How to use collages, templates and storyboards {freebies!}

July 1, 2010 Posted in Freebies {actions, presets & templates}, Photoshop & Elements

Melissa C. emailed me this week asking about my work with collages. I thought it was a pretty important topic for us to cover so here goes!

{Types}

There are a few different types:

Collages and storyboards are one photo with many different images within it. Like this:

This storyboard is sized 10x30 for printing

Then there are web-ready templates for blogging which are the same look but they’re automatically a decent size for blogging, Facebook and emailing. Here’s one I like:

{Method}

You can make your own templates which can be a time consuming venture. And it’s so hard to get things straight and proportionate and who needs the hassle? There are packs you can buy and free ones allover the web. I’ll tell you my personal faves below.

Each template will work in a different way. The Album Cafe uses actions which come with the templates to fill them. So does MCP Actions.