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I find making moodboards to be very useful for several different things in my life, so I wanted to create a little tutorial I could easily link people on how anyone can create their own!

Getting Started:

First, you’ll need images! Here are some sites where you can find good options to browse:

Pinterest

While Pinterest remains one of the best places for browsing and collecting aesthetic images, it has definitely become overrun with generative AI images in recent years. While it’s not a perfect fix to that issue, it’s recommended you use the site while signed-in, so you can head to this page in your settings and turn off all the AI options! While some will still get through, I’ve found this does make a difference!

Unsplash

I’ve yet to see AI images on Unsplash! Everything there is public domain, and you can make an account to save things into collections for easy organization! (The “Option One” tool below gets its images from Unsplash!)

Same.Energy

I’ve yet to see AI images here, either! This site allows you to search for and select an image—or even upload your own—and see a bunch of results for aesthetically similar images. You can make an account here, too, for saving what you find! Same.Energy has a button by the search bar you can toggle so it only returns public domain images; otherwise, viewing a full image will include a link to its source!

DesignInspiration

Another one I’ve also yet to encounter AI on! While not as similar in function to Pinterest as the latter two options, DesignInspiration is uniquely good at color matching. You can search an exact hex code of a color (or multiple!) and it will show you a bunch of stock images and other graphics that use those colors!

Got your images?

There are two options for a tool to put it all together that I recommend, but you can use any program you're comfortable working in to create yours!

Option One:

• Moodboarder Tool

Important: Thoroughly read the info next to the generator, and check out this page for more detailed instructions!
This is a browser-based app created by Exculis and self-hosted by me to ensure reliable access. It can also be downloaded as an .HTML file on your hard drive to allow for offline use! The images automatically populating the generator are public domain and free to use without attribution, but you can also upload your own images. Use the "Take Pic" button to save the finished board.

Option Two:

• Fotor.com

The websites I use in these tutorials are not owned or operated by myself, so it's possible that they may be updated in ways that invalidate parts or even all of this tutorial. If you notice that my tutorial does not match the software currently available in a way that makes the tutorial useless, please don't hesitate to reach out and let me know! (You can use the contact form here!)

This tutorial exists in written form below, but also as a video if you prefer that format instead!

First off, you'll want to make an account--or generate one by linking a Google/etc account. Then you should end up on this page; if you don't, just head to www.fotor.com/design directly.

There's a few buttons on this page that say "Collage", but they don't all get you to the same place; Click "Simple Collage" on the SIDEBAR!From there, click "Photo Collage (Square)"; This will set you up for a square moodboard you don't have to edit the dimensions of!

You'll be taken to this page, where you'll be able to upload your photos. If you haven't already, pause here and go collect some! A good quantity to aim for is around 4-12 images. These images should, when put together, contribute to the vibe and--in most cases--color scheme you're aiming for. I'll be making a generic moodboard for this tutorial, based on themes of a misty fey forest.

When you've gathered the images you want, you can upload them directly onto the collage. For my demonstration, I ended up with 8 images total; Fotor sorted them very plainly, like this:

Now we get to format things! It doesn't look very fancy right off the bat, but that's okay!
First, I'm going to scroll down through the layouts presented on the sidebar, and find one I want to start with. I chose one that felt the most dynamic as a starting point. I also reduced the "Spacing" and "Margins" slider to zero, which took away that white space between each image. You might like that, though! So it's up to your preference here.

Now let's tweak the layout to our liking! First, you can click and drag any image into the spot of another image, and Fotor will swap their places. You can also double click any image, and it'll show you the edges of that image, which you can then click and drag to resize how it appears. You can also then click and drag the center of the image to reposition it within the cell.

If you click an image, little white tabs appear, which you can also click and drag to resize the cell itself.

And if you decide you aren't feeling a certain image anymore, right click it, and select "Change Photo" to swap it out with something else.

When everything is where you want it, you might still be wanting to tweak the colors on everything so that it feels more uniform.Click on an image, and you'll see a toolbar above the moodboard appear, with options like "Filters", amongst others. Though most of the settings in the "Filters" menu are reserved for paid users, you can usually get the job done by clicking the button for sliders to the right of "Filters". Explore those options, play with those settings, and tweak things around until you're happy! And if you're someone who does any dabbling with digital art in any capacity, don't be afraid to take this moodboard to your usual image editing software when you're done here, and do whatever other touchups this website can't do!

When you've tweaked what you want to tweak, here are some other tips!You can go to "Background" on the far left sidebar, and change the color that appears between the images. This is most noticeable if you did not reduce your "Margins" and "Spacing" to zero earlier, but even if you did, you might notice tiny little white cracks that have persisted becoming far less visible if you change the background color to something that matches the colors of the images themselves. In the top right corner above all the background color options is a color palette button, which you can click to use a more specific color.

You're also more than welcome to explore the other features on Fotor, such as adding "Elements" (like stickers) or Text to give some additional flavor.

When you're all done, it's time to export it!Click "Download" in the top right corner. If you see this text at the bottom of the popup, it means you're using features in your moodboard that are premium-only. To finish for free, go find the details it's referring to and remove them, or switch to non-premium versions of it. For me, it turned out my text was using a gradient, so I switched it to a "Solid" color.

You'll know you successfully got rid of all the premium content if you click "Download" again, and that text at the bottom is gone! The blue button should also no longer prompt you to purchase premium, but should say "Download".The default settings for exporting from Fotor are perfect for our needs! 2,000 x 2,000 px is just right for the use of a moodboard. If you are completing a moodboard for one of the swaps I host, please do not change these settings! You will need to only submit a moodboard that is 2,000 x 2,000 px square.If you'd like to rename the file, you can do that here, as well. Otherwise, click "Download", and you're good to go!

If you need to save the moodboard before it's done to come back to it later, click this little cloud button at the top!

That's it! Most aspects of this are pretty self-explanatory, but hopefully this little walkthrough helps to bridge any gaps! Happy creating!

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