Templates are obviously very desirable features to have in your image editing software. The more of them you have to work with, the better.To see if your image-editing program offers a template for a particular project,search the Help database using a descriptive name for the project. For example, try “calendar” or “family tree.”

If you search the PhotoSuite Help database using the word “template,” you can view a list of all the available types of project templates included with the program.

Creating your own template requires saving a completed project to a file, and using that project as a starting point the next time you begin a similar one. This option works if you don’t have a template in your image-editing program for a particular project, or you don’t like the ones the manufacturer has included.

You can create a template simply by saving a completed project in a digital file format, such as JPEG, that allows you to modify it in the future. For example, suppose you create a cute greeting card for your mother, and a week later need to create one for your boss. Simply open the file in which you’ve saved mom’s card and modify the text and images as necessary to create a proper acknowledgment for your boss. You can open the file and modify it again and again in the future as the birthdays of other friends and family members come up.