Who doesn’t love making photo collage, whether on a sheet of paper, a big canvas, mobile phone, tablets or computer. Almost all of us love making them.

The traditional way of making a collage is to take or cut out pictures and glue them on a clean canvas with a plain or patterned background. But using the computer to create a digital collage from photos gives a whole new experience, and you can include a variety of options being offered to you by advanced technological features. One of such advanced features is making a collage in shapes, not in just a circle, square or oval, but unbelievably in symbols and shapes of currency, numbers, butterfly, heart and what not. Isn’t it amazing?

Yes, and you can avail this opportunity freely at www.shapecollage.com — a site that gives picture collages a completely new meaning.

Making a collage is a simple craft activity, but by exploring various features on Shapecollage, the activity becomes quite productive as it enhances your design and layout skills, encourages creative expression and actively engages you to bring out your ‘inner artist’.

So as you open the site, all you have to do is download the free programme for Mac OS, Windows, Linux, iPhone, and iPad.

After downloading and installing it on any of your device, open it, then drag images into the window and choose the collage shape from a variety of choices given to you for instance, paws, cat, snowman, smiley face or even words. And if you are still not happy with the shapes offered to you, you have the option to create and customise your own shape and then export them to Photoshop.

One of the good things about Shapecollage is that unlike other similar sites, it doesn’t include company watermarks in any collages that you make. So you can feel free to share your creativity. Though the site is very simple to work with, you can still watch the demo video for tips and tricks.

So what are you waiting for? Make a collage of your images into a variety of shapes at www.shapecollage.com

Published in Dawn, Young World, February 26th, 2022