Classic Spiral: a path through your photo collection

Classic Spiral places frames along a single spiral path. It suits a collection you want people to explore: favourite places, a season outdoors or a set of shared memories. The overall shape leads the eye before the individual pictures take over.

This example requested 30 mm circles with 2 mm horizontal and vertical spacing on a 420 × 297 mm page. The planner fitted the arrangement to the page, so the final frame sizes can differ from the requested size. Preview your own collection: its final layout depends on the photographs and settings you choose.

Automatic content-aware assignment can change which photograph occupies each slot. The outward path does not automatically preserve a timeline. If your collection tells a chronological story, check the order before treating the spiral as a sequence of events.

On desktop, the Photo Collections wizard follows Upload Photos, Pages, Styles, Customize and Review. Add your photographs, choose your page count, then select Classic Spiral. The Pages picker offers A4, US Letter, A3 and A5 with portrait or landscape orientation; A3 landscape matches the canvas above.

Use Customize to review the shape, spacing and framing choices, then generate a preview before creating the collection. Circles remove corners from the source image. Vectrari® Vision can help frame detected content and faces, but a small person in a wide scene may still be tiny or close to an edge.

On phone, follow Upload, Pages, Style and Preview. Assignment stays automatic; review the resulting composition before creating it. Desktop provides manual photo assignment and the fuller editing controls when you want to refine individual placements.

Inspect both the whole spiral and individual crops. Our source photographs are 1080-pixel-wide derivatives; increasing export resolution cannot restore detail they do not contain. A larger physical print needs suitable source images and a proof at the intended size.

Pro adds SVG, JPEG and TIFF alongside PDF/PNG, higher-resolution export options and CMYK controls where the format supports them. Choose the format your print workflow needs, then check the finished file. Compare this path with Sunflower Spiral, or explore the same 100 photos in four layouts.