🧱 Grid Collages

Photo Collage Maker for Clean Grids

Combine 2 to 9 photos into one neat collage for Instagram, a story, a slide or a printed page. Pick a layout, frame each photo and download a sharp image, all in your browser.

  • ✓ 27 layouts for 2–9 photos
  • ✓ Drag, zoom and swap photos per cell
  • ✓ 2048 px JPG or PNG, no watermark
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Drop 2–9 photos here

or click to select — JPG, PNG, WebP, GIF, BMP or AVIF, up to 50 MB each. Your photos never leave your device.

What is a photo collage maker?

A photo collage maker places several pictures side by side in one image, so you can share a trip, a before-and-after or a product range as a single post. Each photo sits in its own cell, and the cells line up in a grid with even spacing.

This one gives you two to four layout templates for every photo count from 2 to 9, and five canvas shapes: square, 4:5 portrait, 9:16 story, 16:9 landscape and A4 portrait. Every cell fills itself with its photo, cropping as little as possible. You then drag to choose what shows, zoom in on a detail, or swap photos between cells. Spacing, an outer border, rounded corners and the background colour are all adjustable, and the download is 2,048 pixels on its long side.

How to make a photo collage in 5 steps

  1. Add 2–9 photos

    Drop them on the box or click to choose.

  2. Pick a layout and shape

    Tap a layout icon, then choose square, portrait, story, landscape or A4.

  3. Frame each photo

    Select a cell, drag to reposition, and zoom with the slider, wheel or pinch.

  4. Style the grid

    Set spacing, border, corner radius and background colour.

  5. Download

    Choose JPG or PNG and save your collage.

Supported formats

JPGinput · output

EXIF rotation is applied. Output quality 60–100%.

PNGinput · output

Lossless output, optionally with a transparent background.

WebP / AVIFinput

Read wherever your browser can decode them.

GIF / BMPinput

Used as still images; an animated GIF gives its first frame.

2–9 photos, up to 50 MB each. Output is 2,048 px on the long side (at most 4.2 megapixels). HEIC is not supported, so convert it with the HEIC to JPG converter first.

How does it work?

Each photo is decoded in your browser and kept as a working copy of up to 2,560 px, plus a lighter preview copy. Each layout is a list of rectangles: the tool subtracts border and spacing, scales each photo to cover its cell and applies your pan and zoom, then redraws everything full size for download.

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Private

Photos are never uploaded.

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Exact framing

The preview and the download use the same maths.

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Touch friendly

Drag and pinch work on phones and tablets.

Picking the right canvas shape

Choose the shape for where the collage will be seen. Platforms change their recommendations, so treat these as typical values and check the platform's help pages before you post. Matching the shape up front avoids the app cropping your carefully framed edges:

  • Square 1:1: works almost everywhere, including feeds, profile grids and messaging apps.
  • Portrait 4:5: the tallest shape most feeds show in full, so it takes up more of the screen.
  • Story 9:16: full-screen stories and status updates. Keep faces away from the top and bottom edges, where app buttons appear.
  • Landscape 16:9: presentation slides, video thumbnails and website banners.
  • A4 portrait: a printable page. At 1,448 × 2,048 px it prints at about 175 DPI on A4, fine for a noticeboard but softer than a photo print.

Tips for a collage that looks balanced

Start with your strongest photo. Layouts with one large cell, such as "one large, four small", give the eye a clear place to land, so put your best shot there with the swap button or the "Photo in this cell" menu.

Match cell shapes to photo shapes. A tall portrait in a wide cell loses its top and bottom, so drag it until the important part shows, or switch to a layout with taller cells. Zoom lets you turn a busy scene into a close-up, and gives a group of mixed photos a more uniform scale, for example by making faces a similar size in every cell.

Keep spacing consistent with the mood. Thin gaps of 8–16 px look modern; wider white borders with rounded corners feel like a scrapbook. A dark background suits night shots, and for a page with its own colour, export a PNG with a transparent background.

If photos are tilted or sideways, fix them first with Rotate & Flip Image.

Image quality and file size

The collage is always 2,048 pixels on its long side. Each cell gets only part of that, so a 3×3 grid gives each photo about 660 px across with the default spacing. That is plenty for screens, and it means you don't need to resize photos first. Zooming past about 200% in a small cell can look soft if the original photo was small.

JPG at 85–92% quality usually gives a file of a few hundred kilobytes to around 1.5 MB, depending on detail. PNG is lossless, so it is larger. If a website or form has a size limit, run the result through the image compressor. To animate the same photos instead, try Images to GIF.

Frequently asked questions

Add 2 to 9 photos to the tool above, pick a layout and a canvas shape, then drag and zoom each photo inside its cell. Adjust spacing, border and colours, then press Download collage. There is no sign-up and no watermark.
No. The collage is built with JavaScript and the canvas in your own browser, so your photos stay on your device. Nothing is sent to a server, so it is safe for family pictures, and it keeps working offline once loaded.
Between 2 and 9. Each photo count has its own set of layouts, from side by side for two photos up to a 3 × 3 grid or one large photo with eight small ones for nine. For more photos, make two collages.
Tap a cell to select it, then drag to slide the photo. Zoom with the slider, the mouse wheel over the selected cell, or a two-finger pinch. With the keyboard, focus the preview and use the arrow keys to pan and plus or minus to zoom.
Yes. Select a cell, press Swap with, and then tap the cell you want to trade places with. You can also pick a different photo from the "Photo in this cell" menu, which swaps it with the cell that currently holds it. Positions reset after a swap.
The long side is always 2,048 pixels. A square collage is 2048 × 2048, 4:5 is 1638 × 2048, 9:16 is 1152 × 2048, 16:9 is 2048 × 1152 and A4 portrait is 1448 × 2048. The exact size is shown above the download button.
For feed posts, 4:5 portrait typically fills the most screen space, and square is the safest choice. For stories and reels covers, use 9:16. Instagram may resize uploads and its rules change, so check its help centre for current sizes.
Yes. Choose PNG as the format and tick Transparent background. The spacing, border and rounded corners then become see-through, so the collage blends into a coloured web page or slide. JPG cannot store transparency, so JPG collages always use the background colour.
Yes, choose the A4 portrait shape for a page. At 1448 × 2048 pixels it prints at about 175 DPI on A4, which looks fine at arm's length. For gallery-sharp prints at 300 DPI, print smaller, such as 4.8 × 6.8 inches, or ask your print shop.
The tool follows the rotation stored in a photo's EXIF data. If a photo still looks sideways, no rotation was recorded, so fix it with the rotate tool first. HEIC files from iPhones can't be read by most browsers, so convert them to JPG before adding them.