How to make a collage: 10 free tools

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-13 00:26

Compose images on any device with these handy tools.

1. Google Photos

Platforms: web, Android, iOS.

The simplest collage can be made in the popular Google Photos application. It is enough to select several images in the gallery, click on the plus and select "Collage". However, you won't be able to customize anything. Therefore, "Google Photos" is suitable only for users for whom the location of pictures and other parameters of the collage are not particularly important.

2. Photo Grid

Platforms: Android, iOS.

Photo Grid offers a variety of design templates and grids to help you quickly create a collage of medium complexity. The program supports stickers and allows you to paint over images. With filters and simple color adjustments, you can tweak the look of your photos.

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3. Layout

Platforms: Android, iOS.

This Instagram app was a hit right after its release. Although there are no stickers, filters, color corrector, and many other tools in Layout, it allows you to compose multiple shots in a matter of seconds and adjust their position to your liking. This is because the Layout interface is great for small touchscreen displays.

4. Pic Collage

Platforms: Windows, Android, iOS.

Pic Collage has a variety of rectangular grids in its arsenal. But you can also place photos in any way, without strict alignment relative to each other. In addition, the program has several templates for creating collages in the form of postcards. You can apply text, stickers, filters to images and customize their borders.

If Pic Collage interests you, keep in mind: the free version leaves a watermark on all saved collages.

PicCollage: Photo Layout Edits Cardinal Blue

Pic Collage Cardinal Blue Software

5. Instagram

Platforms: Android, iOS.

Recently, you can compose several photos directly on Instagram. To do this, in the story creation menu, you need to turn on the "Collage" shooting mode and select a template with the required number of shots. The photos taken after that will appear on the screen in the form of a grid, which can then be published or saved.

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6. Canva

Platforms: web, Android, iOS.

Canva is designed to create collage graphics for presentations, resumes, certificates, posters, book covers or social profiles. The developers have added a lot of blanks that greatly simplify such work. Having chosen the desired template, the user can quickly edit it to suit his needs, add diagrams, various shapes, text and other elements.

Canva: design, photos & videos Canva

Canva: design, photos & videos Canva

7. Befunky

Platforms: web, Android, iOS.

This service combines a photo editor and a powerful collage manager. At the service of the user - grids of various types, background settings, shape and size of photos. And if you need to thoroughly correct the finished collage, you can always use a graphic editor.

BeFunky Photo Editor BeFunky INC

BeFunky BeFunky Inc

8. PicsArt

Platforms: web, Windows, Android, iOS.

PicsArt offers an impressive collection of compositing grids and various settings for backgrounds, image borders and collage aspect ratios. There are also templates in the form of photo frames. You can decorate pictures with stickers, draw on them and write in different fonts. Plus, PicsArt is also a powerful graphics editor.

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Picsart photo and video editor PicsArt, Inc.

Picsart Photo Studio: Collage Maker and Picture Editor Developer

9. Fotor

Platforms: web, Windows, macOS, Android, iOS.

Another online service for creating complex photo collages and at the same time a graphic editor. Among other things, Fotor allows you to customize collage backgrounds, add text and various stickers. But the strongest side of the service is the large number of curly nets. With their help, photographs can be given unusual shapes, such as hearts or complex geometric shapes.

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Fotor Chengdu Everimaging Science and Technology Co Ltd

10. FotoJet

Platforms: web, Windows, macOS.

FotoJet also combines the functions of a collage manager and photo editor. Inside you will find templates to help you quickly create graphics for postcards, posters, and social media. The service also contains a lot of grids and stickers. You can add custom text to images. FotoJet also has desktop versions, but in free mode they leave watermarks on images.