An American Bully photo collage, cut to the real outline of the breed and filled entirely with your own photographs. The silhouette is all mass - the low wide stance, the chest that drops below the elbow, the blocky head set square on a short neck - and that turns out to matter for how the finished print reads. A broad outline leaves a great deal of unbroken area inside it, so photographs land large and whole rather than being chipped into slivers around thin legs. What goes inside is usually the part strangers do not expect: the bully asleep across somebody small, the bully refusing to come in out of the rain, the bully being careful with a tennis ball. The name and the line beneath it stay editable in Canva, so the print says what you would say.
See how it works in Canva: watch the how-to video.
Every figure comes from the layout engine rather than a rule of thumb. The suggested count is where each photograph prints about two inches on each edge - large enough to make out a face across a room. Because this collage is cut to an outline rather than filling the sheet, that is far fewer photographs than a plain grid of the same size takes. The minimum is 22 photos; below that, parts of the outline can be left without a photo.
| Print size | Photos | Suggested |
|---|---|---|
| 12 × 12″ | 22–60 | 22 |
| 12 × 18″ | 22–100 | 22 |
| 16 × 20″ | 22–140 | 22 |
| 16 × 24″ | 22–170 | 22 |
| 20 × 20″ | 22–180 | 30 |
| 20 × 30″ | 22–275 | 30 |
| 24 × 24″ | 22–250 | 40 |
| 24 × 36″ | 22–375 | 40 |
| 30 × 40″ | 22–525 | 60 |
| 36 × 54″ | 22–875 | 90 |
| 40 × 60″ | 22–1075 | 120 |
Whatever the table above suggests for your size. The figure is chosen so that each picture comes out around two inches square rather than a thumbnail. This shape is more forgiving than most at the low end: the chest and barrel are big open regions that read from a handful of large pictures. Below the minimum in the table the layout starts dropping the cells the outline clips, and one of those shows as a white bite along an edge - which is what that number is measured to avoid.
Because the edge has to do the work. In a square grid nothing is being described - the photographs are the whole picture. In a shaped one the outline is the picture, and an outline is only as smooth as the cells that follow it. Below the minimum in the table the layout starts discarding the cells the outline clips, and whatever no neighbour absorbs prints as a white bite out of the edge. The number is not a sales floor; it is measured on this outline, and it is where the thing starts working.
A Canva template cut to this outline, opened in a free Canva account. You place your photographs into the frames, change anything you want to change, and export it for printing. Nothing is shipped and nothing is printed by us - the file is yours, and it stays in your Canva account to come back to.
Yes. The name and the line under it are editable text, so the typeface, the size, the colour and the position are all yours to set, and you can delete them entirely if the outline says enough on its own. This is the reason the thing you buy is a template and not a finished picture.
The outline is drawn from the breed profile rather than from one particular dog, so it will not match every build exactly - the classes differ more in height and heft than in shape, and the silhouette sits in the middle of them. What makes the print recognisably your dog is not the outline. It is the pictures inside it.
The outline carries a short ear set and it will not be right for every dog. The same answer applies as to build: the shape names the breed from across a room, and the photographs name the dog when you walk up to it. If the ears are the detail that matters most to you, the larger print sizes carry more of it.
Not sure how it works? A 3-minute tour of the designer, from picking a shape to the Buy button.
