Photo Collage Maker for Posts, Stories and Prints

Add your photos to the box above and a collage appears straight away. This photo collage maker starts with Auto, a mosaic that keeps every photo close to its own shape, and it also offers 38 ready-made grid layouts for 1 to 25 photos. Pick a size, set the spacing, add a frame or a line of text, and download the finished picture.

Everything happens in your browser. Your photos are not sent anywhere, there is no account to create and the download carries no watermark. The settings sit in cards next to the preview, and the preview shows exactly what you will get, because the download is drawn the same way at full size.

A collage is one picture made of several photos placed side by side. Here each photo sits in a cell of a layout: a rectangle with its own place in the picture. The photo always fills its cell completely, so a little of it may be trimmed at the edges, and you decide which part shows by dragging it.

This is a layout-based tool, not a free-form scrapbook editor. Cells stay straight rectangles in a tidy arrangement: you cannot tilt a cell at an angle, drag a cell to a new size by hand or scatter photos loosely over the page. There are no stickers, clip art or ready-made themed templates either. What you get instead is a clean result in a few clicks, with spacing that stays even and a collage that matches the exact pixel size a platform or a print shop expects.

Inside those limits there is plenty of control. Every photo can be moved, zoomed, turned in steps of 90 degrees, mirrored, swapped with its neighbour or replaced. The whole collage can have spacing, an outer border, rounded corners, a coloured, gradient or blurred background, one of three frame styles, a filter and as many text layers as you like.

Think of it as a photo collage maker free from catches, from the first photo to the last download. There is no watermark stamped in a corner, no lower resolution for free use and no limit on how many collages you make in a day. Make one, start over, make another.

There is also no sign-up. You do not give an email address, create a password or install an app. The page loads, you add photos, and the result is saved to your own downloads folder.

Your choices are remembered in this browser: layout, size, spacing, colours, frame, filter, download format and quality. The next time you open the page, the look you used last is ready again, and only the photos and text need adding. Photos and text are never stored; close the tab and they are gone from the page.

To use a photo collage maker online free of charge, all you need is a modern browser on a computer, tablet or phone. There is nothing to download and no plug-in to allow. The page works in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari.

Many online tools upload your photos to a server and build the collage there. This one does not. After the page has loaded, your own device decodes the photos, draws the collage on a canvas and encodes the file. That keeps private photos private, and it saves the time an upload of many large camera photos would take.

Because the work runs on your device, a fast computer builds a large collage quickly, while an older phone may need a few seconds for a 4K wallpaper or an 11 × 14 in poster. The preview is drawn at screen size, so it stays quick while you change settings; the full-size picture is only made when you press the download button.

Auto is the first button in the Layout card and the default. It arranges the photos in justified rows, like the mosaic in a photo album: each row runs the full width of the collage, and the number of rows is chosen so the rows fill the height as evenly as possible. Wide photos get wide cells and tall photos get tall cells, so very little of each photo is trimmed. Auto works with any number of photos up to the limit of 40.

The other buttons are grid layouts drawn as small icons. Below them, the link All 38 layouts switches between showing every layout and showing only the layouts that have one cell for each photo you added. With more than nine photos, the layouts for nine or more photos are shown. The layouts include equal columns and rows, one large photo with smaller ones beside or below it, split rows with two photos on top and three below, a centre photo over a 2 × 2 grid, and plain grids from 2 × 2 to 5 × 5.

A layout does not have to match the number of photos. If it has more cells than photos, the extra cells show + photo and a number; click one to add a photo straight into it. If it has fewer cells, the first photos fill them and the rest wait in the thumbnail row, shown a little faded, ready to be put in a cell.

When you change layout, every photo stays in the cell with the same number, and new cells take the next unused photo. So you can try several layouts in a row without losing the order you have set. Shuffle mixes the photos across the cells at random, which is a quick way to try new combinations; with Auto, it also changes the mosaic, because the rows follow the order of the photos.

Auto and the grid layouts suit different jobs. Auto is the quick choice when your photos have mixed shapes, such as a few landscape shots and a few portraits from a phone. Each photo gets a cell close to its own shape, so faces and horizons are rarely cut, and you hardly need to drag anything. The rows can differ in height, which gives the relaxed look of a photo-album page.

