Split Image into Pieces or Print Pages

Add a picture to the box above, choose how to cut it and press the button. The preview draws the cut lines and numbers every piece, so you see the result before anything is made. Each piece is cut from the full-size picture and comes back as a file of its own, ready to download one by one or all together in a ZIP.

Two modes sit at the top of the settings. Equal pieces cuts the picture into a grid of rows and columns: halves, carousel slides, a profile grid or any layout up to 20 × 20. Pages for printing spreads the picture over several sheets of A4, Letter or A3 paper in one PDF, so you can print a large poster on an ordinary home printer. Both modes run in your browser, and the picture never leaves your device.

Splitting a picture means cutting it into smaller rectangles that fit back together exactly. Nothing is resized or redrawn: each piece is simply a part of the original pixels, copied into a file of its own. Lay the pieces side by side in the right order and you have the original picture again.

People do this for many reasons. A wide panorama becomes a set of swipeable slides. A large photo becomes a mosaic of nine posts on a profile page. A scan of two book pages becomes two separate pages. A drawing is spread over several sheets of paper and printed as a poster. A sprite sheet is cut into frames of the same size for a game or an animation.

This page covers both the screen side and the paper side of that work. For the screen, you choose rows and columns and get picture files. For paper, you choose a sheet size and how many sheets wide the poster should be, and you get a PDF that any printer can handle.

To split image online free, all you need is a web browser on a computer, tablet or phone. There is no program to install, no account to create and no trial that ends after a few files. Open the page, add a picture, choose the layout and download the pieces.

Most online tools send your picture to a server, cut it there and send the pieces back. This one does not. The page loads once, and from then on your own device does the cutting with the drawing features built into every modern browser. That keeps private pictures private and saves the time an upload and a download would take, which matters with large camera photos and high-resolution scans.

There is no watermark on the pieces, no reduced size for free use and no daily limit. Cut one picture or fifty, then do it again with a different layout. Your settings are remembered in this browser, so the next time you open the page the layout, format and file naming you used last are already selected.

Two of the layouts cut a picture into two pieces. In half (left | right) makes one vertical cut down the middle and gives you a left and a right half. In half (top / bottom) makes one horizontal cut across the middle and gives you a top and a bottom half. Both halves always have the same size, give or take a single pixel when the width or height is an odd number.

The need to split image in half comes up all the time. A scanned book spread with two pages side by side becomes two separate pages. A wide screenshot of two windows becomes two screenshots. A before-and-after picture becomes a before picture and an after picture. A very tall phone screenshot becomes two shorter ones that are easier to read in a document or a slide.

If the two parts of your picture are not equally wide, for example a book scan where the spine sits off-centre, crop the picture first with Crop Image so the spine is in the middle, and then cut it here. Or split image in half straight away and trim each half afterwards.

Two layouts give three pieces. 3 strips cuts the picture into three equally wide vertical strips, each as tall as the picture. 3 for Instagram carousel also makes three pieces side by side, but first trims the picture to the portrait shape each slide needs; more on that in the next section.

When you split image into 3 strips, a wide landscape turns into a triptych: three panels that can be framed and hung side by side with a small gap between them, or printed as three cards. A long banner can become three parts for three slides of a presentation. A long scanned receipt or form can be divided into three readable parts.

For three horizontal bands instead of vertical strips, choose Custom and set 3 rows and 1 column. The same goes for any other number of parts: Custom lets you set rows and columns freely, and the preview updates as you type.

A carousel post on Instagram holds several slides, and a panorama cut into slides lets people swipe along the whole view. For that to work, every slide must have the same shape and the pieces must meet exactly at their edges, so the picture seems to continue as the viewer swipes.

The 3 for Instagram carousel layout does this in one step. It sets 1 row, 3 columns and the 4:5 piece shape, which is the tallest portrait shape a feed post shows without cropping. The picture is first trimmed evenly from the centre to the overall shape of three 4:5 slides side by side, which is 12:5, and then cut into three. The darker area in the preview shows what is trimmed away.

So to split image into 3 for Instagram, add a wide picture, choose this layout and press the button. Upload the three pieces as one carousel post in the order 1, 2, 3, which is also the order the file names sort in. If you would rather keep the full height of the picture, choose As the picture under Piece shape; the slides are then as tall as the picture, and the app may crop them when you post, because a carousel only accepts shapes between wide 1.91:1 and tall 4:5.

