Automatic photo collage in Photoshop

Published on March 1, 2026

In this blog I will show you how to automatically create a photo collage in Adobe Photoshop.

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Automatic photo collage

Open Photoshop. You don’t have to create a new document or open any files first.

Just go to ‘File > Automate > Contact sheet II‘.

Now follow the following steps:

Select the folder with the photos you want to use for the collage. I cropped these photos first to make them all square.
Adjust the document settings to your liking.
Select in which direction you want the photos to appear in the collage (across first or down first). Then adjust the amount of columns and rows. The folder I selected contains 9 photos, so I make a 3×3 collage.
You can use auto-spacing, or you can adjust these settings yourself. For this example I am using the auto-spacing option.
If you want, you can use the file name as a caption. The file name will appear beneath the photo in the collage if you select this.