How do I make an instant-style photo with a caption?

Choose your photos, or drop them on the stage, and pick a frame: Classic, Portrait, Landscape or Strip of 4. Type the caption under the preview, choose a font, a frame color and a caption color, and set the turn in whole degrees from -15 to 15. PNG saves the frame on show, All PNGs saves every frame in one ZIP, and PDF lays the frames out on paper for printing. The PNG is made at the DPI you pick, 150, 300 or 600: at 300 DPI a Classic frame is 1063 x 1299 px, and turned 4 degrees it is 1152 x 1370 px.

What size is each frame, and will it print at that size?

At 100%, Classic is 90 x 110 mm with an 80 x 80 mm photo, borders of 5 mm at the sides and top and 25 mm below. Portrait is 64 x 97 mm with a 54 x 72 mm photo, Landscape is 106 x 97 mm with a 96 x 72 mm photo, and the Strip of 4 is 52 x 163 mm with four 44 x 33 mm photos 3 mm apart and 18 mm below. The size setting scales all of it from 50% to 200%. PDF pages are the paper's exact size and each frame is placed at its millimetre position, so it prints at that size when the print dialog is set to 100% or Actual size; Fit to page can shrink it. Each PNG also records its DPI in the file.

How many photos fit on one sheet of paper?

With the default 10 mm margins and 5 mm gap, an A4 sheet holds 4 Classic frames (2 across, 2 down), 4 Portrait frames, 2 Landscape frames, or 4 strips side by side on landscape paper. Auto picks portrait or landscape paper by whichever holds more, and the block of frames is centred inside the margins. Six Classic frames make two A4 pages: 4, then 2. When a frame does not fit, the page says so with the printable area in millimetres.

What happens to a long caption?

A caption can be up to 60 characters, counted as a reader sees them, so an emoji counts once. It starts at a comfortable size and shrinks to fit the frame's width; if that would make it much smaller, it splits into two lines at the most balanced space, or mid-word for a single long word, and keeps whichever version is bigger. Either way it stays inside the caption area of the bottom border at every frame size and DPI. A longer caption is refused with its count, not cut off.

Can I write captions in other languages or with emoji?

Handwritten covers Latin and Cyrillic letters, Marker covers basic Latin with Western European accents, and Typewriter covers Latin with accents. When a caption has a character outside the chosen font's character set, the page names that character and says it will be drawn in the device's fallback font, and Use System switches the caption to the System font, which draws with this device's own fonts and covers most scripts and emoji. A character no font on the device has shows as a box.

Is this made by Polaroid or linked to any camera brand?

No. The four frames are original designs made for this site, not copies of any camera maker's frame, name or logo. Polaroid is a trademark of its owner and appears here only as the phrase people search for; this site is not affiliated with it or with any camera maker. Your photo is placed as it is: the tones are plain color adjustments, not a simulation of instant film.

Are my photos uploaded or kept anywhere?

No. Photos are read and drawn in this browser tab. Each file's declared size is read from its header first, and a photo over 52 megapixels or 20,000 px a side is refused before it is decoded. The tab keeps a small copy of each photo for the preview and decodes the full photo again only while its frame is being exported. Only the frame and print settings are remembered in this browser; photos and captions are not stored, so reloading the page clears them. The PNG and PDF are drawn fresh and carry no metadata from your photos.

Why is my phone photo not sideways in the frame?

Phones often store a photo sideways and add an orientation tag saying how to turn it. The page decodes each photo with the browser's own orientation handling on, reads the tag from the JPEG's bytes, and applies a quarter turn the tag asks for only when the browser has not already applied it, so the photo is upright once, not turned twice.

Instant Photo Frame Maker

Put your own photos in original instant-photo style frames: Classic, a square photo over a 25 mm bottom border, or Portrait, Landscape or a Strip of 4, each at 50% to 200% of its stated size. Every frame takes a caption of up to 60 characters that shrinks, then wraps to two lines, and stays inside the bottom border at any size and resolution; when the chosen font has no drawing for a character, the page names it and offers the System font instead. Pick the frame and caption colors, turn the frame up to 15 degrees either way, and add a plain warm, cool, faded or black-and-white tone. A turned PNG is drawn on a canvas that grows to fit, so no corner is cut off, and its corners stay transparent unless you choose a background color. For printing, the frames are laid out straight on A4, US Letter, A5, 4 x 6 in or 5 x 7 in paper inside the margins you set, with the gap and optional cut guides, and saved as a PDF whose pages are the paper's exact size. Photos are read in your browser and never uploaded, and the PNG and PDF carry none of their metadata, such as the camera or the location.

Put photos in instant-photo style frames

JPEG, PNG, WebP, GIF or BMP, up to 48 photos. They are read in this browser and never uploaded.

