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Home > Easy Layouts > Misc. Layouts > Cramming Photos Into a Layout
In a rush to get all your photos into an album?  There is a solution - Cram 'em in!  There are many ways you can do that.  Collage, tiled, overlapping, silhouetting and clustering are some and I'm going to show you an example of each.

Collage Double Layout: Use several photographs and crop them to fit in close proximity of each other.  Notice the open space for journaling.  This use of space allows for several photos without looking crowded.

 

Tile #1: These photos have been cropped to be the same size.  This makes your layout look tidy.


Tile #2: Again, these photos have been cropped to the same size, but they are anchored on one mat.


Overlapping, Silhouetting and Clustering -

Be cautious when you overlap, it can look messy if not carefully thought out.  Here I have used 3 photos which allowed more room for others.

The most time-consuming of all techniques, silhouetting, is fun and allows for many photos to fit on a page.  There is one rule to silhouetting: make sure you anchor your subject on the page without it looking like a half body is floating in thin air.

Clustering is a super fast, super easy and super way to accommodate a whole bunch of pictures on a layout!  The example here shows photos cropped in a circle, but you can use the same technique using any shape you wish.  The idea is to cluster them closely together.  Why?  To save space of course!


Another example of silhouetting- Just remember the rule:  Anchor your subject somewhere on the page so that it doesn't look like body parts are missing.

Several photos are silhouetted on this layout to create a "collage." Notice how they are anchored onto the bottom of the page and each other so no one is "floating."

Silhouetting in the middle of the page is acceptable as long as you have the entire subject in the photo and nothing is cut off. This is when it's okay to float a silhouette.

Bad example of silhouetting - notice the head is chopped off but isn't anchored. The hat sticker is a bad attempt to correct the problem.

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