Hole Punch Photo Effect Maker

Hole Punch Photo Effect Maker creates a playful, dimensional composition that looks as if a photo were cut with craft punches. Choose circles, stars, hearts, or a mix of all three, then adjust the number and size of the holes. Three placement styles are included: Auto Scatter for a lively arrangement with varied sizes, Photo Edges for punches around the perimeter, and Grid for an orderly repeated pattern. A visible layout seed makes every arrangement reproducible, so the same settings create the same result later.

The default SNS Image mode places the photo over a chosen background color. Each punched area reveals that background, while the matching piece of the original photo is shifted outward to create the layered effect seen in social photo collages. Select a 4:5 Instagram-friendly canvas, a 1:1 square, a 3:4 portrait, or the original photo ratio. The piece-offset control ranges from a subtle separation to a more energetic scattered composition.

Transparent-hole PNG mode leaves the canvas background transparent and removes the selected shapes from the photo alpha channel. Use this version as a reusable layer over another picture, colored paper texture, video, slide, or design project. Preview and export share the same seeded layout data, so hole positions do not unexpectedly change when the file is saved.

All compositing runs locally with the browser Canvas API. The selected photo is not sent to an external processing server, and no account is required. For a traditional multi-photo layout, try Image Collage Maker. Use Add Text to Image for captions, or Circle Crop Image when you need a single round avatar instead of punched holes.