Want more than three slides? Choose Custom, set 1 row and 4, 5 or more columns, and pick 4:5 or Square as the piece shape. If you only want to fit a whole picture into a platform's size without cutting it, Social Media Resizer does that instead.

The 3 × 3 Instagram grid layout cuts a picture into nine 4:5 pieces in three rows and three columns. Posted one by one, they form one large picture across the top three rows of your profile.

Order matters here. A profile shows the newest post first, at the top left, so the piece that belongs at the bottom right of the big picture has to be posted first, and the top-left piece last. With this layout the file names follow that order on their own: post-1 is the bottom-right piece and post-9 is the top-left piece. Post them in number order and the grid lines up. The preview shows the same post numbers on every piece, so you can check before you download.

Profile grids now show tall 4:5 thumbnails rather than squares, which is why this layout uses 4:5 pieces. If you prefer the older square look, switch Piece shape to Square; the post order naming stays. For a grid of two or four rows, choose Custom with 3 columns and the number of rows you want, then pick Instagram post order under File names.

Keep in mind that every post you add later moves the whole grid along by one place. A single extra post in between shifts every piece and breaks the big picture, so publish all nine in one session, and add later posts in groups of three if you want the grid to stay intact.

The 4 equal parts layout cuts the picture once across and once down the middle, giving four quarters in two rows and two columns: top left, top right, bottom left and bottom right. Each quarter is half as wide and half as tall as the picture.

When you split image into 4 equal parts, a large photo becomes four pictures that each fit a phone screen, a detailed map becomes four sections that can be read up close, and a group photo becomes four close-ups. Teachers use it to make a simple four-piece puzzle, and designers use it to review the four quarters of a layout one at a time.

Four pieces in a row are just as easy. Choose Custom with 1 row and 4 columns for four vertical strips, or 4 rows and 1 column for four horizontal bands. Either way you split image into 4 pieces of the same size; only the direction of the cuts changes.

To print a picture over four sheets of paper as one larger picture, use Pages for printing with 2 pages across instead. A landscape photo on A4 then comes out as 2 × 2 sheets, with a margin, an overlap for gluing and cut marks, which a plain 2 × 2 cut does not have.

Custom accepts any grid from 1 × 1 up to 20 rows by 20 columns, so up to 400 pieces from one picture. Type the number of rows and columns, and the preview draws the grid and numbers the pieces from left to right, row by row.

To split image into equal parts, the width of the picture is divided by the number of columns and its height by the number of rows. When the size does not divide exactly, the pieces differ by one pixel at most, because a file cannot hold half a pixel. The line under the preview tells you how many pieces you will get and their size in pixels.

Equal grids are handy for much more than social media. A sprite sheet with frames of the same size can be cut into separate frames by entering its rows and columns. A scanned sheet of stickers, labels or photo booth prints can be cut into single items. A large chart can be cut into tiles for a series of slides, and a very large picture can be cut into tiles to send or print one part at a time.

If the parts you need are not the same size, cut them by hand with Crop Image instead, one rectangle at a time.

Piece shape decides whether the picture is trimmed before it is cut. As the picture uses the whole picture, so the shape of each piece follows from the picture and the grid: a 3:2 photo cut into 2 columns gives two pieces of 3:4.

Square and 4:5 make every piece exactly that shape. To do so, the picture is first trimmed evenly from the centre to the shape of the whole grid. For example, three square pieces side by side need a picture three times as wide as it is tall; anything wider is trimmed at the left and right, anything taller at the top and bottom. The preview darkens the part that will be trimmed, so you can see what goes.

If the centre is not the part you want to keep, crop the picture first with Crop Image to the shape of the whole grid, placing the subject where you like, and then cut it here with As the picture. For a carousel of three 4:5 slides that shape is 12:5. For a 3 × 3 grid of 4:5 pieces it is 4:5 again, because three pieces across and three down keep the shape of one piece.

Normally the pieces meet exactly at the cut lines, and no pixel appears in two pieces. Overlap, under More options, changes that. Each piece then reaches past every inner cut line by the number of pixels you set, from 0 to 500, so neighbouring pieces share a strip of the picture. The outer edges of the picture stay where they are.

Why split image with overlap? Some panorama and stitching programs need a shared strip to line the pieces up again. Slides that repeat a little of the previous slide help viewers follow a long panorama. And when pieces will be printed and trimmed by hand, a few spare pixels on each side leave room for a cut that is not perfectly straight.

