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.

No one knows who started the custom of framing pictures, but adding just the right frame or border is an act of artistry in itself. Image-editing software allows you take this creative task to a new technological level.