Articles: Templates, Storyboards & Collages
I've written a lot of tutorials about storyboard and collage design. Here they are in roughly the right order for learning from the ground up:
Simple clipping mask and storyboard tutorial
Introduction to the basics of design.
Simple storyboard tutorial – part 2: multiple photos
Designs featuring two or more photos.
More about storyboards: Intersecting shapes
Getting a bit more creative with layouts.
Rounded corner shapes
Simple method for an eye-catching design element.
Easy, funky, crazy clipping masks
This is so much fun!
Curved box method
How to make a wave-shaped box in Photoshop
And here are some general articles about templates, web images and design elements:
Creating, saving and using a watermark
Everyone needs a watermark for their web images
Adding a scanned signature to a photo
It's a really easy way to personalise your images.
Grids tutorial
Grids are really useful for transforming photos and designing layouts.
Interesting way to show text on a photo
Something interesting for you to try.
Create your own wall guides
Before you choose your print size, see how it will look on your wall.
How to make a star shape
We all need to do it sometimes, but it's not easy to find.
Making a before-and-after
To show the start and finish of an edit.