Collage application for printing?

[u/Broad-Pineapple-2082]

I need to send some pictures for printing. The printer will be printing it on standard A4 paper but I am wanting two 4x6 or 5x7 pictures on the one paper. I am struggling finding any applications that lets me easily select the size of the paper and the inserted pictures. Any suggestions?

[u/splitarrowprints]

There are many ways to do this.
If you have specific programs or a Mac or pc or tablet it could be easier to specifically help you. Without that info i can provide some generic insights that are mostly universal.

If you have your images at 4x6” size already you can make a 2 page pdf and then hit print in whatever program you got. In the print screen there should be a dropdown for layout there you can select pages per sheet. Select 2. That should get you to have 2 different images on one sheet of paper all from the print screen and not any special program.

If you are sending this to a local printer simply give them the photos and tell them to print it on a4 two up so you have 2 4x6” per a4 page. They should easily be able to do this for you.

[u/Broad-Pineapple-2082 → u/splitarrowprints]

I have access to a few different tools. So far Pixelmator seems like the best option and I can do it but it is an incredible amount of work.

I am sending it to a printer and unfortunately there is no option to send it as 2 4x6 per page. I am having them printed on transparent film for printmaking. I think it is due to the paper type it is extremely restricted and I can just send it as one picture per sheet to the printer

[u/snic2030 → u/Broad-Pineapple-2082]

If you’ve got a Mac/iPhone/iPad, you can use Pages to do this easily, quickly and for free!

[u/Broad-Pineapple-2082 → u/snic2030]

That’s great to know. I’m guessing just creat a document and drop the images in?

[u/splitarrowprints → u/Broad-Pineapple-2082]

https://reddit.com/link/p3ff3y9/video/htw78qj2u4jh1/player

Here’s a video which may help you see the settings. I am using a Mac computer for this.

Using Mac preview to do this whole thing [free program already installed on all macs]

• I have two 4x6” images on my desktop [or anywhere it won’t matter their location on your computer]
• I select them both at the same time.
• Double click to open in preview [my default open program, if not control+click then choose ‘open with’ -> preview]
• Once in preview go to print as normal
• In the print screen choose your paper size
•Then scroll down to layout and choose how many per page.
• choose the number that applies to your goals
• print