Getting used to photoshop

It seemed to take ages to get this far, but it has made me use Photoshop far more than before.  Should have made the background transparent for posting on the blog so that the images stand out more.  Fairly please with the result and the practice as a learning experience.

1. Choose the images to be used and process each as required.
2. Open new document in Photoshop.  Set size to that required, background content - in this case white (should have used either transparent or set a specific background colour. Set "Show Grid" as this will help with placing the images on the new document.
3. Create new layer
4. Crop original images to size required. Copy and Paste onto the new document layer.
5. Copy each element onto a new layer - will allow each element to be moved independently from other elements of the final image.
6. Once happy with the result flatten the image and save.  This still results in a 40Mb+ file so convert to jpeg file for print / web presentation.