Layout from Instagram: Collage

Instagram

About this app

Instagram's newest app is a better way to make collages. Layout lets you create one-of-a-kind layouts by remixing your own photos and sharing them with your friends.

Choose photos from your gallery—or use the built-in Photo Booth to snap spur-of-the-moment shots—and instantly see them laid out in a cool collage. Pick the layout you like best, then edit it to make it your own.

Layout's smooth, intuitive process gives you complete creative control. Tap to mirror, flip or replace images, hold and drag to swap them, pinch to zoom in or out, or pull the handles to resize. You're the editor, so get creative with the way you stitch things together—you can tell a story, show off an outfit or just splice, dice and change the look of your regular photos to convey a mood or theme.


**FEATURES**

* Re-mix up to 9 of your photos at a time to create fun, personalized layouts and collages.
* Use the Faces tab to quickly find photos with people in them.
* Capture the moment in Photo Booth mode with quick, spontaneous shots.
* Save your layouts to your gallery and share them seamlessly to Instagram or other networks.
* Easily see the last 30 photos you've selected in the Recents tab.
* Pair your layouts and collages with Instagram's filters and creative tools afterwards to make them stand out even more.
* Download and start creating a layout or collage immediately. No signup or account required—and no clutter breaking up your flow.

Ratings and reviews

Super easy and fast to use, very practical. It's a 4 out of 5, because sometimes I'm missing a cropping options for some pictures (images must be cropped before opening the app), if I take new pictures while using the app, it doesn't load them (gotta close it and open it again), and I'd love to have the option of a black border (or even better, choose any color border)

App description mentions a variety of ways to customize the photos, but remembering those points isn't quite as intuitive as they make it sound. Looking at the collage, with its tiny photos, is less ideal for editing, plus I prefer uncropped pics. There also doesn't seem to be a way to designate which folders you want, so you see everything, and all jumbled together. I have other apps for these functions, so I'm not sure how much I may use this. Why not add this directly into Instagram?

Use is not very intuitive. The arrangements are rigid, and though you can choose relative frame size, you can't zoom in/out of selected photos to fit them in the frame to your liking. I wanted to arrange 3 pics: 1 large rectangle at the bottom, with two half-sized squares on top. It can't be done. There is a setup with 2 squares at the bottom and a rectangle on top, and you can flip the images themselves but not the layout. Otherwise, the app seems to work well for what capabilities it has.