Split one image into a grid
An image splitter cuts a single picture into smaller, equal pieces. People use it to cut a wide panorama into slides for a carousel post, to split a poster into sheets they can print on a home printer and tape together, to divide a sprite sheet or a scanned page, or to make a puzzle.
Choose how many rows (horizontal cuts) and columns (vertical cuts) you want, from 1 to 10 each. The preview draws the grid on top of your image and, for grids of up to 36 cells, labels each one with its row and column, so you can see exactly what each file will contain. The size of each tile is shown under the preview.
Common ways to split an image
| Goal | Rows × columns | Result |
|---|---|---|
| Cut an image in half, left and right | 1 × 2 | 2 tiles |
| Cut an image in half, top and bottom | 2 × 1 | 2 tiles |
| Quarters | 2 × 2 | 4 tiles |
| Panorama for a 3-slide carousel | 1 × 3 | 3 tiles |
| Poster on 4 sheets | 2 × 2 | 4 tiles |
| 3 × 3 grid | 3 × 3 | 9 tiles |
When the width or height doesn’t divide exactly, the spare pixels are spread across the tiles, so some are one pixel wider or taller than others. Nothing is cropped or lost.
What you download
All tiles come in one ZIP file named after your image (a 1 × 1 setting simply downloads the single file). Inside, each file is called name-row-column: photo-1-1 is the top-left tile, photo-1-2 is next to it, photo-2-1 starts the second row. File managers that sort numbers naturally, such as Finder and Windows File Explorer, list them in reading order.
By default the tiles keep the format of the original: a JPG gives JPG tiles, a PNG gives PNG tiles (transparency kept), WebP stays WebP (PNG in Safari, which can’t save WebP). HEIC and AVIF images are saved as JPG; SVG, GIF and BMP as PNG. You can also force PNG (lossless) or JPG (smaller files). Each tile has the original’s resolution, because the image is only cut, never resized.
Splitting for Instagram and printing
For a seamless Instagram profile grid, the photo must first be cropped to the grid’s shape and the tiles posted in reverse order. The Instagram Grid Maker does both, and our guide How to split an image into a grid for Instagram walks through the posting order. For printing, check that each tile still has enough pixels for the paper size with Photo Print Size — What is DPI for printing? explains how many pixels a sheet needs. To put tiles back together, or to join other images into one, use Merge Images.
Private by design
Your image never leaves your device. It is decoded and cut on a canvas in the page, and the ZIP is assembled locally. The site’s security policy only lets the page talk to its own server, and the tiles are created from pixels only, so EXIF metadata such as GPS location is not copied into them.