How to Make a Collage of the Best 9 Instagram Photos of 2018
If you use Instagram, chances are you’ve already started to see your friends posting collages of their “top 9” photos of the year.
The first year I started noticing them, I spent a full half hour at least trying to figure out where to find the collage in the Instagram app. Spoiler alert: You won’t find him there. It looks like a built-in Instagram feature, but it isn’t.
Collages are created by third parties. If you want, you have several options, but the “best” one is probably topnine.co . With it, you enter your Instagram username (or whatever you want) and your email address. In a few minutes, a .jpg collage of nine of your best photos of the year will appear in your inbox, along with a summary of how many likes you got in that year. This picture is actually taken on my desktop:
The topnine.co website is created by the same people who run the Top Nine app, which you can also use to get the same results.
I’m personally not happy with the idea of sharing my email address for this, but the site claims that you can revoke consent to receive emails at any time by going to topnine.co/forget-me .
If you want to create a collage without sending an email, you can do so on the Top Nine 2018 site. It doesn’t require an email address, but it does a rough watermark on your collage, which isn’t ideal if you want to share it with the masses. In addition, the creation of a real collage takes significantly longer. The first few tries took so long that I was pretty sure it was broken.
And it might be obvious: but since they just clear your account without requiring you to log in, both of them require your profile to be public in order to work.