Photo Printing Gifts – Creating Photo Collages With Canva

Hello and welcome back for another PFF blog post! We’ve noticed that you guys really love our photo printing DIY posts so today, we’re back for more. As most of you know, one of the products we offer are our Customised Poster Collages where you can create your own design or choose from our various templates. Photo collages are a popular choice when it comes to photo printing gifts. 

Previously, we’ve also shared with you guys how you can create photo collages using InDesign. It was really simple so give that a read if you have yet to. Today, we’re going to share with you how to use Canva to create photo collages! Canva is a graphic design platform where you can create presentations, templates, posters and also photo collages. 

There’s lots of creative freedom when you’ve using Canva and the best part? They offer free icons and photos for you to use in your designs. Canva offers a wide range of fonts and resources that could come in handy when you’re designing your. You can also go crazy when designing the backgrounds.

We’ve designed a couple of photo collages as inspiration for you guys. 

Here’s one you could create as a birthday gift for your loved ones.

Click here to use the design as a template

With Canva, you can also play around with the background of your photo collages. Here’s one we designed with multiple colours.


Click here to use this design as a template

You can also use a photo as the background. When doing this however, you might want to tone down the opacity of the background photo. Here’s how this design turned out for us.

Click here to use this design as a template

With Mothers’ Day just around the corner, we’ve prepared a few templates you can use to gift to your mothers. Click here to access the templates.

Once you’ve been redirected, click on the use template button. Then, sign up for canva to start using. To use your own photos, simply drag them over the existing ones. As for the text, you can also personalise them accordingly.

If you’ve read till the end of the post, here’s a bonus. You can also use Canva to create templates for your social media posts. Here are a couple of designs we’ve done up from the past. 

There’s so much you can do on Canva. Take your time to explore the different features/ templates to see what works best. So what are you waiting for? Try your hand at it today and create your own photo collages.

We’ll be back for more real soon. In the meantime, head over to our photo printing page to place orders for all your photo printing needs. Till the next time, cheers!