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Photo Collage

Make a photo collage in your browser — add up to 4 photos, pick a 2/3/4 grid, adjust the gap and background, export one PNG. No upload, no watermark, free.

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Processed locally — nothing is uploaded

How to make a photo collage

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Add your photos one by one — up to four. Each image loads instantly in your browser; nothing is uploaded, and the drop zone stays open so you can keep adding.

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Pick a layout — two, three, or four photos in a grid — and adjust the gap and background color. The collage re-renders live with every change, and each photo is cropped to its cell instead of being stretched.

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Click Download and the whole grid saves as one PNG — a single file ready for social posts, prints, or family albums. No watermark on your result.

Know-how

Why grids work: the geometry of collages

A collage is a single image made of several, and grids survive as the default layout for a geometric reason: equal cells give every photo equal visual weight, and the eye reads them as one composed piece instead of a pile. Consistent gaps act as frames that separate the photos while tying them together; remove the gaps and the edges fuse into a triptych; widen them and each photo stands alone with breathing room. The square cell, in particular, has been the standard since film photography because it crops gracefully from any aspect ratio — which is exactly why this tool center-crops every photo into its cell instead of distorting it.

Composition: order your photos with intent

The order you add photos becomes the reading order of the collage, and the first cell is where eyes land first — so lead with your strongest image. For storytelling sequences, keep events in chronological order; for comparisons, put the reference on the left and the result on the right; for family sets, put faces in the center cells where crops will not cut them. Since every photo is center-cropped, check that the important subject sits near the middle of each shot — subjects near the edges can get trimmed. Add photos in the order you want them to appear, and the layout logic takes care of the geometry.

From wedding boards to nine-grid posts

Collages earn their keep in the same recurring situations. Travel days condense into a three-photo strip; before-and-after renovations pair up in two cells; wedding and baby boards want the balanced 2×2 square; and the classic nine-grid feed post — one image sliced into nine squares — starts as a single photo cropped and split, which you can build by exporting grid pieces from the Crop tool. Whatever the occasion, the rule is the same: a handful of well-ordered photos in a clean grid reads as one story, which is exactly what this tool produces.

Frequently asked questions

Is this collage maker really free?+

Yes. Every layout is rendered in your browser with no server involved — there is no upload queue, no watermark on the result, and no limit on how many collages you export.

How many photos can I combine?+

Up to four per collage, in grids of two, three, or four. Four covers the classic 2×2 square and the three-in-a-row strip; if you need more photos in one image, export several collages and combine them, or place them into a wider grid with the Add Text tool's canvas.

Will my photos be stretched or distorted?+

No. Every photo is scaled to cover its cell and center-cropped — proportions stay intact, and the parts that do not fit are trimmed off the edges, never squashed. That is the same behavior used by every major photo-grid app.

What layout should I pick?+

Match the layout to the story. Two photos side by side suits before-and-after pairs; two stacked suits portrait crops; three in a row suits a mini-series or a day in three moments; the 2×2 square suits feed posts where every photo should stay square. The gap and background sliders let you tune the mood — wider gaps and white look airy, zero gap and black looks like a film strip.

Will my photos leave my device?+

No. Every photo you add, every layout you try, and the final PNG all stay inside this browser tab. The collage tool makes no network requests at all.

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