Projects
Making a collage
A collage puts two to six of your photos in one frame, for a post, a story or a reel cover. Pick them, choose a layout, frame each one, and Save collage: it lands in Projects like any upload, ready to post.
Projects: making a collage
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- 1Pick the photosOn the web, select two or more in Projects (the box in a tile's corner, or ⌘-click) and press Make a collage, or open Upload → Collage and choose them there. On the phone, select them in Studio's grid and tap Collage. The order you picked them in is the order they fill the frame.
- 2Choose a layout, a shape, a background and the spacingEvery choice redraws the collage at once. The table below says what each is for.
- 3Frame each photoDrag a photo to move it in its cell; zoom it up to three times with ⌘-scroll or a pinch on a trackpad, or the Zoom slider once it is chosen. Double-click puts it back. On the phone: pinch, drag, double-tap.
- 4Swap twoHold a photo, then drag it onto another. The two trade places, each keeping its framing, and the drop is shown before you let go. On the phone: touch and hold, then drag.
- 5Save collageIt is drawn at full size and added to Projects, into the folder that is open if one is. On the web, Start a post with it opens the composer with the collage already attached.
| Option | Choices | What it is for |
|---|---|---|
| Layout | 1 col, 2 col, 3 col | How many photos sit side by side. A short last row stretches to the full width, so five photos in 3 col are rows of three and two, never a gap. |
| Shape | 4:5, 1:1, 9:16 | 4:5 fills a feed, 1:1 is a square, 9:16 is a story or a reel cover. |
| Background | White, Fiber, Cream, Black, Charcoal, Blush, Sage | The paper behind and between the photos: the photo booth's seven, so a strip and a collage look like one set. Fiber is the warm white of a black-and-white print. |
| Spacing | Padded, Full bleed | Padded leaves an even border of the background around and between the photos. Full bleed runs them edge to edge. |
Keys on the web
1–6Choose a photo
←→↑↓Nudge the chosen photo in its cell; with ⇧, ten times as far
+−Zoom it in or out
0Put its framing back
⌥←Swap it with the photo that way; any arrow works
DeleteTake it out of the collage
⌘ZUndo, including a Delete
⇧⌘ZRedo
⌘SSave collage
EscLet go of the chosen photo; again to close
The file
| Shape | Saved at |
|---|---|
| 4:5 | 2048 × 2560 |
| 1:1 | 2048 × 2048 |
| 9:16 | 2048 × 3641 |
A JPEG, saved exactly as drawn: the web and the phone write the same file for the same choices. It counts toward your monthly uploads like any file you add.
When a photo does not open
| What | What happens |
|---|---|
| Fewer than two photos | The editor asks for more with Choose photos or Add photos, and Save collage waits until there are two. |
| A file only on your phone | Left out, and the editor says so. Ask my phone on its tile sends it; then add it with Add photos. |
| A video | Its still goes in, as on the phone. A video with no still yet is left out. |
| A very large photo | Opened at 2,048 pixels on its long edge, which is as large as a collage uses, while its cell says it is opening a large photo. Nothing is refused for its size. |
| A photo that will not open | Its cell says why, with Try again and Leave it out. Save waits until every photo has opened or been left out. |
| Save does not reach your library | The collage stays as it is, with the reason, Try again, and Download it instead, so the work is never lost. |