BraveCLHow to make a six-photo Christmas recap on Mac
Create a Christmas year-in-review collage from six family photos, with a headline, dated captions and a balanced six-photo layout.
- What you'll achieve
- You will finish with a single Christmas year-in-review collage showing six photos, a family headline, and a date and caption for every memory.
- What you need
- Christmas Collage Card 4.0 for Mac.
- Six local photos for your family-year recap (the app supports three to twelve photos).
A year deserves more than one holiday portrait. Christmas Collage Card lets you bring six photos from your Mac into one seasonal page, give the year a headline, and add a caption and date for each memory. This walkthrough follows the same six-photo result shown in the app's first Mac App Store screenshot.
1.Open the year-in-photos editor
Start in My Year. The blank page invites you to choose local photos; click Add Photos to begin.
Christmas Collage Card showing an empty Our Year in Photos project and Add Photos button 2.Add six photos from your Mac
Use Add Photos to choose six different pictures. They appear in the memory list and on the year-in-photos page.
Six family photos imported into a festive three-by-two collage on the year page 3.Set the family headline and year
Open Story, enter a headline in Year title, and set the year. The example uses Our Family Year and 2026.
Story panel with Our Family Year headline, year 2026 and six photos on a holiday page 4.Caption and date the first memory
Return to Memories and select the first photo. Enter a short Memory caption, turn on Year has date, and choose Memory date. The example says Winter reunion.
First memory selected with Winter reunion caption, dated January 11, 2026 5.Add captions to the next two photos
Choose memories two and three in Memories and fill in Memory caption and Memory date for each. The example includes Snowy mornings and New puppy.
Third memory selected with New puppy caption and date beside three captioned photos 6.Finish all six captions and dates
Continue with photos four, five and six, giving each a caption and date. Check the Memories list to make sure no placeholder captions remain.
Six photo memories now captioned and dated, with Mountain walk selected in the inspector 7.Choose the Six Moments layout
Open Layouts and choose Six Moments for a balanced two-row, six-photo grid. The alternative Big News emphasizes one photo.
Layouts panel with Six Moments selected and all six photos visible on the year recap 8.Review the finished family year page
Return to Memories and review the headline, all six photos, dates, and captions together. Use Export when you are ready to prepare your result.
Finished Christmas family year collage with six dated, captioned photos and the Our Family Year headline
After the last step
The completed page is ready for the app's export workflow.
Tips
Keep each memory caption concise so it remains readable on the finished page.
Select one photo to adjust its Fill or Fit crop and focal position without changing the other photos.
If a six-photo grid is not the look you want, compare Six Moments with Big News under Layouts.
Watch outDo not use the example year as a personal recap: the app marks it as a preview and does not let you share it as your story.
Watch outThe app may warn when a caption does not fit or an image has insufficient resolution for an output.