Keep in mind that overlapping pieces are slightly larger than a plain cut and no longer all the same size: pieces in the middle overlap on both sides, pieces at the edge on one side only. For a profile grid or a carousel that must line up exactly, leave Overlap at 0. For printing on paper, use the overlap in millimetres that Pages for printing offers, described below.

Pages for printing turns one picture into a poster made of several sheets of paper. You choose the paper size, A4, Letter or A3, and how many pages across the poster should be, from 1 to 12. The page works out how many pages down are needed for the shape of your picture, and the line under the preview shows the number of pages and the size of the finished poster in centimetres.

When you split image into multiple pages for printing here, you get one PDF for each picture, with one part of the picture on each page. Every page has a white margin, so nothing falls into the edge that most home printers cannot reach. Neighbouring pages repeat a strip of the picture, the overlap for gluing, so you can lay one sheet over the next without a gap. Small marks at the corners show where to trim, and a short label under each part gives its place, such as Row 1, column 2 of 2 × 3.

Orientation is set to Automatic by default: landscape pictures go on landscape pages and portrait pictures on portrait pages, which wastes the least paper. You can force Portrait or Landscape if you prefer. The preview shows the page layout on the picture itself, as dashed rectangles with numbers, so when you change Pages across you see straight away how the poster grows.

Open the PDF and print it at 100%, which some print windows call Actual size. Do not choose Fit to page or Shrink to fit: that scales every page down a little, the overlap no longer matches and the poster comes out smaller than shown. If you want to be sure, print one page first and measure the picture on it.

Lay the pages out in order using the labels: row 1 is the top of the poster and column 1 is the left. On each sheet, trim away the white margin on the sides that will lie on top of a neighbour, cutting along the corner marks. Then slide that edge over the next sheet until the repeated strip lines up, and fix it with a glue stick or tape from the back. Join the sheets of each row first, then join the rows.

A glue stick or double-sided tape keeps paper flatter than liquid glue. For a sturdier result, mount the finished poster on card or foam board, or take the PDF to a copy shop and have it printed on thicker paper.

Overlap for gluing can be set from 0 to 50 mm and the margin from 0 to 40 mm. A wider overlap is more forgiving when you line up the sheets. A margin of 0 only makes sense on a printer that prints edge to edge; most home printers leave 3 to 6 mm blank around each sheet. Corner marks and page labels can be switched off if you want clean pages.

A poster is only as sharp as the picture it comes from. Pages for printing spreads the pixels of your picture over the poster width you choose; it cannot invent detail that is not there. A small picture stretched over many sheets will look soft and blocky up close, however carefully it is printed.

A useful rule of thumb: for a poster seen from a metre or more away, about 100 to 150 pixels per inch of poster width is plenty. One inch is 2.54 cm, so a poster 55 cm wide, about 21.7 inches, wants a picture roughly 2,200 to 3,250 pixels wide. A typical phone photo, about 4,000 pixels across, is enough for a poster of around 70 cm wide at that distance, and up to about a metre if it hangs high or far away. A picture of about 1,000 pixels saved from a social media post will look soft at that size.

So choose Pages across to suit your picture as well as your wall. If the result looks soft, use fewer pages across, or start from the original file from your camera or phone rather than a copy sent through a messaging app, which often shrinks pictures. Enlarging the picture first with Resize Image only adds pixels, not detail, so it will not make the poster any sharper.

Each page of the PDF holds its part of the picture as a high-quality JPG at the picture's own resolution, so the PDF keeps all the detail your picture has. A rough print preview: zoom the PDF to 100% on screen and look at it from a short distance. What looks soft there will look soft on paper too.

Every piece is copied straight from the full-size picture. There is no resizing, no smoothing and no shortcut through the small preview: a 6,000 pixel wide photo cut down the middle gives two pieces of 3,000 pixels each, with every pixel of the original in its place.

To split image without losing quality, the output format matters as well. PNG is lossless, so a PNG piece holds exactly the pixels of that part of the picture. JPG pieces are saved at quality 95, which looks the same as the original to the eye at normal viewing, although it is technically a new compression. With Format set to Same as picture, JPG pictures give JPG pieces and every other format gives PNG pieces.

If you need to split image without losing quality down to the last pixel, choose PNG. The files will be larger than JPG pieces, especially for photos. For social media, JPG pieces are a sensible choice, because the platform compresses every upload again anyway.

