Story Collage
Choose who it’s for, add 4 to 40 photos, and the layout is solved for them: shapes, faces, dates and resolution. Printed on fine-art paper, 30×40 to 75×100 cm.
Start with your story →4 to 40 photos · JPEG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, HEIC
Every face, every photo and every cell checked at the size you order.
Order by 5 December for Christmas delivery. The digital file arrives within minutes either way.
Phone photos, as they came
The finished print, as it will hang
13 photos · 47 faces kept whole · 45×60 cm on fine-art paper
Most collage tools give you a grid and a slider. The print then has three familiar problems: a face cut by a cell edge, a small photo enlarged until it blurs, and a dozen photos that each look like a different camera. Story Collage treats all three as rules rather than warnings.
Faces are detected on our server and padded; no arrangement that would crop one is ever shown. Each photo must print at 110 pixels per inch or better at the size you order, so small photos get small cells. Colour is balanced across the set in Lab space with skin tones protected.
Four sizes, all 3:4, portrait or landscape: 30×40, 45×60, 60×80 and 75×100 cm, printed at 100 pixels per centimetre on fine-art paper by a German fine-art lab and shipped worldwide. The digital file is included with every print and emailed within minutes of payment; on its own it is €19.95.
Before you pay you see a proof at print scale, with a loupe for any cell and the trim line drawn. The file sent to the lab is generated from the same layout you approved; the order carries its fingerprint.
With fewer than four photos a single fine-art print shows them better, and we say so. With more than forty, a photo mosaic, where hundreds of photos form one portrait, is the better object, and the page points you to it. Between four and forty, this is the print to make.
You pick the story. The story sets the spacing, the typeface, the hero size and the order of the photos. There are no templates to browse.
Old scans and phone photos together, one line for the name and dates. A hero portrait, the rest in the order of a life.
Name · 1941–2026 See the In memory collage →
For an anniversary, a wedding or the two of you. One or two hero photos, the rest as a ribbon of moments.
Anna & Jón · 14.06.2016 See the Love collage →
A year, a holiday or three generations. Tighter spacing, the photo with the most faces leads, everything in date order.
Family 2026 See the Family collage →Nothing here is a filter or a template. These are rules the layout engine cannot break, checked again on the server before anything is printed.
Every face is detected on our server and padded. A crop or a pan can never bring a face to the edge of its cell, and no face sits within 10 mm of the trim. There is no override.
Every placed photo must print at 110 pixels per inch or better. Small WhatsApp or Instagram photos go into smaller cells on their own; a photo that cannot print sharp is set aside, not stretched.
Photos are read for date and time and laid out in sequence. Near-duplicates are grouped and the sharpest kept, screenshots are set aside, and the photo with the most faces or the best light becomes the hero.
Phone and camera photos are balanced toward each other in Lab colour, skin tones protected, so a 2009 compact and a 2026 iPhone sit together. Natural or black and white, your choice.
One layout file drives the preview in your browser, the proof you approve and the file we send to the lab. Gutters are exact to the pixel, the paper is a warm white, and the order carries the fingerprint of the proof you saw.
Sizes are 3:4, portrait or landscape, printed at 100 pixels per centimetre. The ranges below keep every photo large enough to look at.
| Size | Inches | Photos | Fine-art paper |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30 × 40 cm | ≈ 12 × 16 in | 4–12 | €39 |
| 45 × 60 cm | ≈ 18 × 24 in | 9–20 | €49 |
| 60 × 80 cm | ≈ 24 × 31 in | 15–30 | €85 |
| 75 × 100 cm | ≈ 30 × 39 in | 20–40 | €129 |
Every print includes the digital file. The digital file on its own is €19.95, emailed within minutes of payment. Portrait or landscape: the engine picks a default from your photos and you can flip it.
Fine-art paper, printed by a German fine-art lab and shipped worldwide. No percentage sales, ever.
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Four sizes from 30×40 to 75×100 cm. The digital file is included.
€19.95
Any size, 100 px/cm, sRGB. Emailed within minutes. Print it anywhere.
Not in this release. Fine-art paper first; canvas follows once we are happy with the wrap.
Yes. The digital file is sRGB at 100 pixels per centimetre for the size you chose and prints well at any lab or print shop. It is included with every paper order and available on its own for €19.95.
Between 4 and 40 placed photos. The sweet spot is 9 to 25. You can upload up to 200; the engine picks a set that spreads across the dates, and everything else waits in a tray with a reason, so nothing is lost.
JPEG, PNG, WebP, AVIF and HEIC straight from an iPhone. Live Photos are taken as stills. Scans of old prints work well; we read the orientation and colour profile of every file.
No. Faces are detected on our server, padded, and treated as a hard rule: the layout engine rejects any arrangement that would cut one, and your own panning and zooming stop before a face reaches the edge. If a photo cannot be placed without cutting a face at a given size, it moves to the tray with that reason.
Each photo must print at 110 pixels per inch or better at the size you order. Small WhatsApp or Instagram photos are placed in smaller cells automatically. Anything under 700 pixels on its short side is kept out of the print, and the size cards tell you when a larger print would push photos into the tray.
Yes, within the rules. Swap two photos, make one the hero, pan and zoom inside a cell, add or remove from the tray, and ask for another arrangement as often as you like. Undo is unlimited. There are no spacing sliders, stickers or backgrounds; the story sets those.
One line, up to 48 characters, in one of four lettering styles (Classic, Italic, Modern, Minimal) and three sizes; each story starts with its own. The line sits centred in the space under the photos, so it never overlaps them, and if you leave it empty the photos fill the page. Accents, Þ, ð, ß and similar letters print correctly; emoji cannot be printed in these typefaces.
Every order includes the digital print file, emailed within minutes of payment. A paper order is also printed on fine-art paper by a German fine-art lab and shipped to you. You see a proof at print scale, with a loupe, before you pay.
The digital file arrives within minutes. Prints are produced after payment and shipped worldwide; allow up to 19 days. From mid-September until Christmas, the last order date for Christmas delivery is shown at the top of this page.
No. The layout is solved for your photos: their shapes, faces, dates and resolution. Two sets of photos never get the same print, and the same set re-solves when you change the size.
4 to 40 photos · JPEG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, HEIC
