You can choose one of the text layouts that appear in the browsing panel, or click the Add text button up top, type your text into the text box that appears over your collage, and choose your fonts and effects from the tools menu that opens on the left. To use, click the Text tab in the tabs column. PicMonkey's text tools are peerless - tons of control, great effects, and dead-easy if you want perfect styling without the hassle.

For a deeper dive, check out the Collage tutorial, but this walk-through should get you going. Handily, you'll have all our photo editing effects and tools at your fingertips as well. How to make a photo grid Instagram Story collageįor a gridded collage, you'll be using PicMonkey's collage maker, which gives you easy drag-and-drop photo management, and super flexible cell-resizing if you wanna fiddle with the layout you've chosen.

Note that you'll want to start a free trial in order to export any images you make (see: amazing Instagram Story collages).** **If you'd like to follow along in PicMonkey, just make a free account and tinker away with all the fun tools and assets ( graphics to die for! textures to live for!). After that we'll leave you with a few ideas for collage-ifying your Story feed. We're gonna show you how to use PicMonkey to create an Instagram Story two ways: as a gridded collage using our collage maker, and as a freeform collage with one of PicMonkey's Instagram Story templates.

Instagram story grid layout