Hexagon Photo Collage Maker
A hexagon collage looks good because hexagons tessellate — they interlock with no gaps, which a grid of circles cannot do. That is also what makes it hard to build by hand: the rows have to be offset by half a hexagon and spaced at three quarters of the hexagon height, or the pattern falls apart.
The honeycomb here is generated mathematically rather than drawn, so it stays exact at any photo count and any canvas size. Each hexagon is a real six-sided clip, not a square with corners hidden.
A honeycomb also works well as a single accent rather than the whole canvas. Place three or four hexagon frames from the Photo Frames panel in a corner, leave the rest of the canvas as flat colour, and you get a cleaner, more designed result than filling every inch.
Open this template in the editor
Recommended canvas size
1080 × 1080 px (square)
Honeycombs read best when they are roughly as wide as they are tall. On a very wide or very tall canvas the pattern stretches into rows or columns and loses the effect.
How to make it
- Upload your photos Seven photos gives the classic honeycomb — one centre with six around it. Any number works.
- Open the Styles tab and tap Hexagon The Styles tab is in the Layouts & Occasion Templates panel.
- Check the crops A hexagon crops more aggressively at the corners than a square. If a face is being clipped, select that photo and use Crop to recentre it.
- Set a border A thin white border between hexagons makes the honeycomb structure obvious. Without it the photos merge.
- Export Ultra HD PNG. Use a matching background colour, since the corners of the canvas will show through.
Tips that actually change the result
- Portrait photos with the subject centred survive a hexagon crop best. Wide group photos lose people at the edges.
- The background colour matters more than in a rectangular collage, because the canvas corners are always visible around the honeycomb.
- You can also drop individual hexagon frames from the Photo Frames panel and place them by hand if you want an irregular arrangement.
What usually goes wrong
A hexagon cuts the corners hard, and the people at the ends of a group shot are the first to go. Centred single subjects survive it best.
The canvas corners are always visible around a honeycomb, so the background is part of the composition here in a way it is not in a rectangular grid.
Past about twelve, the shapes get small enough that the tessellation reads as texture and you lose the photographs entirely.
Without a thin gap the hexagons merge into one another and the honeycomb structure disappears.
Questions
How many photos do I need for a hexagon collage?
Seven gives the classic honeycomb — one in the middle, six around it. The layout adapts to any count from one upward, but three to twelve looks best.
Why are the corners of my photos cut off?
A hexagon has less area than the square it fits inside, so more of the photo is cropped than you might expect. Select the photo and use Crop to recentre the subject, or switch the photo fit to "Fit" to see the whole photo inside the hexagon.
Can I make the hexagons different sizes?
Not in the honeycomb style, which is a regular tiling. For irregular sizes, add hexagon frames individually from the Photo Frames panel and scale each one.