4 Photo Collage Maker
Make a 4 photo collage in seconds: four photos land in a 2x2 square grid with a white frame around and between them, like a printed contact sheet.
Drag & drop your photos
Add as many photos as you like. It all runs in your browser.
Four corners, four photos,
one tidy square.
The 2x2 grid is the most forgiving collage there is. Every photo gets the same space, nothing fights for attention, and the white frame does the job of a mat in a picture frame.
Other collage layouts
The same collage maker, opened on a different photo count, template or shape. Each one starts with its layout already set.
Tools that pair well with this one
All free, all in your browser, no signup.
Why use Piknova?
Four photos need four equal chances.
What makes a 2x2 collage look intentional, and what makes it look like an accident.
Piknova
What you get- Four equal cells with a real frame around them
- Line thickness and colour you set yourself
- Drawn in your browser, photos stay on your device
- Full size, 1080p or 720p, all free
- No account and no watermark
Other tools
What you put up with- Photos butted together until the grid disappears
- A white border at one fixed width, take it or leave it
- Four photos sent off to a server to build a preview
- The print-quality file kept behind an upgrade
- Sign in first, and a logo in the corner after
Four photos, three steps
Three steps in this browser tab, no account, no photo limit.
- 01
Drop four photos
JPG, PNG, WebP or AVIF. They fill the grid left to right, top row first.
- 02
Order and frame
Drag thumbnails to swap places, then click a cell to zoom or pan inside it.
- 03
Download
PNG, JPG or WebP. Full size for print, 1080p for posting. No watermark.
Step by step
How to make a 4 photo collage
The grid and the frame are ready before your photos arrive. What is left is the order, and making each photo sit well in its square.
- Drop four photos: Drag them onto the box at the top or pick them from your files. They read like a page: top left, top right, bottom left, bottom right.
- Set the order: Drag thumbnails in the strip under the preview. Put the photo that opens the story top left, because that is where everyone looks first.
- Frame each square: Click a cell, then drag to move the photo inside it or zoom to fill the square with the subject.
- Adjust the frame, if you like: In Lines, change the Thickness or the Line colour, or turn off Around the edge for a borderless look.
- Download: Choose PNG, JPG or WebP and an export size. The file has no watermark.
The layout
The 2x2 photo collage, measured
This page opens on the Even template, the Square shape and white lines at 2%. Here is what that makes, worked out by the code that draws your download.
| Part | Size at 1080 | Photo shape that fits it |
|---|---|---|
| The whole collage | 1080 x 1080 px | 1:1, square |
| Photos 1 to 4 | 507 x 507 px | 1:1, square |
Every cell is a square, so square photos drop in untouched. Phone photos lose a strip from their long side, and you choose which strip by dragging.
The line width is a share of the collage's shorter side, not a fixed number of pixels. Export at Full size or at 720p and the frame keeps the same proportion.
Other shapes
A 4 photo collage grid in any shape
Four photos stay in two rows of two on every shape. The neat part is that each cell takes the shape of the whole collage.
| Collage shape | Canvas | Photo 1's cell | Photo shape that fits it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Square (opens here) | 1080 x 1080 px | 507 x 507 px | 1:1, square |
| Portrait 4:5 | 1080 x 1350 px | 507 x 642 px | 4:5, upright |
| Story 9:16 | 1080 x 1920 px | 507 x 927 px | 9:16, upright |
| Wide 16:9 | 1920 x 1080 px | 927 x 507 px | 16:9, sideways |
| Landscape 4:3 | 1440 x 1080 px | 687 x 507 px | 4:3, sideways |
So a Wide 16:9 collage holds four wide cells, which is perfect for four landscape photos or four video stills. A Story 9:16 collage holds four tall ones, and four phone photos fit with almost nothing trimmed.
The lines take a little off each cell, so the cells end up slightly off the collage's exact shape. Turn the lines off and they match it.
Templates
Every 4 photo collage template, compared
The grid is one of six templates. With four photos, the other five give one photo the lead or break the symmetry on purpose.
| Template | Where the four photos go | Good for |
|---|---|---|
| Even | Two rows of two, all the same size | Four photos of equal weight (this page's default) |
| Big left | A tall cell on the left, three squares stacked beside it | A full-length portrait plus three details |
| Big right | The same, mirrored | When the tall photo's subject faces left |
| Big top | A wide cell on top, three squares in a row underneath | A group shot over three close-ups |
| Big bottom | Three squares on top, a wide cell underneath | Three moments that lead to one result |
| Mosaic | Wide and narrow on the first row, narrow and wide on the second | A mix of landscape and portrait photos |
Switching templates keeps your photos, their order and their framing. The first photo in the strip always takes the first cell, which in the featured templates is the big one.
Picking photos
Making a 4 picture collage that holds together
A grid gives every picture the same weight, so any photo that does not match stands out. A little consistency goes a long way.
- Same distance: Four close-ups or four wide shots look like a set. Three faces and a landscape look like a mistake.
- Same light: One photo much darker than the rest pulls the eye to its corner. If it has to be in, put it bottom right, where people look last.
- A natural order: Morning to night, spring to winter, before to after. People read a 2x2 like a page, so let the story run the same way.
- A shared colour: Four photos with the same red jacket or the same sea feel planned, even when they were not.
Got two landscape photos and two portrait ones? Pick Mosaic and put the landscapes first and last in the strip, so they take the two wide cells.
Printing
Printing a 4 photo collage
A 2x2 with a white frame is made for paper. Two settings decide whether the print comes out sharp and uncropped.
Export at Full size, which keeps as much detail as your photos have, and choose PNG or JPG. The 1080p option is sized for screens and looks soft once it is bigger than a postcard.
Match the shape to the paper before you download. Square suits square prints and frames, and Portrait 4:5 matches an 8x10 print, so nothing gets trimmed at the shop.
4 photo collage: common questions
Short answers about putting four photos in one image.
Drop four photos on this page. The Even template puts them in two rows of two straight away, with a white frame around them.
Drag thumbnails to change the order, then download.
The page opens at 2% of the shorter side, which reads as a clean frame on a phone. For a print, 3% to 4% looks closer to a real mat.
Past about 6% the lines start to compete with the photos, so use that only when the frame is the look you want.
Yes. Pick Big left, Big right, Big top or Big bottom, and the first photo in the strip takes a cell two thirds of the collage.
The other three share what is left, stacked or side by side depending on the template.
Choose a shape that matches your paper, export at Full size as PNG or JPG, and send that file to your printer or print shop.
Square for square prints, Portrait 4:5 for an 8x10.
Yes. Open Lines and use Line colour. Black gives a gallery look, and a colour picked from one of the photos ties the four together.
The background colour is a separate setting, used only where a photo does not fill its cell.
In the square grid, each photo fills its cell and you drag to choose what shows. Landscapes lose some of their sides, portraits some of their top and bottom.
To keep more of each, pick Mosaic and put the two landscapes first and last, or switch a photo to Fit whole image.
Four photos. One square. Done.
Drop four photos and get a framed 2x2 collage you can post or print. Free, no account, no watermark.