Most digital painting and cinematography tools allow you to use these guides when framing your subjects. In concept art, photography, and film production, you can create balanced and visually compelling compositions under any artistic constraints.
Our free Composition Grid works for any type of artwork. Simply upload the image in the field below and select from the list of most common compositional overlays. Create professionally framed visuals by understanding how your image looks on a compositional level. You can achieve more cinematically accurate art and illustrations by using professional composition grids.
A Composition Grid is a visual tool used by artists and filmmakers to organize elements within a frame to create balance, tension, or harmony.
By utilizing mathematical overlays such as the Rule of Thirds, the Golden Ratio (Fibonacci Spiral), and Dynamic Symmetry, creators can guide the viewer’s eye and strengthen the narrative impact of an image. Whether you are applying cinematic letterboxes to check your aspect ratio or using a triangle grid for a complex digital painting, these overlays provide the structural foundation for professional visual storytelling.
The most common grids include the Rule of Thirds, the Golden Ratio (or Phi Grid), the Golden Spiral, and the Rule of Odds. Our tool allows you to toggle between these and customize their colors for maximum visibility against your artwork.
Yes. Our tool allows you to export either the final image with the grid applied or just the custom overlay itself as a transparent file to be used as a layer in software like Photoshop or Premiere Pro.
The Golden Ratio ($1.618$) is a mathematical proportion often found in nature. Using it as a composition grid helps artists create a natural, organic flow that is inherently pleasing to the human eye.
Letterboxes (like 2.39:1 Anamorphic) change the vertical space of your frame. By previewing your work with these overlays, you can ensure that your subjects are properly framed for the final theatrical or widescreen delivery.
