A basic grid can serve as a springboard to a whole album’s worth of varied yet coordinating layouts. Digital diva Renee Pearson is making four of her popular schemes available here for you to give it a try. The fully layered files work in both Photoshop and Photoshop Elements. Click here to download the templates (PSD format).

Materials Photoshop (Adobe) • paper from “Quiet Love Solids” and Quiet Love Paper” kits; swirls from “Anitquated Swirls” kit (scrapartist.com) • Tiranti Solid LET and AL Afternoon Delight fonts

Slip your own papers and photos into their appropriate layered spots and you’ve got fast, well designed pages. Use your Flip Horizontal or Flip Vertical commands to change your page orientation and each scheme becomes four or more different layouts.

See what our board members did with Renee’s schemes in the April/May 2007 issue of Digital Scrapbooking magazine. Find the featured article on page 56.