Tell about your vacation with a collage!
Photos are our memories and emotions. Summer is a great occasion to replenish the collection. One photo is the key to a good mood, a photo collage, this is your story.
There are many applications for creating photo collages on smartphones. Consider three, the most convenient and popular. Try and create your photo story!
1. Layout from Instagram
In the first place, of course, is the application from the developers of Instagram. Today, Instagram is the main photo sharing platform on the web. Its creators have developed a special application for creating unique collages from several photos.
A simple and intuitive interface allows you to fully immerse yourself in the creative process. Layout automatically sorts your shots into: "recent", "faces", "all". Up to 9 photos can be placed in one collage. Based on the proposed 12 options, you are sure to find a suitable template. By selecting a specific one, you can continue to edit photos: move, resize and rotate.The Photobooth mode allows you to take burst selfies while simultaneously turning them into a collage.
Of course, don't forget Instagram's creative tools and filters! Together with Layout, you will have a perfect and original collage.
The Layout app is free and works on iOS and Android platforms.
2. "Magic photo collage"
The Magic Photo Collage app for iOS and Android smartphones allows you to turn your photos into a story with an unusual design in a few seconds. The application allows you to edit images using various filters, patterns, background colors, stickers and text. It turns out that you are using a graphics editor and creating a photo collage at the same time!
Photos can be resized manually with a simple swipe. Choose from hundreds of templates and get creative.
When downloaded, the Magic Photo Collage app is free, but paid content is offered to unlock additional features and collage templates.
3. Moldova
Universal photo editor with the ability to create collages. The Moldiv app makes this process easy and fun. Your attention will be offered basic and paid content. The basic one is enough to create a great photo collage, try it!
First, select the shape of the template (square, rectangle, triangle, etc.), adjust the distance between frames and find a suitable background (tree, cage, child, etc.).
It's time for photos. Images can be added from the camera and gallery, their location in the template depends on the order in which they are added. Paid content allows you to swap photos in places. Optionally, you can add stickers and text.
The Moldiv app allows you to combine up to 16 photos into one collage! Moldiv is available to iOS and Android smartphone users.
You can create photo collages, as well as store them in unlimited quantities, using the Google Photo service. After the update, the application received several useful innovations, which can be found in the article
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Photo collages are a great way to show your loved ones a large number of photos taken during your vacation in a short time. At the same time, you do not need to upload a million pictures to the device and waste extra free space on the device. There are many applications of this kind available in the App Store now, let's see which ones are the best.
iPhoto
Moldova (Overview)
Moldiv is one of the most unique and interesting apps because it has so many different features. You can, for example, change the outline and size of the image, the distance between photos, add backgrounds, stickers and text by applying different fonts and textures. And even if the presented options of the free version are not enough for you, you can buy additional collage layouts in a special store. When one of your masterpieces is finished, you can send it to one of the social networks or save it to your device in high resolution.
Pic Stitch
Flipagram
Fuzel
How to create a collage on a computer
If you still have the Picasa app, use it. This is the best collage maker except for professional editors. Google has discontinued its further support and downloading a secure installation file is almost impossible now. But nothing, there is a replacement from Russian developers.
PhotoCollage is an application from AMS Software that allows you to edit images and create collages. In addition to functionality and ease of use, the program supports synchronization with cloud storage, which will allow you to access your creations at any time.
- To get started, download and install the program from the official website.
- After installing and launching the application for the first time, you will be prompted to buy a license.
Attention! Never buy software products without prior test use.
- After launch, the main window of the application will look like this. To create a new project (collage), click on the "Create a new project" button.
- Next, select the project type: "Clean Project", "Page Templates", "Collage Templates".
Advice! If you are new to graphic design and using this program for the first time, use Collage Templates.
Given the fact that minimalism is in vogue, let's create a collage using a page template: compose 3 photos and separate them with colored stripes. Fast and cute.
- To get started, choose a folder to store your pictures. From there, you will later drag and drop images onto the editor workspace.
- Move the desired files to the template canvas.
- Each photo is edited: a frame is added, the position is changed, effects are applied, cropped, etc.
- Apply background changes, effects, frames and all kinds of decorations to the entire collage, add a text signature.
- After processing and editing your creation, save the file in a popular raster graphics format.
The best option is "Collage of pictures - Photo Grid". This service copes with the needs of the user and has on board the functions of a basic graphic editor. Not Photoshop, but acceptable for a mobile device. To create a collage, open the application, select the template you like and add photos from the gallery to the image fields. In the toolbar, you will find a standard set of a graphic editor: filters, adding text, changing contrast, brightness, etc.
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Let's see what applications you can use on your iPhone to quickly make a collage of several photos. Consider the best free apps.
This article applies to all iPhone 11/Xs(r)/X/8/7/6 and Plus models on iOS 13. Older versions may have different or missing menu items and hardware support listed in the article.
Photo collages are a great way to show loved ones many different photos taken during your vacation in a short time. You will not need to fill in a lot of pictures on the gadget and spend extra free space on the device. Now in a large number of applications of this type.
