Here’s a quick design tip on working with photos from issue 43 of Before&After Magazine.
A grid is a beautifully simple way to display a group of photos. It’s neater than a scrapbook-style collage yet just as versatile, and it accommodates large and small photos, side by side and overlapped, yet functions as a single, easy-to-design unit.
Sometimes you can’t find that one perfect photo. Use many! Set up a uniform grid, then crop your photos to fit a square or some multiple of squares.
A 16-unit grid (above) can contain between one and 16 images. Note that the grid lines remain on top.
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© John McWade/Before&After Magazine, courtesy of Gaye Anne McWade.
This article was last modified on January 4, 2026
This article was first published on September 6, 2024
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