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:
Making a before-and-after
To show the start and finish of an edit.
Create your own wall guides
Before you choose your print size, see how it will look on your wall.
Interesting way to show text on a photo
Something interesting for you to try.
Grids tutorial
Grids are really useful for transforming photos and designing layouts.
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.
How to make a star shape
We all need to do it sometimes, but it's not easy to find.