The three write-ups
The editor is meant to be finished with in under a minute, so it does not stop to explain itself. These three pages are where the explaining happens.
Almost every collage that comes out disappointing was settled before anybody touched a slider. Too many photographs went in, or the shape was chosen for the wrong app, or an even grid was used on a set where one picture was plainly the point. None of those is a mistake you can see while you are making it, and none of them is something a rail full of controls can warn you about — which is why they are written down here instead.
Read in order they take about ten minutes and you will not need them again. Read one at a time, when the thing they describe is in front of you, they take two.
How many photos to put in a collage
Count the pictures you actually like before you count the slots, and learn why an odd number sits better on a phone screen than an even one.
Open it when: You have eleven photographs from an afternoon and no idea how many belong in one picture.
Which collage size for which app
The three shapes this tool saves in, written out in real pixels, with the crop each place applies once you have posted it.
Open it when: You want the collage to survive a story, a grid post and a display picture without losing a face to the crop.
Choosing a collage layout
Three questions that cut thirty arrangements down to two candidates, and what a gap between the slots is really doing for you.
Open it when: The layout strip is open, every chip looks plausible, and you have been scrolling it for a minute.
What is deliberately not written here
There is no piece on making a photograph look better, because nothing on this site changes a photograph — every picture is drawn into its slot exactly as it came off your device, cropped and scaled and otherwise untouched. There is no piece on captions, stickers or decorative edges either, for the same reason: the tool does not do those, so a page teaching them would be teaching you to leave.
And there is nothing here about arranging pictures freely on an open board. That is a genuinely different craft with its own vocabulary of overlap, rotation and depth, and it is the thing this tool gave up in exchange for being quick. The write-ups stay inside what the editor can actually do.
Or go straight to the editor
Nothing here is required reading. If you already know how many pictures you have and where the collage is going, one of these five doors will open the editor closer to what you want than the front page does.
- Three photosThe five three-slot layouts, and which one suits portraits.
- Four photosEven quarters, a lead picture, and the uneven four.
- Six photosSix that stay big enough to read on a phone.
- Nine photosThe three-by-three, and two ways out of it.
- Sized for InstagramOpens square, with the tall post and the story one tap away.