A grid layout is the better pick when you want a strict, even pattern, or when one photo should stand out. In a 3 × 3 or 4 × 4 grid every cell has the same size, which looks tidy for product photos, a year of monthly photos or a team. Layouts with one large cell let you lead with a single strong photo, such as a group photo, a couple or a view, and support it with smaller details around it.

A quick rule: for two or three photos, try columns on a wide size and rows on a tall size, so each cell keeps a reasonable shape. For four to six photos, one large cell plus small ones often looks more lively than an even grid. From nine photos up, an even grid or Auto keeps the collage calm. When in doubt, click through a few layouts; the photos keep their cells, so trying costs nothing.

The Size card holds every size in one list, in three groups: Social media, Print (300 DPI) and Wallpaper, plus Custom size at the end. Each entry shows its size in pixels, so you know exactly what you will get. The line at the bottom of the Download as card repeats the size, and for print sizes it also shows the DPI and the print size in inches.

Choosing a size changes the shape of the collage, and the layout adapts. A 2 × 2 grid on a square is four squares; on a story it is four tall rectangles. Auto rebuilds its rows for the new shape too. Because the photos always fill their cells, they are trimmed to the new cell shapes, so check the preview after a size change and drag photos back into place where needed.

Custom size accepts any width and height from 200 to 10,000 pixels. Use it for a blog header, a slide, a digital photo frame or a screen with an unusual resolution. Custom sizes are saved with 300 DPI in JPG and PNG files, which matters only if you print them.

Three of the sizes are made for Instagram. Instagram post 1:1 is the classic square. Instagram portrait 4:5 is the tallest shape the feed shows in full, and it takes up more of the screen as people scroll. The story size, 9:16, is covered in the next section. All three are 1080 pixels wide, the width the app displays.

When you use this photo collage maker for Instagram, keep the number of photos modest for a feed post: two to six photos read well on a phone, while a 5 × 5 grid turns into tiny thumbnails. Leave a little spacing so the photos do not run into each other, and keep faces away from the very edges of cells, where they are trimmed first.

Save as JPG for Instagram. The app compresses every upload again anyway, and a JPG at the default quality of 92% keeps the file small and the detail sharp. PNG adds file size without a visible gain once the app has compressed it.

A collage also makes a good first slide of a carousel post: one picture that sums up a trip or an event, followed by the single photos. Use Instagram portrait 4:5 for the collage and the slides alike, so the whole carousel has the same shape.

Stories fill a phone screen, so they need a tall 9:16 picture. Choose Instagram / WhatsApp story 9:16 and you get 1080 × 1920 pixels, which suits Instagram stories, WhatsApp status and other full-screen story formats. A tall size suits layouts with rows: three rows, four rows, or one large photo on top with smaller ones below.

Using this collage maker for Instagram story posts, leave some room at the top and bottom. The app places your profile name at the top and the reply bar at the bottom, and both cover part of the picture. A wider outer border, or a layout whose top and bottom cells hold calm parts of the photos, keeps the important parts clear. Text works well here too: a short title in the middle third stays visible.

On a phone, save the collage and add it from your gallery when you create the story. If the app zooms in on it, the picture is not 9:16; check that the story size is chosen in the Size card.

Facebook post is a 1200 × 1200 square for posts in the news feed and in groups. Facebook cover is a wide 1640 × 624 banner; choose a layout with columns, such as three or four columns side by side, because a grid with rows becomes very flat at this shape. Keep the left part calm on a profile cover, where the profile picture sits on top of the banner on many screens.

Pinterest pin 2:3 gives 1000 × 1500 pixels, the tall shape that pins show in full. YouTube thumbnail 16:9 gives 1280 × 720 pixels; a collage of two or three photos with a large bold title works well at the small size people see in a list. X / Twitter post 16:9 gives 1600 × 900 pixels for a wide post image. For any other platform, use Custom size with the pixel size it asks for.

