How to put two photos in one picture
- Choose the two photos. Drop both on the collage or press Choose photos. The first one opened goes on the left or on top; you can swap them in a second.
- Pick the pairing. Side by side for two of equal weight, Lead and follow when one photo matters more, Banner and base when one is a wide scene and the other a close-up.
- Pick the shape. Square, tall post or story in the Layout step. Side by side turns into one over the other on a story, because two slices of a tall frame are too thin to read.
- Save it. Press Save. The file is drawn again from your two originals at full size, with no camera or location details copied in.
Two photos, five ways of pairing them
A two-photo collage is almost always a comparison — before and after, then and now, the two of you — and the layout decides which way the comparison reads. Side by side asks the eye to go back and forth, so it suits two pictures of the same size and weight. One over one reads top to bottom, like a caption under a picture, and works best when the top photo sets the scene.
Lead and follow gives one photo about two thirds of the room. That is the layout for a portrait with a detail beside it, or a group photo with one candid shot. Banner and base does the opposite job: a thin wide strip above a big picture, which is how a landscape and a person sit together without either being cropped to a sliver.
Split corner to corner cuts the frame along its own diagonal, so each photo gets a triangle. It suits a before and after, or two people facing each other. The gap and the outer edge work along the diagonal too, and the cut always runs from corner to corner of whatever shape you pick.
What each shape does to a pair
Every layout here has three maps drawn by hand, not one map stretched. On the square and the tall post, side by side means two columns. On a story, two columns would each be 540 pixels wide and 1920 tall, which no ordinary photo fills, so the story map stacks them instead. Your photos and their framing come with you when you change shape.
If the two photos are very different shapes — a panorama and a portrait — the How much of this photo shows figure in the slot panel says what share of each one survives, and the Best fit button in Layout swaps them into the slots that keep more of each.
| Layout | Square | Story |
|---|---|---|
| Side by side | Two columns | Two bands |
| One over one | Two bands | 55 / 45 bands |
| Lead and follow | 64 / 36 columns | 70 / 30 bands |
| Banner and base | 34 / 66 bands | 42 / 58 columns |
| Split corner to corner | Two triangles | Two triangles |
Questions people ask about this one
Can I put two photos in one frame without a gap?
Yes. Set Gap and Outer edge to zero in the Style step, or pick the Seamless style family, and the two photos meet edge to edge.
Is this the same as merging two photos?
It places two photos next to each other in one picture. It does not blend them or stitch a panorama; each photo stays whole in its own slot.
Which photo goes in the bigger slot?
The first one you open goes in slot 1. Drag either photo onto the other to swap them, or press Best fit for each photo in the Layout step to let the layout decide by shape.
Are my two photos uploaded anywhere?
No. They are read into this tab, drawn on your screen and saved back to your device. Nothing about them is sent to a server.
What size is the saved picture?
1080 pixels wide for the social shapes — 1080 × 1080, 1080 × 1350 or 1080 × 1920 — and up to 2480 × 3508 for A4 if you pick a print size.