your photos are opened and combined in your browser only. They are not uploaded, stored or seen by anyone else; the finished collage is saved straight to your device.

Templates pack

The optional pack contains printable collage and scrapbook page templates for A4 and US Letter with photo frames and caption lines, a photo shot list for events, and a photo organiser spreadsheet. The collage maker above is free.

AI-assisted content

This page was drafted with AI assistance and reviewed by Kedop.