Choose photos

Frame: 90 x 110 mm
Per A4 sheet: 4
PNG, 300 DPI: 1063 x 1299 px
Turned 4 degrees: 1152 x 1370 px

A 60-character captionClassic frame, exported at 150 and 300 DPI
shrinks, then wraps to 2 lines, and stays inside the 25 mm bottom border at both sizes
Frame turned 4 degreesPNG, transparent background
the canvas grows from 1063 x 1299 to 1152 x 1370 px, so no corner is clipped
6 Classic framesA4, 10 mm margins, 5 mm gap
4 on page 1 and 2 on page 2, every frame inside the margins

Common questions

How do I make an instant-style photo with a caption?: Choose your photos, or drop them on the stage, and pick a frame: Classic, Portrait, Landscape or Strip of 4. Type the caption under the preview, choose a font, a frame color and a caption color, and set the turn in whole degrees from -15 to 15. PNG saves the frame on show, All PNGs saves every frame in one ZIP, and PDF lays the frames out on paper for printing. The PNG is made at the DPI you pick, 150, 300 or 600: at 300 DPI a Classic frame is 1063 x 1299 px, and turned 4 degrees it is 1152 x 1370 px.
What size is each frame, and will it print at that size?: At 100%, Classic is 90 x 110 mm with an 80 x 80 mm photo, borders of 5 mm at the sides and top and 25 mm below. Portrait is 64 x 97 mm with a 54 x 72 mm photo, Landscape is 106 x 97 mm with a 96 x 72 mm photo, and the Strip of 4 is 52 x 163 mm with four 44 x 33 mm photos 3 mm apart and 18 mm below. The size setting scales all of it from 50% to 200%. PDF pages are the paper's exact size and each frame is placed at its millimetre position, so it prints at that size when the print dialog is set to 100% or Actual size; Fit to page can shrink it. Each PNG also records its DPI in the file.
How many photos fit on one sheet of paper?: With the default 10 mm margins and 5 mm gap, an A4 sheet holds 4 Classic frames (2 across, 2 down), 4 Portrait frames, 2 Landscape frames, or 4 strips side by side on landscape paper. Auto picks portrait or landscape paper by whichever holds more, and the block of frames is centred inside the margins. Six Classic frames make two A4 pages: 4, then 2. When a frame does not fit, the page says so with the printable area in millimetres.
What happens to a long caption?: A caption can be up to 60 characters, counted as a reader sees them, so an emoji counts once. It starts at a comfortable size and shrinks to fit the frame's width; if that would make it much smaller, it splits into two lines at the most balanced space, or mid-word for a single long word, and keeps whichever version is bigger. Either way it stays inside the caption area of the bottom border at every frame size and DPI. A longer caption is refused with its count, not cut off.
Can I write captions in other languages or with emoji?: Handwritten covers Latin and Cyrillic letters, Marker covers basic Latin with Western European accents, and Typewriter covers Latin with accents. When a caption has a character outside the chosen font's character set, the page names that character and says it will be drawn in the device's fallback font, and Use System switches the caption to the System font, which draws with this device's own fonts and covers most scripts and emoji. A character no font on the device has shows as a box.
Is this made by Polaroid or linked to any camera brand?: No. The four frames are original designs made for this site, not copies of any camera maker's frame, name or logo. Polaroid is a trademark of its owner and appears here only as the phrase people search for; this site is not affiliated with it or with any camera maker. Your photo is placed as it is: the tones are plain color adjustments, not a simulation of instant film.
Are my photos uploaded or kept anywhere?: No. Photos are read and drawn in this browser tab. Each file's declared size is read from its header first, and a photo over 52 megapixels or 20,000 px a side is refused before it is decoded. The tab keeps a small copy of each photo for the preview and decodes the full photo again only while its frame is being exported. Only the frame and print settings are remembered in this browser; photos and captions are not stored, so reloading the page clears them. The PNG and PDF are drawn fresh and carry no metadata from your photos.
Why is my phone photo not sideways in the frame?: Phones often store a photo sideways and add an orientation tag saying how to turn it. The page decodes each photo with the browser's own orientation handling on, reads the tag from the JPEG's bytes, and applies a quarter turn the tag asks for only when the browser has not already applied it, so the photo is upright once, not turned twice.

The frames are original decorative designs made for this site: they copy no camera maker's frame, name or logo, claim no link to any camera brand, and place your photo as it is, with no instant-film look simulated; the tone choices are plain color adjustments. PDF pages are laid out in millimetres at the paper's exact size, so frames print at the stated size when the print dialog is set to 100% or actual size, and PNG pixel sizes follow the DPI you pick.