Woman photo collage, cut to a profile

Name: Woman photo collage, cut to a profile
Brand: Huge Photo Collage
Price: 9.99 USD
Availability: InStock

$9.99

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A woman photo collage, cut to the head and shoulders of a woman in profile with one hand raised, and filled with your own photographs. It is the only portrait-shaped outline in the shop and the only one that is a bust rather than a whole figure, which makes it the one that looks most like a piece of framed art and least like a novelty. It prints twenty by thirty inches: the outline is 0.675 as wide as it is tall against that sheet’s 0.667, the closest match of any shape to any sheet here, so almost none of the paper is wasted. A profile is three small features in a row - brow, nose, chin - with a raised hand beside them, and the hand is cut as its own separate piece. All of them are cut by the mask rather than built out of cells, so they are as sharp at the bottom of the range as at the top, and what the count decides is how large each photograph prints. What this outline does ask for is a floor of thirty-six, the highest in the shop - not because of the face, but because it is where the layout stops discarding the cells it has clipped. The two lines beneath are editable text in Canva.

See how it works in Canva: watch the how-to video.

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 36 photos; below that, parts of the outline can be left without a photo.

Print size	Photos	Suggested
12 × 12″	36–60	36
12 × 18″	36–100	36
16 × 20″	36–140	36
16 × 24″	36–170	50
20 × 20″	36–180	36
20 × 30″	36–275	80
24 × 24″	36–250	50
24 × 36″	36–375	110
30 × 40″	36–525	140
36 × 54″	36–875	250
40 × 60″	36–1075	325

Questions

How many photos does a woman photo collage need?

The suggested figure in the table, which is where each photograph prints about two inches on each edge. This outline used to carry a warning that it needed the top of its range for the profile to read; re-rendered across the range and looked at, that is not what happens - the brow, the nose and the chin are cut by the mask, so they are present at every count and what changes between the bottom and the top is only how large each photograph is.

Is it a portrait of anybody?

No. It is a generic profile - a woman with her hair up and a hand raised near her face - and it will not resemble the person you are making it for, any more than a dog outline resembles a particular dog. What carries the likeness is the photographs inside it. People buy this one for a milestone birthday, a retirement or a memorial, where the point is the years rather than the face.

Why is the hand a separate piece?

Because the gap between her raised hand and her jaw is part of the gesture, and filling it in merges the hand into her chin and loses it. Rather than close the gap we cut the outline into separate pieces that print in one frame, so the hand stays a hand. It costs nothing at print and it is the reason the shape still reads as someone with a hand raised rather than as a bust with a lump on it.

Can I print it square instead?

You can choose any size in the table, but a square sheet is the one to avoid here. A bust is a tall narrow thing, and set square it either shrinks to fit the height and leaves wide empty bands at the sides, or it fills the width and loses the top of her hair. Twenty by thirty is the sheet this outline was fitted to. The next size up in the same proportion gives you more cells, which on this shape is the single most useful thing you can buy.

What do people put on the two lines?

A name and a span of years, most often - the example reads one of each. Both are ordinary Canva text boxes, so the words, the face and the size are yours, and you can delete them. On a memorial print people usually keep the name and drop the second line; on a birthday it is more often the other way round.

What do I actually get?

A Canva template already cut to this outline, with the pieces positioned and the cells laid out, opening in a free Canva account. You place your photographs, set or remove the wording, and export it to print wherever you like. Nothing ships from here and nothing is installed; the file is yours from the moment you have it.