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Soccer photo collage, cut to a player and the ball at his feet
$9.99
A soccer photo collage, cut to the outline of a player with the ball drawn as a piece of its own beside his foot. That second piece is the thing to know before anything else: the artwork is two shapes rather than one, him and the ball, and the ball holds about a thirteenth of the inked area - just under four inches across on a twenty by thirty print, which is about five photographs at fifty-five and several dozen at the top of the range. It is a ball built out of pictures sitting on the paper by itself, with a clear gap between it and his boot. The figure is narrow, about three-fifths as wide as it is tall - third narrowest in the shop behind the soldier and the basketball player - which is why it prints on the tall sheet rather than a square one: on square paper two-fifths of the width would be bare and every photograph in it would come out about a quarter smaller. The two lines underneath stay editable text in Canva.
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How many photos fit
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 16 photos; below that, parts of the outline can be left without a photo.
| Print size | Photos | Suggested |
|---|---|---|
| 12 × 12″ | 16–60 | 16 |
| 12 × 18″ | 16–100 | 16 |
| 16 × 20″ | 16–140 | 20 |
| 16 × 24″ | 16–170 | 30 |
| 20 × 20″ | 16–180 | 20 |
| 20 × 30″ | 16–275 | 45 |
| 24 × 24″ | 16–250 | 30 |
| 24 × 36″ | 16–375 | 70 |
| 30 × 40″ | 16–525 | 80 |
| 36 × 54″ | 16–875 | 150 |
| 40 × 60″ | 16–1075 | 190 |
Questions
How many photos do I need for a soccer photo collage?
Sixteen at the smallest size, with the table above giving the range for the rest - and this is one to keep toward the bottom of whatever range you are given. The outline itself holds at any count, because the photographs are cut to it rather than stacked inside it, so nothing about the figure improves by adding more. What moves is scale, and a standing figure with the ball away from his body leaves a great deal of the sheet bare: a little under two-fifths of the paper is inked, so the pictures are already smaller here than in a broad outline at the same count. At the floor they come out around two and three-quarter inches across on a twenty by thirty print. At the top of the range they are nearer six-tenths of an inch, which is a texture rather than a set of photographs.
Why is the ball a separate shape?
Because he is kicking it rather than holding it, and a ball welded to the boot reads as a club foot. The drawing is two outlines and the layout fills both, so the figure takes most of the photographs and the ball gets a small cluster of its own with bare paper in the gap between them. The ball is also what makes the print legible from across a room: a standing figure on its own could be anybody in any sport, and the ball at his feet names the game without a word of text.
Why does it print so tall?
Because he is that shape. Measured across the artwork the figure comes out about three-fifths as wide as it is high. Only the soldier at 0.405 and the basketball player at 0.477 are narrower, and the poodle, the woman in profile and the officer are the others that leave the square sheet behind. Twenty by thirty is the nearest paper we sell to those proportions. On a square sheet two-fifths of the width would sit empty and the figure would shrink to pay for it, taking every photograph inside it down by about a quarter.
Soccer or football?
The same drawing either way, and the words are yours. This page is written in the one most people type, but nothing on the print says either - there is no lettering in the outline at all, only the figure and the ball. The two lines underneath are ordinary Canva text, so the caption is where you settle it, along with the club, the season or the name.
Will it look like the player it is for?
No, and that is worth hearing before you buy rather than after. The figure is a generic drawing: no face, no number, no badge, no kit colours, and a stance rather than a build. Nothing in the outline belongs to any club or any country. What makes the print belong to one player is entirely the photographs inside it, which in practice is what makes these worth hanging - the shape says what they did and the pictures say who they were.
What occasions do people buy this for?
End of season first, and the pictures are usually a whole year of a child playing rather than one match. After that a coach leaving, somebody retiring from a Sunday league, or a sixteenth or eighteenth birthday for a person whose entire adolescence happened on a pitch. It is bought for adults who still play as often as for children, and the outline carries both, being nobody in particular.
What exactly is delivered?
A Canva template already cut to this outline, ball included, with every cell positioned, opening in a free Canva account. You decide which photograph goes where, set or delete the two lines, and export it to print wherever you like. We print nothing and post nothing. The file stays in your Canva account, so a better photograph next season can replace a worse one without buying anything again.
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