How to make a photo collage?

It's the period of social networking and people these days love uploading their photos on the web. Out of these most of them tend to add filters to their photos or make a collage. Daily, hundreds and thousands of photo collages are being uploaded. And for those who still don't know an appropriate way to make one, you are in the right place! In this blog post I will be clearly explaining the steps in making an 'exciting' collage. So, put on your seat belts and get ready for some serious job.

There are lot of photo editors or photo editing softwares that can help you make a collage. But, here I will be mainly dealing with Picmonkey, as I find it a very simple and free way to edit photos online. Moreover editing photos on softwares like Adobe Photoshop can be cumbersome. So I feel by choosing Picmonkey can make it simpler, faster, and easier. Now, lets look at the steps.

Step 1: Go to picmonkey.com. Once you are on the home page, you can find 3 options on the top of the site: 'Edit a photo', 'Create a collage' and 'Design'. Click on the 'Create a collage' button.

Step 1

Step 2: Once you finish step one, you will find yourself in the window similar to the one below. All you need to do is upload the photos(which you want to make a collage of) to Picmonkey Editor. You will see an option, 'Open photos' on the right top side of the window. Click on that option and upload the required photos. 

Step 2

Step 3: Then, you need to drag the uploaded photos to the center of the editor(on the blank collage). Later, you need to select a layout for your collage. By choosing a layout, you can decide how you want your photos in the collage to be arranged. Picmonkey offers users a wide range of layouts, though some are for Royal users.

Step 3

Step 4: This step is all about adding swatches. This step is optional. If you are interested, then this is what you need to know. Swatches are just designed backgrounds which can be used to fill the gaps in the collage. Swatches can be applied the same way as you put the photos on the collage, just drag it!

Step 4

Step 5: And coming to the final step. Here you can edit the background, maybe change the colour of it or just deal with spacing. Once you are done with this you can either edit the collage with Picmonkey Editor or just save the file. That's all. You will have your collage done and ready to be uploaded!

Step 5

Below you can see a collage that I made for this blog post. As I told before, you can add filters, crop, add text, and more on the collage by opening it on the Picmonkey Editor. Hope you liked this post and do comment below, if have anything to tell me. More in the next post.

Result!