Collage apps for iPhone
There are many applications for photo editing. Such programs can be divided into two types: those with functionality only for collages and those with other functions.
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Here is a list of programs that, apart from creating collages, do not have other functions:
- collageable.
- Pic Easy Collage.
- mixgram.
- Pic Collage.
- Photo Grid.
- Layout from Instagram.
On Instagram, it is these applications that created most of the interesting photos that combine several more. So you can shave and test them.
More creative people will need additional features, as they like to dig deeper into their photos. List of such applications:
- iPhoto
- Framatic.
- PicsArt.
- Fuzel.
- FotoRus.
- Flipagram.
- Retrica.
- MOLDIV.
Each application is good on its own. Let's see which programs are the best.
iPhoto
To get a photo collage, follow these steps:
- The necessary photos are preliminarily marked with a flag.
- We move them to a special folder "Marked with a flag".
- All pictures should be highlighted. Click on the "Export" button in the lower right corner of the screen.
- A menu will be displayed where you need to select "Mail", after which templates for collages will be demonstrated.
Photos can be swapped, reduced or enlarged, add explanatory text or a title. The app for new iPhones is available for free.
Moldova
When the application is launched, the user will have access to a large collection of collage templates. In the future photo, the areas are divided into two, four, five or six pictures. The forms of the templates also differ:
- Triangles.
- Rectangles.
- Squares.
If you make several swipes, you can see all the blanks and choose the most suitable one for yourself. Now consider the process of creating a collage:
- First you need to set everything up a little differently. In the settings of this section, you can select the appropriate aspect ratio of the frame, the shape of the rounded edges for the selected template shape, the distance of pictures from each other, and other useful functions.
- Now we go to the “Background” section, where all kinds of backgrounds are available to the user. Plaid, children's, with wood textures, plain - everyone can find something for themselves in this catalog. You can also choose pictures for the background from your gallery.
- Uploading the first photo. We make one tap on the square, after which we select pictures from the gallery. They will be located in the collage in the order in which you select them in the Camera Roll. All of them can be stretched, reduced in size, enlarged, moved within their limits.
- In the application, you can make a collage right away by writing an appeal or a title, and then choosing a text color or a suitable texture for the inscription. If desired, you can arrange a substrate for the text. Click "OK", and then choose a place for our greeting. The inscription can be twisted, reduced and enlarged.
- The Stickers menu is made for an amateur. It has stickers with inscriptions, for example, "I love you".
- When everything is set up, click on the "Save" icon in the lower right corner of the screen.
On the right, in the drop-down menu, you can view the tutorial for the application, evaluate collages from pictures of other people on Instagram using the #Moldiv hashtag. If desired, additional collage layouts can be purchased for the application.
Pic Stitch
Quite a powerful application for making collages. The software has a large number of templates.
All collages are sorted by the number of cells involved. The program has a built-in flexible toolkit that allows you to process added images.
Most of the arranged collages on Facebook are made in this application. It is possible to create a photo of a very large size.
Flipagram
The application allows you to tell the user some story by turning pictures into a video. Photos can be imported from Instagram, Facebook or your library. It is enough to select the necessary photos, or duplicate pictures, u and text.
Fuzel
Fuzel lets you create beautiful collages in seconds. At the moment, this is a very fast and convenient application. You just need to choose the pictures you like, and Fuzel will simply arrange them in the right order.
The most effective way to make a collage of images on a tablet is to use special applications. It is not cost-effective to make collages through online services - they usually work on a “flash”, and this technology is not particularly friendly to the Android system.
List of the best apps to make collages on your tablet
Photo Collage Editor is the first program on the Google Play list for “collage”. It contains many ready-made templates, just choose the one you like and insert a photo there. It is also possible to place images in frames, or put stickers and text on them.
Photo Collage + Photo Editor is an application for those who actively use Instagram. Choose a collage template, frame, edit colors, and upload the result to Instagram directly from the app. Its advantage is that the program automatically adjusts the collage to the desired size required for uploading to Instagram.
Moldiv - Collage Photo Editor is perhaps the most sophisticated application for creating impressive collages. Thanks to Moldiv, you can create not only rectangular and square collages, you can make them in absolutely any shape. The application has a lot of built-in frames, templates, fonts, there are basic image editing capabilities. As a result, you can get quite a solid collage that will fit even as an image on a postcard, CD or book cover.
Using the Moldiv application as an example, let's look at how to create a collage
1. Launch the application, you will see a list of blank templates. Choose the blank you like, then poke your finger in the area where the image should be
2.
A tab will open with your photos/pictures. At the bottom there will be a panel to which you need to drag the necessary images, after which you need to click the button with a check mark.
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The collage is ready. However, you can click the “Random Preset” button and a collage with a different arrangement of elements will be generated immediately. If everything suits you, you can add text, a frame, roundness to images, edit the background color. All these settings are at the bottom of the collage in the toolbar. There you can also select tools for editing the shape and size of blocks. For more details on how the app works and how to create a collage, see the official video:
