On the browse section of this site, under 'popular' all the photos are displayed at varying sizes but arranged in a way that fits into a rectangle. (take a look it's hard to describe)
Does this technique for organising photos have a name? I would like to create a monthly version for each month of my own photos, I'm sure there must be some software to help the arrangement but can't think what search term to use.
I use a freeware program called Photoscape where there are over 100 templates to choose from on the "Page" tab or go free form on the "Combine" tab. I used it for today's photo.
artistically speaking its an album montage as collage is usually reserved for a singular image made up of other images or elements of other images (see photo mosaics and the sargeant pepper album cover) if your image is made of 3 side by side interconnected images you could also call it a triptych :)
I've been looking for another way to make these since Piknik was not the 365 Ace editor anymore; that was the main thing I used Piknik for. You're right though, even though the 365 PicMonkey doesn't have it, the Web version does.
If you have iPhone or iPad there are several apps that do it.
Also, I forgot to mention Posterino, which I learned about from people on this site, when some of them did montages/collages for the end of the year. It's a desktop app. I liked it at first, but over time I've been wishing it was more flexible and easy to customize into different cells.
@asrai Lee is right that technically the word should be Montage or Triptych, since the word Collage means something specific. However people are starting to use the word Collage so then what if you say Montage and they don't understand what you mean? It's a problem. If the word Collage changes to mean these framed-panel-image thingies, how will we refer to what was previously known as a collage? (Ditto for the word Bokeh!!) How about piccollage to differentiate.
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e.g. http://365project.org/twocups/also-ran/2012-07-01
If you have iPhone or iPad there are several apps that do it.
If you use Aperture, turns out you can make simple ones within the Print dialog, then import them back into Aperture. See URL http://www.laroquephoto.com/blog/2011/8/30/rock-the-grid-quick-layouts-in-aperture-3.html
I'm also downloading that Turbo Collage and will try it.
@asrai Lee is right that technically the word should be Montage or Triptych, since the word Collage means something specific. However people are starting to use the word Collage so then what if you say Montage and they don't understand what you mean? It's a problem. If the word Collage changes to mean these framed-panel-image thingies, how will we refer to what was previously known as a collage? (Ditto for the word Bokeh!!) How about piccollage to differentiate.