Question about creating templates

Is thier a sticky somewhere that explains in general terms how to do this. I believe I figured out how to get my background layer and I was able to crop a few photos and fade them in. However, I am having a tough time trimming people or a person from a photo and placing it into the new document. I've tried using the lasso polygon tool and just can't get it right. I found a great tutorial on the web the other night but thunderstorms knocked our power out and took the webpage before I could bookmark it. Can someone point me in the right direction?

brandicm wrote in post #3169049
...trimming people or a person from a photo and placing it into the new document...?

If I understand what your trying to do - I would use the clone tool.

If my goal is to have a person (or part of an image) placed onto another image start off with the clone tool. You'll sample the starting (eg. the person noise and start cloning on the new document where you want the noise positioned - you'll probally want to place this clonning onto it's own layer) point and make sure you have the aligned box checked - then start cloning in the person (image) into the new image. Start off small and use a low opacity. If you have the aligned box checked you can start and stop and make corrections alon the way. when you get the the person edges (zoom in and work with a small brush).