Free Instagram photo collage maker

An Instagram photo collage brings several photos together in one post: a grid of four portraits, a mosaic of travel memories, a few Polaroids set at an angle. SwipeAtelier is an Instagram photo collage maker that lets you build one for free, online, with no sign-up and no watermark, at Instagram's exact dimensions.

A collage on one image, or spread across several

Two ways to work, in the same editor:

• A single image. Set the number of slides to 1 and you get a classic collage in 4:5, 3:4, square, or 9:16 for a story.
• A whole carousel. With 2 to 20 slides, the collage stretches over one wide canvas that spans the entire carousel. A photo can sit right across two slides; on export, the edges line up exactly and the layout reveals itself as people swipe. That is the idea behind the seamless carousel.

You can change the number of slides at any time.

The layouts available

Grids. 2 × 2, 3 × 3, columns, or one large photo with smaller ones. A grid suits consistent sets: products from the same range, portraits.

Mosaics. Frames of different sizes that fit together. They let you mix vertical and horizontal photos and give the main image more room.

Scattered. Tilted photos, as if pinned to a cork board. The look is looser, a good fit for a travel journal or the story of a weekend.

Seamless. Strips of photos that run across the cuts, staggered rows, bricks, zigzag, diagonal: layouts designed for the carousel.

Each layout is calculated for the format and number of slides you choose, and switching templates keeps the photos you have already placed. The carousel templates page presents every family.

Adjust each photo

Photos are imported with the button, by drag and drop or by copy and paste. After that, each one is adjusted on its own:

• crop inside its frame, move, resize, rotate;
• bring forward or send behind other elements, duplicate, set opacity;
• brightness, contrast, saturation;
• Original, Vivid, Soft, Black & white and Sepia filters.

Applying the same filter to every photo pulls together a collage whose images come from different sources.

Polaroid frames, text, shapes and stickers

Frames. A simple border, or a Polaroid frame with its wider bottom margin. The drop shadow lifts the photo off the background and makes it look like a print laid on a table.

Text. Eight fonts, from clean sans serifs (Inter, Montserrat) to handwriting (Caveat, Pacifico), with bold, size, color and alignment.

Shapes. Rectangle, rounded, circle, triangle, star, heart, arrow. Tape, placed on the corner of a photo, completes the scrapbook effect.

Stickers. Emoji to place wherever you like.

Background. Solid color or a horizontal, vertical or diagonal gradient. On a carousel, the gradient runs from one slide to the next.

From photo collage to post

1. Open the collage editor in your browser, then choose the format, the number of slides and a layout.
2. Import your photos, adjust them, add frames, text and stickers.
3. Check the result in the preview, then export as JPEG or PNG.
4. Save the images and select them in order in Instagram.

If you can't decide on a format, the Instagram sizes and formats guide compares 4:5, 3:4 and square.

No sign-up, and your photos stay with you

No account is required, no ads are shown, and the exported images carry no watermark. The collage is rendered by your browser: your photos are not sent to any server, and projects are saved on your device, in the "My collages" gallery. The privacy page explains what that means in practice.