Arranging several photos into a neat collage usually means manually cropping and resizing each one until the proportions roughly match.
Canva's grid elements handle the proportions automatically — you just drag a photo into each frame.
Here's the trick:
Grids hold multiple images in place at fixed proportions — swap a photo in without breaking the layout.
How to use it
- Go to Elements and search "Grids."
- Drag a grid layout onto your canvas.
- Drag a photo from your uploads directly onto one of the grid's frames — it snaps into that shape automatically.
- Repeat for each frame; resize the whole grid at once and every photo adjusts proportionally with it.
Where it helps most
Photo collages, before-and-after comparisons, or a tidy row of product shots, without manually cropping and resizing each image to match.
One thing to watch for
Swapping a photo already placed in a grid frame means dragging a new one directly on top of it — deleting the frame first removes the shape, not just the photo.
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