Six sizes are made for paper, in the group Print (300 DPI): 4 × 6 in, 5 × 7 in, 8 × 10 in, A4, Letter 8.5 × 11 in and an 11 × 14 in poster. Each one has the pixel count for 300 dots per inch, the usual standard for sharp photo prints. A 4 × 6 in print, for example, is 1200 × 1800 pixels.

When you use this photo collage maker to print, the print resolution is written into the file. JPG and PNG downloads carry 300 DPI, so print software, photo kiosks and online print shops read the right size straight away. The PDF option goes one step further: the page of the PDF has the exact paper size, so an A4 collage opens as an A4 page.

All print sizes are portrait. For a landscape print, such as a 6 × 4 in, choose Custom size and type the pixels the other way round: 1800 × 1200 for 6 × 4 in, 2100 × 1500 for 7 × 5 in, 3508 × 2480 for A4 landscape. Custom sizes are also saved at 300 DPI.

Sharpness on paper depends on the photos as well as the collage size. Photos are kept at up to 4000 pixels on their long side, which is plenty for any cell of an A4 collage. A small photo saved from a chat app, stretched over half an A4 page, will look soft however carefully it is printed; use the original photo from your camera or phone where you can.

For a home printer, choose PDF (print) under Download as. Open the PDF and print it at 100%, which some print windows call Actual size. Fit to page or Shrink to fit would scale the collage down a little and leave a white edge.

Most home printers cannot print right to the edge of the sheet and leave a few millimetres blank. If that blank edge bothers you, set Outer border to around 20 to 30, so the collage has a margin of its own, or trim the print. A photo lab or kiosk usually prints edge to edge; send it the JPG.

Paper matters as much as pixels. Photo paper gives deeper colours than plain office paper, and matte paper shows fewer reflections behind glass. Print one copy and look at it before printing a stack for invitations or a class.

Three sizes are made for screens, in the group Wallpaper: Desktop wallpaper 1920 × 1080 for Full HD monitors and laptops, 4K wallpaper 3840 × 2160 for 4K monitors and TVs, and Phone wallpaper 1170 × 2532 for a tall phone screen. Each fills the screen without stretching.

A photo collage maker for wallpaper has to deal with what sits on top of the picture. On a computer, desktop icons usually line up on the left, and a taskbar or dock runs along an edge. On a phone, the clock covers the top of the lock screen and app icons cover most of the home screen. Put the photos you want to see in cells that stay clear, or use a wider outer border.

For a phone with another resolution, look up its screen size in pixels and enter it under Custom size. A wallpaper slightly larger than the screen is fine, because phones scale it down; one that is smaller looks soft. Save wallpapers as JPG at high quality or as PNG.

The Spacing and corners card has three sliders. Between photos sets the gap between neighbouring cells, from 0 to 60. Outer border sets the margin around the whole collage, from 0 to 80. Rounded corners rounds the corners of every photo, from 0 for sharp corners to 120 for soft, pill-like shapes.

The numbers are thousandths of the shorter side of the collage. On an Instagram post of 1080 pixels, the default spacing of 12 is about 13 pixels; on an A4 print, the same 12 is about 30 pixels, which looks the same on paper. That is why the preview and the download always match, and why a design keeps its look when you switch size.

The gap and the border show the background behind the photos, so they take the colour, gradient or blur you set in the Background card. A thin white gap looks clean and modern; a wide coloured border gives a framed, poster-like look; rounded corners with a soft background suit a friendly, playful collage.

Sometimes you want the photos to touch, with no line between them at all. This photo collage maker without borders takes one click: the No borders button under the sliders sets spacing, outer border and rounded corners to 0 and turns the frame off. The photos then run edge to edge and meet in straight seams.

A collage with no gaps looks like one continuous picture, which suits a wallpaper, a cover banner or a set of similar photos such as a series of landscapes. Because the photos fill their cells completely, there is no background showing anywhere, so the background setting makes no difference. To bring a thin line back, move the Between photos slider up a step or two.

The Background card offers three choices. Colour fills the background with one colour: pick one of ten swatches, from white and black to soft cream, pink, blue and green, or open the colour picker for any colour you like.

