How to make a photo collage PDF

Turn a pile of photos into a clean, multi-page A4 PDF in about five minutes — in your browser, with no account and no software to install.

Most people reach for this when they need photos in a document rather than in an album: a rental inspection record, a warranty claim with receipts, a school project, a travel scrapbook, or a set of reference images to print. Photo apps make grids; word processors fight you on image placement. This tool sits in between — free positioning on a real A4 page, exported as a PDF anyone can open.

Open the editor →

Step 1: Upload your images

Click Upload Images and pick your photos. You can select several at once, and you can come back and add more at any point. Each new image lands near the top of the page, offset slightly from the last so nothing hides underneath.

Any image format your browser can display will work — JPEG, PNG, WebP, GIF.

Photos from an iPhone

iPhones save photos as HEIC by default, a format most tools reject outright. You can upload HEIC and HEIF files directly here. They are converted to JPEG in your browser before anything else happens, so there is no separate conversion step and nothing to install.

Step 2: Arrange them on the page

The white sheet in the middle is a real A4 page. Whatever you see there is what lands in the PDF.

Move — drag an image anywhere on the page.
Resize — select it, then drag one of the corner handles.
Rotate — use the rotation control to angle it, which is what makes a layout look like a scrapbook rather than a spreadsheet.
Overlap — images can sit on top of each other, so you can tuck corners under one another.

There is no grid and no snapping. That means a little more work for a tidy layout, and far less fighting when you want something deliberately loose.

Step 3: Add text

Click Add Text to drop a text box on the page. Type your caption, then set the font size and colour and drag it into position. Text sits above your images, so you can caption a photo directly or label a section.

Click an existing text box to edit it again — captions stay editable for as long as you have the page open.

Step 4: Add more pages

Click Add Page for a fresh blank A4 sheet, and use the arrows to move between pages. There is no page limit, though very large collages are worth splitting up — see the note below.

Step 5: Export your PDF

Click Download PDF. Each page is rendered at A4 size (210 × 297 mm) and the finished file downloads to your device, ready to print, email, or attach.

If a large collage fails to export: there is a size ceiling on how much image data can be sent for rendering in one go. If an export doesn't complete, split the collage across two exports, or reduce the number of very large photos on a single page. Images are already compressed before upload, so this only tends to bite with a lot of high-resolution photos at once.

Tips for a collage that prints well

Leave a margin. Home printers rarely print edge to edge. Keep anything important a centimetre or so away from the page edge.
Fewer, larger images read better. Six photos on a page is usually more legible in print than fifteen.
Keep rotation slight. Two or three degrees looks deliberate; fifteen looks like an accident.
Caption as you go. Adding text after every image or two is quicker than trying to remember which photo was which at the end.
Start from the biggest photo. Place your anchor image first, then fit the rest around it.

What it costs

Nothing. There is no account, no sign-up, no watermark on the output, and no page or export limit.

Start making your collage →