Photo collage maker with grids and heart shapes

An online tool for building a photo collage: 42 ready layouts plus an auto grid for any number of shots from 1 to 24. Every photo is cropped by subject — the tool looks for faces and for the busiest detail, so a cell shows the person rather than the top of their head. The finished picture collage downloads at full resolution with no watermark, or goes out as a PDF sized for 4×6 and A4 printing.

How to make a photo collage

4 steps
1
Upload your photos

Drop several shots at once, pick them from the gallery or paste an image from the clipboard. The collage assembles itself and the framings are picked by subject.

2
Choose a layout and a frame

Browse the layouts for your photo count and set the proportions: a square for a post, 9:16 for a story, A4 or 4×6 for print.

3
Adjust the framings

Drag a photo inside its cell, scroll to zoom, drag shots onto each other to swap them, and move the dividers to resize cells.

4
Style it and save

Set the gap, corners, border and background, add a title or captions, then download JPG, PNG, WebP or a print-ready PDF.

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Build a collage from your own shots and print it

Drop your photos here
or choose files — several at once is fine
Up to 24 photos. You can also paste an image straight from the clipboard (Ctrl+V)
Size: — File: —
Gestures and shortcuts
Drag a photo inside its cell to reposition it. Wheel or pinch to zoom. Drag one photo onto another to swap them. Drag a divider to resize cells. Double-click to re-pick the framing by subject.
Frame
The collage is built as a strip of :n posts and cut with no seam. You get a numbered archive — pick all of them at once in Instagram.
Layout
Selected photo
Tap a photo in the collage and its own settings appear here. The R key rotates too.
Background
Filters
Which palette
Captions
Saving
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Features

42 layouts, an auto grid and a heart shape
2×2 and 3×3 grids, "one big plus small ones", mosaics, strips, rows and columns. When no curated layout matches your photo count, the auto grid picks the column count from the collage proportions. And the whole collage can be shaped into a heart or a circle — with any layout.
Cropped by faces, not by center
Before a shot is cropped into a cell the tool builds a detail map and looks for faces: a framing that slices a face is penalized, one that keeps it whole is rewarded. That answers the top complaint about automatic collages — "it cut off heads".
Changing the frame breaks nothing
Proportions and layout are parameters, not a baked picture. Switch 1:1 to 9:16 or to A4 and your photos, their zoom and the framings you chose are kept and re-fitted to the new cell shapes.
Dividers are draggable
Borders between cells drag with a mouse or a finger: a grid's vertical divider moves every row at once so the line never bends. A cell cannot vanish — the drag stops at the limit.
Printing with an honest dpi
A4, A4 landscape and 4×6 are built at their real physical size: the page shows the resulting dots per inch and the PDF is assembled without an intermediate re-compression.
Full resolution and clipboard
Export to JPG, PNG and WebP up to 4096 px on the long edge; PNG keeps a transparent background. "Copy" puts the collage straight into the clipboard so you can paste it into a chat or a document without saving a file.

Questions and answers

How many photos fit in one collage?

Between 1 and 24. For 1 to 10 and for 12 photos there are 42 curated layouts — grids, mosaics, "one big plus small ones"; for the other counts an auto grid picks the column count from the collage proportions you chose.

Why does this collage not cut off faces?

Each photo is analyzed before cropping: a detail map is built and faces are located. Of all the candidate framings of the required shape, the winner is the one that keeps a face whole and carries the most detail. A framing that slices a face is penalized, so it loses even against a plain background.

Can I swap two photos?

Yes, in two ways: drag one photo straight onto another in the collage, or drag a thumbnail in the strip above the layouts. The framing travels with the photo.

What happens if I change the proportions after building it?

Nothing is lost. The photos, their order, zoom and chosen framings all stay: the tool recomputes the cells for the new shape and re-fits each framing around the same center.

How do I print the collage?

Pick A4, A4 landscape or 10×15 cm (4×6 in) and the real resolution in dpi appears next to the size. "PDF for print" assembles a document at exactly that physical size, and "Print sheet" lays several 10×15, 13×18 or 9×13 cm copies on one A4 with cut marks.

Can the collage have a transparent background?

Yes: choose the "Transparent" background and the PNG format. JPG has no transparency — there the background is filled with the color you picked.

Will HEIC photos from an iPhone go into the collage?

Yes. HEIC and HEIF open right in the browser and the camera orientation is respected, so shots do not end up lying on their side.

Can the collage be heart-shaped or round?

Yes. Under "Layout", pick the "Heart" or "Circle" shape: the photos stay in the cells of the layout you chose and the whole collage is clipped to the outline. A border, if you set one, traces the outline too. With a transparent background and PNG you get a heart with nothing around it.

How is this different from simply merging images?

Merging places pictures next to each other as they are. A collage has a layout of cells: every shot is cropped into its cell by subject, cells can be resized, and the whole collage can be moved to different proportions without losing the work. For stitching screenshots and stacking layers there is a separate tool, "Photo merger: two pictures into one".

How do I turn a collage into an Instagram carousel?

Pick the "Carousel" frame and the number of posts: the collage is built as one strip as wide as that many 1:1 or 4:5 slides and cut at exactly 1080 pixels, so no seam shows when people swipe. The slides download as an archive, numbered in order.

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