Gradient blends two colours diagonally, from the top-left corner to the bottom-right corner. The first colour comes from the swatches or the first picker, and a second picker appears for the other colour. A gentle gradient between two light shades looks good behind white-framed photos; a darker gradient gives a more dramatic feel.

Blurred photo uses the first photo in the collage, enlarged, softly blurred and slightly darkened, as the background. It fills the gaps and the border with the colours of your own photos, so the collage looks unified without you choosing a colour. Put the photo whose colours you want in cell 1, or try Shuffle.

The Frame and filter card offers four frame styles for every photo. None shows the photos as they are. Shadow places a soft drop shadow under each photo, so the photos seem to lift off the background; it shows best with some spacing and a light background.

If you want a photo collage maker with frame styles that look like real prints, choose Polaroid. Each photo gets a card around it with a wider strip at the bottom, the classic instant-photo look, plus a light shadow. Outline draws a line around each photo instead, a clean, graphic look that works with or without gaps.

Polaroid and Outline use Frame colour, which appears once you choose them. White is the default and the classic choice for Polaroid; black or a dark colour suits Outline on a light background. The frame takes some room inside each cell, so a little more of each photo is trimmed; drag the photos to adjust.

One filter applies to every photo in the collage at once, which gives the whole picture a matching look even when the photos come from different phones or different times of day. The background colour, the frames and the text are not changed.

The filters are deliberately simple: one click, no sliders. If a single photo needs a stronger fix, such as a much brighter exposure, correct it in your photo app first and then add it here.

The Text card turns this into a photo collage maker with text. Press Add text and a new text layer appears near the bottom of the collage, reading Your text, in bold white with a shadow. Type your own words in the box; press Enter for a second line. You can add as many text layers as you like, and each one appears as a button you click to edit it.

Each text layer has its own settings. Font offers Arial, Georgia, Impact, Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Times New Roman, Courier New, Comic Sans MS, Brush Script MT and Segoe UI. These are fonts that come with most computers; if a phone lacks one, the browser shows a similar font in its place. Next to the font sit the text colour, Bold, Italic, Shadow and Box, which puts a solid block of colour behind the text, with its own box colour. The Size slider makes the text larger or smaller.

To move text, drag it in the preview. While a text layer is selected it has a dashed outline, so you can see what you are moving. Delete removes the selected layer. Text is drawn on top of everything else, so it can sit over a photo, over the border or across two photos.

Short text reads best: a name, a date, a place, a few words of greeting. White text with Shadow stays readable over most photos; for a busy photo, switch on Box with a dark or semi-dark colour. A thicker font such as Impact or Arial in bold holds up well at small sizes, such as on a thumbnail.

Click a photo in the preview to select it. A dashed blue outline marks it, and a bar appears under the preview with the controls for that photo, starting with its number, such as Photo 3.

Drag the selected photo to move it inside its cell, so you can choose which part shows. Zoom it with the Zoom slider or with the scroll wheel while the pointer is over the preview, up to five times. A photo always fills its cell, so at the normal zoom it can only move in the direction where it is larger than the cell; zoom in and you can move it every way.

The turn button turns the photo 90 degrees each time you press it, useful for a photo that was taken sideways. Mirror flips it left to right. The two arrow buttons swap the photo, with its zoom and position, with the photo in the previous or the next cell. Replace lets you choose a new file for that cell, Reset clears its zoom, position, turn and mirror, and the cross closes the bar.

Under the preview, a row of thumbnails shows every photo you added. With a cell selected, click a thumbnail to put that photo into it; if the photo was already in another cell, the two swap places. Without a selection, a thumbnail fills the first empty cell. The plus button adds more photos, the small cross on a thumbnail removes that photo, and Start over clears everything.

Photos fill their cells like a picture in a frame that is a little too small, so what is trimmed depends on the shape of the cell and the shape of the photo. A tall portrait in a wide cell loses some of its top and bottom; a wide landscape in a tall cell loses its sides. The closer the shapes, the less is trimmed.

