How to make a photo collage without cropping any of the photos

In Collage maker, add your photos and choose Uncropped at the end of the layout list. Each photo keeps its own shape, nothing is cut off, and the photos sit in neat rows of equal width. Pick a canvas close to the shape of your photos so little background shows, then download.

Steps

1. Open Collage maker and drop in 2 to 9 photos. You can add more later, up to nine.
2. Under Layout for N photos, choose Uncropped. It is the last option for every photo count.
3. Under Canvas size, pick the shape closest to the overall look: Portrait 2:3 for mostly tall photos, Landscape 3:2 or Wide 16:9 for mostly wide ones, or Square.
4. Set Spacing for the gap between photos and Background for the colour that fills the spare space.
5. Choose JPG or PNG under Download as and press Download.

How Uncropped arranges the photos

Grid layouts give every photo a fixed cell and crop it from the centre to fill that cell. That is tidy, but a tall portrait in a wide cell loses its top and bottom.

Uncropped works the other way round. It keeps the photos in the order you added them and puts them into rows where every photo in a row has the same height, so their widths follow their own shapes. It tries the different ways of splitting the photos into rows and picks the one that covers the most of your canvas. The download is still the exact canvas size you chose; any space left above, below or at the sides is filled with the background colour.

Picking the canvas so the gaps stay small

A social size works too. Or a social size below the plain shapes lists the platform sizes, such as an Instagram portrait post. If you see wide bands of background above and below, switch to a taller canvas; bands at the sides mean a wider one.

Order matters

Because Uncropped keeps your order, the rows depend on which photos sit next to each other. Two tall photos together in a row stay large; a tall photo next to a very wide one becomes small, since they share a height. To change the order, drag one photo onto another to swap them.

When cropping is fine after all

Uncropped is for photos where the edges carry meaning: documents, screenshots, receipts, artwork, a group shot with people at the sides. For holiday photos where a little trimming does not matter, a grid layout such as Grid or Mosaic fills the canvas completely with no background showing. You can still drag inside each photo to choose what stays in its cell. For a simple pair, see putting two photos side by side.

Spacing and corners

Spacing sets the gap between photos and around the edge, from 0 to 60 pixels. Corner radius rounds every photo, from 0 to 80 pixels. Both are measured against a 1080 pixel canvas, so the look stays the same if you switch to a larger size. A spacing of 0 with a white background gives a clean, borderless block.

Questions

How many photos can a collage hold?

From 2 to 9. Remove one by tapping it and pressing Remove photo.

Is the collage file too big to send?

Choose JPG for photos; it is far smaller than PNG. For a size limit, compress the downloaded collage with Compress image.

Will my photos lose quality?

Each photo is scaled to the space it takes on the canvas. A small photo given a large space is enlarged and can look soft, so start from full-size photos rather than thumbnails or chat copies.

Are my photos uploaded?

No. The collage is built in your browser, and your photos stay on your device. The download has no watermark.