Plus, you can post a single picture or combine several images into a photo collage before sharing. Making a photo collage saves your followers time as they don’t have to go through dozens of separate Stories.
In this article, we’ll show you how to put multiple pictures on your Instagram Story. Let’s dive in.
Ways to Create a Photo Collage for Instagram Stories
There are three ways to make a photo collage to share on your Instagram Story. You can create an Instagram Story collage by using stickers, layout mode, or third-party collage creation apps.
We’ll go through each method in detail. Let’s start with the first one, using stickers.
1. How to Make a Photo Collage Using Stickers
This is the easiest method to make a photo collage to add to your Instagram Stories. The only downside is this method only works on iOS at the time of writing in September 2021. Follow these steps to create your collage:
Inside Instagram, tap Your Story and take a picture. Don’t worry about taking a perfect shot; this will be a background to the photo collage. Edit your image to suit your taste by using available tools like the airbrush tool. To completely hide the background image, tap the airbrush tool, select a color, and then mask the image using the brush. Exit Instagram but don’t close the app. Basically, go to your phone’s home screen. Open the Photos app or camera roll on your iPhone. Tap on any photo to add to your Instagram Story. Tap the Share icon at the bottom and select Copy Photo. 3 Images Close Go back to Instagram. The app should still be on the Story creation page. Instagram will almost instantly show you an Add sticker pop-up with the copied photo inside. Tap the image to add it to your Story. If the pop-up disappears before you tap it, select the text option (Aa) in the upper right. Next, tap and hold the screen, and select Paste to add your image. With the image now on your Story, you can reposition, resize, and even rotate it to your preference. Once done, follow the same procedure to add more images to your collage as you please. 2 Images Close
If you use an Android phone, use the rest of the remaining two methods to make a collage.
2. How to Make a Photo Collage Using Layout Mode
Layout mode is another feature that you can use to create a collage. Like using stickers, you also don’t need to download an additional app to create a collage. The best thing is the method works across Android and iOS.
Here’s how you can create your collage using Instagram’s Layout mode:
Tap Your Story to open the Stories section. Tap Layout on the left-side menu to enter Layout mode. Tap Change Grid to select your layout of choice. The number of photos you wish to add to your collage should guide you. If you have six photos, go for the six-grid layout option. Remember, you can’t change the layout after this stage. 3 Images Close Tap the + icon at the bottom to add a photo to your grid. Alternatively, tap the usual camera shutter button to take a picture. Repeat until you fill all the grids. Tap the checkmark icon at the bottom once done. Finally, use different editing features inside Stories to make your collage pop.
That’s how you make a collage using Instagram’s layout mode Stories. The third and final way to create a collage is by using third-party apps.
3. How to Make a Photo Collage Using Third-Party Apps
There are lots of third-party apps that you can use to create a photo collage. The best thing about third-party apps is their versatility. These apps offer so many extra features that you may otherwise not find baked inside Instagram.
But, you should only go for them if you don’t mind an extra download.
We have summarized some of the best photo collage apps for Android and iOS to save you precious time digging through hundreds of options.
Share Multiple Photos in One Instagram Story Using Photo Collages
We’ve all seen Instagram Story updates that are just too many to go through. The ones you start to watch and get bored on the way. Use collages to avoid such scenarios by sharing more than just a single photo per Instagram Story update. We’ve listed three different ways to create a collage. There’s no excuse.
Sharing photo collages on your Instagram is just one way, however. There are more ways to spice up your Instagram experience.