So match photos to cells where you can. Put portrait photos in the tall cells of a layout and landscape photos in the wide ones, using the thumbnails or the swap buttons. If a photo still loses too much, zoom it out to the normal size with Reset and drag it so the subject sits in the middle, or switch to Auto for that collage.

Spacing, borders and frames also change the cell shape slightly, because they take room inside the collage. A thick Polaroid frame makes each photo area smaller and a little squarer. After a big change in these settings, run your eye over each cell once more.

The Download as card offers four formats. JPG suits sharing and most prints: small files, full colour. PNG is lossless, with larger files, useful when you want no compression at all. WebP gives files smaller than JPG at the same look, for websites. PDF (print) puts the collage on a page of the right size for printing.

For JPG and WebP a Quality slider runs from 60% to 100%, with 92% as the default. Above about 90% the difference is hard to see; lower values make smaller files, useful for email. PNG has no quality setting, because it keeps every pixel exactly.

For print sizes, 300 DPI is written into JPG and PNG files, and the PDF page gets the exact paper size. For social media and wallpaper sizes the pixel size is what counts, and the PDF page is sized at 150 DPI. The file is named after the size, such as photo-collage-1080x1080.jpg, and a green line under the button confirms the name and the file size once it is saved.

You can add JPG, PNG, WebP and HEIC photos, as well as GIF, BMP and AVIF. HEIC, the format many iPhones use, opens even in browsers that cannot show it on their own; a small decoder loads for it when needed. Photos taken sideways are turned the right way up using the orientation stored in the file. An animated GIF uses its first frame.

One collage holds up to 40 photos, from a single photo with a frame and text to a large mosaic. Very large photos are reduced to 4000 pixels on their long side when they are added, which keeps the page light on memory and is still more than any cell needs, even on an 11 × 14 in poster. Add photos in several rounds if you like: tap the plus button, drop more files on the preview or paste from the clipboard.

The page works on phones and tablets too, in Safari on iPhone and iPad and in Chrome on Android. Tap Select photos to choose them from your gallery; HEIC photos from an iPhone work as they are. On a narrow screen the settings cards appear under the preview, and a download bar stays within reach at the bottom.

On a touch screen, tap a photo to select it and drag it with one finger to move it; use the Zoom slider to zoom, since there is no scroll wheel. The finished collage goes to the Files app on iPhone or the Downloads folder on Android, from where you can save it to your photos or share it to an app.

Your photos stay on your device. The browser reads them, draws the collage on a canvas in memory and saves the result straight to your downloads. Nothing is sent to FlipMyFormat or anyone else, and nothing is kept on a server, so there is nothing to delete afterwards.

The finished file is a new picture, so it does not carry the hidden details stored in camera photos, such as the location where they were taken or the camera model. That is a small extra plus for privacy when you post a collage.

To set the right expectations, here is what this tool does not do. Cells are always straight rectangles in a fixed arrangement, so you cannot tilt photos at an angle, resize a single cell by dragging its edge, or place photos freely like a scrapbook. There are no stickers, emoji packs or themed templates, and no heart, circle or star-shaped layouts.

There is also no saving of a project to edit later: once you close the tab, the photos and text are gone, although your settings stay. If you think you will want changes, keep the page open until you are happy, or simply build the collage again; with Auto and your remembered settings that takes a minute. For a single round photo, Circle Crop is the better tool, and to place pictures plainly in a row or a column, Merge Images.

Start with the photos, not the layout. Choose fewer, stronger photos rather than every shot from the day; a collage of five clear photos says more than one of twenty tiny ones. Put the most important photo in the largest cell, which is cell 1 in most layouts with a large cell.

Keep the look consistent. One filter, one background colour and one frame style across the collage look calm and planned. If the photos come from different cameras, B&W or Fade hides the differences in colour.

Check the edges. After every change of layout or size, look at each cell for faces cut in half or heads cut off at the top, and drag the photo to fix it. Zooming in a little gives more room to move.

Before you post or print, look at the collage at its real size. A detail that looks fine in the preview may be too small on a phone screen, and text that looks large may still be small on a thumbnail. To make the file smaller for email afterwards, use Compress Image.