There are various reasons you would want to put your photos side by side on your Windows PC. Luckily, your PC offers several ways to do this without much hassle.
You can either use a built-in app to combine your photos or run a command from the Command Prompt to stitch your photos together.
Here we’ll show you how to combine photos using both those ways on Windows.
Combine Photos Using Paint 3D on Windows
Paint 3D is one of the built-in apps on Windows 10, and you can use this app to greatly enhance and edit your photos. This app allows you to put your photos side by side, which means you don’t need a third-party app.
Let’s combine two photos horizontally using Paint 3D. Both photos have the same height. If your photos have different heights, you’ll need to adjust some values in the below procedure.
To start:
- Right-click your first photo, select Properties, open the Details tab and note the width of your photo. This is displayed next to Dimensions in the Image section.
- Do the above for your second photo as well.
- Add the width of both your photos and keep the result in your mind.
- Launch Paint 3D and click New to create a new project.
- Click Canvas at the top, then untick both Lock aspect ratio and Resize image with canvas on the right.
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Enter the sum of the width of both your photos in the Width box. Enter the height of your photos in the Height box. For height, you don’t need to do the sum. Then, press Enter to apply the changes.
- Click Menu in the top-left and select Insert on the following screen.
- Select the first photo that you want to combine. It’ll be added to your canvas.
- Drag your newly added photo all the way to the left. Make sure there are no white spaces on the left and the top and bottom sides.
- Click Menu in the top-left again and select Insert.
- This time, select the second photo that you want to combine.
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Drag your second photo all the way to the right. Make sure the photo covers no part of your first photo.
- Both your photos should now be nicely combined. To save this combination as a single image, click Menu in the top-left and select Save.
- Select a folder to save your photo, enter a name for your photo, and click Save.
Combine Photos Using ImageMagick on Windows
ImageMagick is a free utility that lets you combine photos using the Command Prompt on your Windows PC. You basically need to issue a command, and the utility stitches all your specified photos into one.
To use this:
- Head over to the ImageMagick website and download and install the utility on your PC.
- You don’t need to launch the utility as you’ll be using it from the Command Prompt.
- Open the Start menu, search for Command Prompt, and click this utility in the search results.
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Assuming your photos are placed on your desktop, run the following command in the Command Prompt to make your desktop the current working directory:
cd desktop - If your photos are elsewhere, type cd followed by the full path to your photos folder. If there are spaces in the path of your folder, enclose the path with double-quotes.
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Run the following command to combine two photos named 1.png and 2.png into a new file called result.png. Of course, you need to replace these names with the names of your actual photos.
magick convert +append 1.png 2.png result.png
- Your combined photos file will be saved in the same folder as your original photos.
Combine Photos on Windows With Ease
If you use a Windows PC, you have several easy-to-use options to put photos side by side on your computer. If you prefer commands, you can use ImageMagick. If you’re more of a graphical person, Paint 3D is your best option to do the task.
If you’re looking to edit your photos further, use one of the many image editing apps available for Windows PCs.