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Creating Eye-Catching Collages with Grids and Smart Objects in Photoshop

Discover how to create striking, professional collages in Photoshop by combining grids, frames, and Smart Objects into a flexible, repeatable workflow across two practical sessions.

Days and Dates:

What time:9:30 to 11:00 am

Tuesday July. 7 2026

TuesdayJuly 14 2026

Session 1:

Combine your favourite images into bold, eyecatching collages—perfect for posters, magazine-style layouts and creative storytelling. In part one, you’ll get hands-on with Photoshop’s Frame tool, text placeholders and shape-based clipping masks to build clean, professional layouts fast. You’ll also create and save reusable layout guides, document presets and templates so you can return to your designs again and again.

Session 2:

In part two, we’ll take layouts further by exploring alternative ways to create image frames—using clipping masks, selections and vector shapes—so you can choose the approach that suits your style. You’ll learn how Smart Objects make it simple to swap images in and out without starting over, and you’ll compare Place Embedded vs Place Linked to streamline your workflow and stay organised.

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About Celia

I am Lecturer in Computing and IT Trainer specialising in Microsoft and Adobe application training, with a passion for flower photography and image editing software.

Combined with my teaching skill, and my love of image making I am able to offer a wide range of Photoshop, Affinity,  photography and image editing courses, workshops and talks.

I am delighted to be an educator for Royal Photographic Digital Imaging Group and also to run workshops regularly for Camversation I use my photographs of flower images to create contemporary wall art on print, canvas, metal and acrylic.

For many years I exhibited my work in exhibitions and was proud to be an organiser of the Arundel Gallery Trail.

Celia Henderson Photography | Contemporary Flower Photography Wall Art

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