Collage & send

Support wants one image. Collage the four site shots, or send a PDF?

They said one file. You have four photos from the site. The chat will not take the album. The job is not a prettier grid — it is whether these frames should leave as one picture, and whether that picture still needs a PDF.

Support said one image only. You have four or five shots from the site. The group chat will not take the album. Before you merge a PDF or compress, decide: should these frames leave as one picture, and does that picture still need a PDF?

If they only take one file, collage first. Collage is one finished image — many in, one out — not a batch of separate exports. Each source at or under 20MB. Need pages they can flip? Go PDF. Stay local.

Should these shots leave as one image?

Match the send, then decide. A chat or a support desk that has one slot wants one picture. Four site photos that will not go through as an album are the same job. A portal that wants page 1, page 2, page 3 wants a PDF — do not glue them onto one canvas and hope they count as pages. Still holding iPhone .heic? Convert first with the HEIC to JPG walkthrough, then come back. Collage reads JPG / PNG / WebP / GIF.

ImageAwe Collage is one finished image. Many frames in, one export out — not one result per photo. Keep each source at or under 20MB. Preview and export stay in the browser.

One collage, or a multi-page PDF?

Gluing frames onto one canvas is not stacking pages:

  • Collage — one page, one preview. Support sees four shots at once. This is the “one image” job.
  • PDF — they flip page by page. Use the merge guide when the form wants pages, not a grid.
  • Do not collage hoping it becomes pages. A finished collage is still one image. Need both? Collage for the chat, PDF for the portal — two different sends.

Make the one image on this device

Open Collage and treat the four shots as one send:

  1. Drop at least two JPG, PNG, WebP, or GIF files — the site shots, not a folder of unrelated albums. Keep each source at or under 20MB. Collage merges: many in, one finished image out. Still holding iPhone .heic? Convert first with the HEIC to JPG walkthrough, then come back.
  2. Pick a strip, a grid, or a template. Reorder so the shot they asked for sits first. A sideways frame? Straighten it first with the scan rotate walkthrough — do not collage a landscape contract hoping it stands up.
  3. Download the single finished image. The local originals are not overwritten. Preview and export stay in the browser.

Open Collage →

ImageAwe collages in the browser on this device. Site shots and chat photos stay local. There is no upload step.

One image is ready — what still blocks the send?

  • The desk wants pages they can flip, not a grid — skip the collage and stack with the merge guide.
  • The chat still rejects the file for size — follow the target-KB walkthrough on the finished collage, not four loose originals.
  • The next public folder still needs a shop name — stamp the one image with the watermark walkthrough.
  • A shot is still sideways — straighten first with the scan rotate walkthrough, then collage.

Wrap-up

They only take one image because the slot is one file. Collage first when the send is one picture. Need pages? Go PDF. Each source at or under 20MB. Not a batch. HEIC first. Stay local.

Extra

After you collage

If I drop four photos, do I get four separate exports?

No. Collage is one finished image: many frames in, one page out. That is a merge on a canvas, not the “one result per file” behavior of compress or rotate. Need several independent pictures? Do not collage — send or compress them one by one.

After I collage, should I still turn it into a PDF?

Only if the next desk wants pages they can flip. A collage is still one image. A form that wants page 1, page 2, page 3 should get a PDF of the originals — follow the merge guide. Do not glue four shots and hope the portal counts them as pages.

How large can each source photo be?

Keep each source at or under 20MB. Collage reads JPG / PNG / WebP / GIF. Still holding iPhone .heic? Convert first, then come back. The finished collage can be larger than one shot — compress that export if the chat still rejects the size.

Does collaging upload my files?

No. Layout and export run in the browser on this device. Site shots and chat photos stay local. There is no “upload first, collage later” step.