Shape Collage Help

Quick Start

Instructional Video


How to make a collage with Shape Collage

Step 1: Add Photos

Add a photo album of pictures for the photo collage

Drag and drop photos or a folder
of photos into the photo box

Step 2: Click Create

Make the photo collage using the photo collage software

The collage will be automatically created

Step 3: Done!

The photography collage is complete and is ready for photo printing, editing, cards, scrapbook, and slideshow

Print it, post it online, put it in a scrapbook, or add it to a slideshow

Bonus: Different Shapes

Create professional looking custom digital photography collages in different shapes

Make a heart, spell a word, use a symbol, or draw your own shape!

Add Photos

  1. Drag & Drop
  2. Click "+" button
  3. File->Add Photos
  4. Add From Web
  5. Drag & Drop from Picasa and iPhoto

Shape

  1. Premade
  2. Text
  3. Draw
  4. Import

More Shapes

See the shapes gallery for some shapes that you can download and load into the "Custom Shape" window.

If you want a more powerful drawing program than Shape Collage's built in drawing tool, you can create your own shape using any drawing program, such as Microsoft PaintBrush or Adobe Photoshop. Just save the black and white shape as a PNG file and load it in the "Custom Shape" window.

Size

The size and apperance of the collage is defined by 4 parameters:
  1. Collage size
  2. Photo size
  3. # Photos
  4. Photo spacing
Any 3 of these parameters must be set, and the last one is automatically calculated.

Customization

  1. Background: Color, Transparent, Photo
  2. Border Color and Size
  3. Rotation
  4. Shadows
  5. Jagged

Advanced Techniques

  1. PSD
  2. After Effects