Mosaic is a set of images that are published individually, but that are part of a single photograph. When the profile is visited, the mosaic can be seen in its entirety. Today we are going to explain how you can create this mosaic on your Instagram profile easily and simply; thus providing a special and different appeal.
This mobile social network allows you to share photos and even schedule posts on Instagram to your friends. Its success has spread to mobile phones, and you can now upload and post photos on Instagram from a Windows PC.
Even Mac users have not been excluded as they can also upload photos and videos to Instagram from Mac using Google Chrome. Which indicates that this social network is here to stay.
Not only that, thanks to its constant innovation you can share a Tweet on your Instagram Stories. Yes, you read that right, a Tweet from Twitter. And now, you can also make a nice mosaic of photos.
This is possible on Instagram because it presents the photos in a standard way. With the mosaic, the original photo is divided into exact squares to be reconstructed in the profile with the separated pieces.
How does Instagram place photos on tiles?
Instagram uses square images and presents them to you in groups of photos of 3 by 3 on the horizontal plane. Therefore, your profile is divided into 3 perfect squares for each line, adding a total of 9 photos distributed in a 3×3 matrix.
Instagram tiles can also be made manually using Photoshop; But as we already mentioned, there are many applications on the market that facilitate this process.
Some of the applications to create photo mosaics on Instagram
- Tile Pic: Free application available for iOS that allows you to divide photos into blocks and then upload them to Instagram to create your mosaic.
- Pic Splitter: Tool for IOS and Android that in addition to creating the mosaic of your Instagram photos, allows you to select background colors for those empty spaces.
- Grids for Instagram: Application also free and to be used on Android devices.
- Instagrid for Instagram: In Instagram, the images for creating the mosaic are usually square, but now this changes with this application; you select the photo you want in your profile and its appearance; that is if it is 3×3 or 3×1, inclusive 3×4.
We will create the mosaic with the Instagrid application and the first thing to do is download it from Google Play; once installed, we click on the icon to access the gallery.
Now you select the photo for the mosaic, then the interface will show a small grid in the central part of the screen of 3 squares horizontally.
At the bottom of the screen in “Crop Mode”, there are 5 alternatives to divide the mosaic, choose the option that interests you. In this case, we will take the traditional 3×3; immediately the 9 squares appear.
You can also observe the 4 white dots on the grid, to change the size of it. Then click on “OK”; thus you will observe the 9 squares with the numbering of each frame for the ascent.
As is a 3×3 template; You should start at the bottom right and so on until you reach the last top row on the left side. That is, following the order that they have shown us.
Once completed we click on “SAVE TO SDCARD”; in this way, the mosaic is saved and then another click on “SAVE”; to store it on our Android device.
We go to Instagram and open the profile, to see if we have the publications in the last line 3 photos horizontally; if you are missing any you must fill in that space with another photo.
Now they must begin to upload, each one of the fragments of the elaborated mosaic, in the established order; Finally, the profile is verified again that everything has been correctly.
To conclude, we can see that making a mosaic or banner through these applications is achieved quickly and easily; Best of all, most are free.