One thing that is not copied is the information stored inside the photo file, such as the camera model, the date taken and the location. The pieces are new files and do not carry that data, which is also a small plus for privacy when you post them.

You can add JPG, PNG, WebP, GIF, BMP and AVIF pictures. An animated GIF is cut as its first frame only. Transparent areas in PNG, WebP and GIF pictures stay transparent in PNG pieces; in JPG pieces they turn white, because JPG cannot hold transparency.

File names start with the name of your picture, followed by a label for each piece. Row and column gives names such as photo-r1-c2.png, which say exactly where a piece belongs. 1, 2, 3 numbers the pieces left to right, row by row, with leading zeros when there are ten or more, so they sort in the right order in any folder: photo-01.jpg, photo-02.jpg and so on. Instagram post order numbers them in reverse, starting with post-1 at the bottom right, for profile grids.

With one picture cut into pieces, Download all puts the pieces into one ZIP, and every piece can also be saved on its own from the list. With several pictures, the ZIP holds every piece of every picture. In print mode each picture gives one PDF, named after the picture and the grid of pages, such as photo-poster-3x2.pdf for three pages across and two down.

You can add up to 50 pictures at a time, each up to 80 MB. They are all cut with the same settings, one after another, and a progress bar shows how far along the work is. Click a name in the list above the preview to see that picture with its own cut lines.

Batch work helps when you have a pile of scans to cut down the middle, a series of panoramas for carousels, or a folder of sprite sheets that share the same grid. Every picture gets the same rows and columns, so you can split image into equal parts across a whole folder in one go. With Square or 4:5 pieces, every picture is trimmed from its own centre, so look at the preview of a few pictures before you press the button.

Very large pictures need a lot of memory to decode. On an older phone they may take a while, or fail; if that happens, cut the picture on a computer, or make it smaller first with Resize Image when a smaller result is acceptable.

You can split image online free on a phone just as well. The page works the same way in Safari on iPhone and iPad and in Chrome on Android. Tap the box to choose photos from your library, set the layout and tap the button. Pieces are saved to the Files app on iPhone and to the Downloads folder on Android, and from there you can add them to your photos or share them to an app.

For carousel and grid posts made on a phone, saving the pieces one by one is often quicker than a ZIP, because single pictures can go straight to your photo library. A poster PDF can be sent to a printer from the phone's share menu; check that the print scale is 100% before you print.

Your pictures are cut on your own device. They are read by the browser, cut on a canvas in memory and saved straight to your downloads. They are not sent to FlipMyFormat or to anyone else, and nothing is stored on a server, so there is nothing to delete afterwards.

That makes the page a good fit for private photos, scans of documents and unreleased designs. Once the page has loaded, cutting even works if your connection drops. Close the tab and the pictures are gone from the page; the only thing kept is your choice of settings, in this browser.

When you add a picture, the browser decodes it and reads its width and height. For Equal pieces, the page works out the area to use, either the whole picture or a centred part of the right shape, divides it into the grid you chose and adds the overlap to every inner edge. Each piece is drawn onto a canvas at full size, one pixel to one pixel, and saved as JPG or PNG.

For Pages for printing, the page takes the paper size minus the margins as the printable area, works out how many millimetres each pixel covers so that the picture fills the pages across, and then places one part on each page, repeating the overlap on neighbouring pages. The parts go into a PDF with the exact page size of your paper, together with the corner marks and labels.

All of this uses features built into the browser, plus a small PDF library that loads only when you make a poster. No server is involved at any point. For other jobs with pictures, such as converting, compressing or rotating, see all Image Tools.

Check the cut lines in the preview before you press the button. A cut that runs through a face or a line of text is easy to miss in a small preview but obvious on a carousel slide. Moving the subject a little with Crop Image first often fixes it.

For carousels, put something worth looking at on every slide, and let the cuts between slides fall on calm parts of the picture, such as sky, water or a plain wall. The swipe then feels smooth instead of slicing through the main subject.

For posters, test a single page at 100% before printing the rest, keep the default overlap of 10 mm, and lay the sheets out on a table or the floor using the labels before you glue anything. Matte paper hides small seams better than glossy paper.

Keep the original. Cutting never changes the picture you added, but it is good practice to keep the full picture next to the pieces, in case you want to cut it differently later. To join pieces back together or put pictures side by side, use Merge Images; to arrange several photos in a designed layout, use Photo Collage.