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Photo Collages and Mosaics

Make Digital Photo Collages
One photo is fun and two photos are more fun so a photo collage is a ton of fun. Services like Design A Mosaic, College.com, Pixisnap, Picartia, Picture2Life and PhotoVisi can help you to easily make great free collages. On your computer and on your iPhone - there are a growing number of collage makers. Turn you collages into posters; post them on your own website or your Facebook or MySpace pages; print them out - there are a ton of ways to have fun with photo collages. They are especially awesome gifts if you make a collage of a party or a trip and share it with all the other folks who were there with you.
Collage.com - Photo canvases, photo blankets and photo greeting cards!

I thought I had tried out all the photo collage tools out there, but a reader left me a comment about collage.com and I was amazed! This website lets you upload pictures, make them into a shape collage, and order high-quality prints. You can share Collage.com collages online for free on Facebook or via a direct link. Each collage can include hundreds of pictures arranged however you like.
I love the variety of shapes - wedding, wedding kiss, US map, paw, wedding cake, mountain, tree and even a teddy bear! Other services have some interesting shapes but the technology that differentiates Collage.com from other software is its patent-pending auto-placement engine. Collage.com will automatically arrange photos to cover any shape without gaps or overlapping - something you can't get anywhere else!
But that isn't all. Collage.com also lets you place photos anywhere you want. It will automatically adjust surrounding photos to eliminate gaps and overlapping, leaving a picture-perfect shape collage!
Photo Collage Frame Ideas

This collage is a great frame for a collection of small 4 by 6 photos. Melannco has other frame sizes too.
Print Mosaic - Beautiful mosaics from any images

PrintMosaic.com focuses on using your photos from Facebook, Instagram or Dropbox. In the above example 481 photos were used to create this mosaic and in the inset you can see several individual photos. You can view the mosaic online and even print it WORLDWIDE via the Peecho printing option. I like this application for ease of use and I used it for those photos I had already stored on Dropbox. Likewise, if your photos are on Facebook, Instagram or Dropbox it could be a great service for you!
Shape College's Loupe - Your collage, Your SHAPE!

Like most collage programs, Loupe organizes a bunch of photos into a certain shape. But beyond that, Loupe gets better and better. If you are not satisfied with the automatic result you can edit the collage: delete a specific photo and move images across the shape any way you want. And Loupe tops most other programs with a wide range of shapes. There are animals, hearts, geometrical shapes, characters from multiple languages and even ASCII characters! In addition, you can arrange images into any word or phrase.
Picisto - Create photo collages and vision boards

Picisto is a very easy to use online tool that allows anyone to easily create photo collages and vision boards. Choose a layout. Upload your photos, import them from Facebook, grab them from Instagram, use your video cam - it's easy to import your photos into Picisto. Add text and shapes if you want. When you are all done you can order photos, download your images and even share them with friends. It's free to signup and there is even a demo you can use before signing up.
Photo Collage - Match Your Trip Photos with over 30 Countries

Picture2Life has a great collage feature that gives you the option to pick your photos and then pick a country shape (more than 30 available and more are being added). This is a great way to celebrate a trip to that country or recognize your home country.
Collages
What Photos Are You Looking to Collage?

Shake and Collage
Mixel collages on your iPhone
Mixel is the EASIEST, FASTEST collage and framing app for your photos. You can choose from nine styles for your collages. You can grab your photos from Facebook, Instagram or your iPhone.
Showing the value of Mixel it has been acquired. Etsy, the online marketplace for buying and selling crafts and homemade goods, announced it has acquired the team behind Mixel, the iOS app for creating photo collages.
Mosaically - Mosaically to discover, make, share, and sell photo mosaic art.

Mosaically's Online Photo Mosaic Maker software lets you choose the big, main picture and the small, tile pictures to make your photo mosaic collage art within minutes. Then you can share it with your friends online for free, order prints, download digital files, or sell it online or offline for profit or fundraising.
Mosaically Tutorial - So Easy to Make a Mosaic
Shape Collage Goes Online - Grab photos from the web and make your collage!

Shape Collage Online is a web application that takes photos from anywhere on the web and automatically creates a photo collage in a number of different shapes, such as a rectangle, heart, cat, or a word. These collages can then be posted on a blog, website, emailed, used as a desktop wallpaper, etc. Amazingly easy to create collages!
Besides the aesthetic nature of these collages, they can also serve as image browsing tools because the individual photos in these online collages can be clicked to take you to the high resolution photo or the webpage that was linked to by the original image. This is particularly interesting when you use images from sites like YouTube, Amazon, eBay, or news websites, because it lets you visually scan through a large number of videos, shopping items, or news articles very quickly, and then you can click on the ones that interest you.
Zumyn

Zumyn Mosaics are a great way of marking a special occasion like a wedding or a graduation. You can add all the photos yourself, or set one up so that family and friends can contribute theirs – the choice is yours. You can create your collage online, and if you want (optional) Zumyn to print your collage the service is available worldwide. And, in case you were wondering, zumyn is pronounced "zoom-in."

Photovisi
If you want to make nice photo collages check out Photovisi.com is a new online collage maker that lets you quickly create beautiful collages using photos stored on your computer or your Flickr account. It is amazingly easy to use and even allows you to decide in what resolution to save your collages.
Pic-Collage

Over 10 MILLION people LOVE PicCollage because it's fast, fun and easy. It's the best way to create pretty collages of your friends and favorite things using stickers, text, web images and freeform cut-outs! Import photos from your photo library, your Facebook albums (and your friends' albums too), or use photos from the web to create a collage.

CollageWord (tm)
Choose from standard text (Mom, Dad, Family, Friends, Congrats!) or just create your own text. Then upload your photos and watch them collaged into the shape of your words! A great gift!
Image Mosaic Generator - The Simplest Mosaic Builder - Upload and Click

Mazaika - Mazaika Photo mosaic software

Using Mazaika you can make professional looking mosaic pictures from almost any kind and type of image files. Mazaika is the ONLY photo mosaic application that allows manual changes to every single tile in the finished mosaic. If you don't like an image, substitute it with another matching candidate image! You could even insert specific images as a sort of personal signature, or as a hidden picture riddle (as in a "Where are they?" puzzle book). Or you might need to make sure that a particularly well-liked image is not passed over as a tile; for example that Uncle Bob appears somewhere in your final mosaic. Wherea most of the mosaic and collage tools we have reviewed are web based, Mazaika is released as shareware software you download - including a free trial version.
Mazaika Photo Mosaic Software
Pho.to Photo Editor - Collages, Avatars, Photo Touchup and more

Want to make a flower, a heart or butterfly from your photo collection? Use templates from this group to make amazing photo collages. There are many collage services with more features, but Pho.to has some of the best shape options.
Tucia Photo Touch-Up - Photo Enhancements available worldwide

I love editing photos, but when you have the photos say from a wedding, a reunion or a graduation you might want a professional touch. Tucia can add a person into a family portrait or remove an unwanted stranger from your photo. They can digitally open up closed eyes or fix hair. They can also offer glamorize and digital cosmetic enhancement options - get a tan, clear acne or remove braces. Simple touch-ups such as digital camera mark or red eye removal and cropping are also available.
Create a photo mosaic online? EasyMoza!

EasyMoza is a online programme with which you can easily make your own photo mosaic. If you like the result, it is possible to save your photo mosaic to your computer. After that you can print your photo mosaic anywhere you want. This way EasyMoza is a lot cheaper than other suppliers.
EasyMoza
Live Collage - Google London
More Collage Sites Popping Up
I will collect new sites here and then review them as time permits.
- Fotonea - Collage Made Simple
Fotonea.com allows everyone to easily create beautiful collages from photos and add texts. You don't need Photoshop or other software, all that is needed is modern browser. Created collage can be saved to your computer, and later uploaded to you blog - Photo Collage Online
This Photo collage site lets you instantly create Great Photo collage online free, right now! Just upload pictures or create you own photo folders and use it for other Photo Collages. For creating photo collages you don't need photoshop now. You can - Pixiz - Create your own montages
Create your own photo montage using our PhotoCollage tool! - CollageIt is a Free Photo Collage Maker for Mac OS X & Windows
Make photo collages on Mac OS X & Windows for free. CollageIt is an easy-to-use photo collage maker for Mac OS X & Windows, which makes collage automatically. Unlike most services I review this is software you download to your computer.

Picture2Life Collages
Full photo editing PLUS collage maker
Create Collages. Sometimes one picture just doesn't say it all. Think of a collage as a picture of pictures! You can create as many collages as you like with your favorite pictures, choose from over 200 different, customizable, styles and layouts!
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What say ye?
Nice list @EditPhotos! I would also recommend TurboMosaic for photo mosaics: http://www.turbomosaic.com and TurboCollage for photo collages: http://www.turbocollage.com
I really like CollageIt, especially for the selection of layouts it provides. It's a cool app for Mac users.
I also use PhotoVideoCollage as a mobile collage maker. It's a lesser known app, but great for making collages from photos and videos. It's free, so who's interested can check it out on http://photovideocollage.com/videocollage.html.
We have been around before nearly all and our work speaks for it as to why we are so successful. Professional Photo Collages ProCollage® invites you and your visitors to view our picture collages & photo mosaics. Thank you! Commendations on your vast collection of resources.
wow. I have to look into this. You give lots of info and resources, great detailed lens.
I am building a website that generates collages of your Instagram photos. Please feel free to visit www.instayearbook.com to give it a try.
What a great way to make some art for your home. I would love to do this to my vacations photos.
Your lenses always provide great value.
This looks like fun. I am certainly going to try this.
Interesting information, great tips, and worthy of purple stardom, blessed.
These are so cool! I'm glad I find this article.
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Great lens and wonderful information and resources. Featured on Blessed by Skiesgreen 2013 and also on Photography.
Thanks for doing this lens as I am working on a couple Christmas presents of my grandchildren for their parents and some of these might help.
You have some great information here. What a fun lens.
Awesome work!
Amazing tips for making photo collages! Thanks.
That's funny because I was just trying to make up my own collage with some photos. The thing is I want to do it myself, stupid I know. But is more of a challenge than having someone else do it for me. congrats on purple star
this page is really cool nice work on it
I am a big sports fan and the Tabblo-Poster Collages would be ideal...I hope HP brings the service back. Very useful list of photo editing softwares and services.
It can easily combine several digital photos into one, copying part of one photo and pasting it into another by using your image-editing software.
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A photo collage makes a great gift, and you never tire of looking at them. great lens!
Amazing what you can do with photos! Thank you for visiting and blessing my "Motion Mindset" lens!
Wow, love the photo effects. Great info on photo collage!
Great lens, nicely done! Squidlike
got to love a collage!
Great tips for making photo collages! Thumbs up.
Fantastic. Love the way you have presented this material and the information is simply great, Featured on Blessed by Skiesgreen 2012-2 and also on Photography. Hugs
I had no idea that I could make a photo mosaic myself & that there was software & online services to do it! Yahoooo!
Thanks for sharing all these software solutions! I use GIMP but that might not be so user-friendly for collage making...
I had no idea there were so many ways to make a photo collage, I can't wait to try some of them out!
Great lens!
I love photo mosaics and have had one of a lion on my wall for years. Some great ideas here! I'll be back.
Awesome lens. Great info. Thanks for creating it
A new site for creating photo collages in your browser is Picisto.
Wow!!!!
Great looking lens! I love it!
Nothing better than collaging on a rainy day.
It seems that you are good at collage.
always wanted to do this!
Wow! I didn't know there was a free tool to make photo mosaics. That's really cool
Great lens ! Useful and informative.
This was a well written lens. Thanks for sharing.
Interesting ways to use pictures. Thanks for sharing.
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Amazing lens! Great tips and awesome info, thanks!
Looks like this would be a lot of fun to do. Thanks for the ideas and resources. Blessed.
Way cool !
You have just opened a door I never knew existed! How fun, creative, entertaining, and exciting! Thanks for a great lens!!
A great resource page for making photo collages. Found this page on a page by Kim Manley Ort.
Impressive. Thank you.
Fascinating stuff!! thanks for sharing... ;-)
great lesson on collages, and fabulous resources.
Thanks
Good resourse
Wow a great lens lots of information here.
Whoa! This lens is jampacked with amazing info about photo collages. I didn't even know that these many tools existed. Thanks a lot for sharing such useful info. Great work.
Great list of resources for collages, thank you
Great lens
I enjoy your lenses so much! Bookmark all of them! Thanks for all the tips for FUN! Blessed!
Wonderful lense. Fastest way to create photo collages that's hard to do on Photoshop
Your lenses are always full of such great and useful information, thanks so much :)
I liked everything! Similarly, buy a good camera!
I love all your photo editing pages.. It's fun to try the different ones out.
Great photo collage resources. I've been wanting to create one. Thanks!
I have never looked into make photo collage but its a great idea for a unique holiday gift for family.
Thanks for stopping by and blessing my lens on Fairy Houses. =)
Guess what I am going to try this afternoon! Looks great fun & thanks for sharing!
Loved the Google timelapse video, nice addition to the lens
Good lens
I'm going to try this out and surprise my wife with a wedding pictures collage. Thanks for sharing all of these resources I had not heard of previously.
These are amazing!
a simple word to say; incredible lens....
Very cool. I heart mosaics. I like how you made a table. Liken' your lens. Hopen' you like mine back. Have a good weekend.
Great lens, enjoyed it very much. Great tips and appreciate the links for ShapeCollage Online, Photovisi and Picture2LifeCollages. Will check them out. Thank you for sharing.
Question: how did you create the table in the intro module of this lens? (feature, design, etc.). Really like it.
Excellent I always wondered how to do this.
great tips... thanks for the digital tools
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Excellent lens. I learned a lot and will be using collages soon. Thanks. Blessed and bear hugs, Frankie
Hi! This is an amazing and Awesome lens and very informative too. Thanks for sharing such a nice lens. Nicely done, Keep up your great work!
Thanks for the great post..Nice
Hey Good article i like this :) I just printed my collage photo book from adoramapix. This lens was useful
This is a great lens, lots of resources! I like making real mosaics with china, but oh these look like great fun with photos. I'm probably going to have to try it. Thank you so much!
I'd love to make some mosaics. So cool! Thanks for the info!
Looks like a great lens to get into family collages, thanks!
Great and very useful lens! Thanks for sharing :)
Great lens! loved it!
@EditPhotos: Thanks dude! We will get back to you when we have a more polished product :)
Please check our new free online photo mosaic creation tool at http://picmos.me
You will be able to easily create any picture mosaic using the profile pictures of your friends.
Awesome lens on making photo collages, and cool software! I can't wait to try out some of the software you mentioned. This really is a great-looking lens. I know you put many hours of work into this lens doing a lot of research, and making it look great!
Wow, Awesome Lens!!! Loaded with tons of information. Great Job! :)
Wow! This is really awesome... I may use this for our next anniversary or something, I especially like the couple mosaic under the Design A Mosaic section. I really amazing lens!
Nice lens. I love this len.
Okay, you got me ! My mom is a 'photo junkie' and she would just burst with joy if I whipped together a 'photo mosaic'.
Thanks so much for this lens and all the possibilities that's presented here. And for sure, my mom will be thanking you when I complete the project ! 8o)
Nice lens. I'm uploading small photos on EasyMoza as I comment!
Fantastic lens...so many choices.....don't know where to start. Thanks so much for all of this information. I'm so glad I found your lenses. Will definitely be back to many of them.
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