Creating Waves, Scallops, & Zigzags
Yay for another installment of Tips & Tricks from the Q!
First up — creating waves. Misty Cato has a fabulous tutorial about creating wave shapes using PSE. This technique works in PS as well — the wave filter is in the same place: Filters > Distort > Wave. Trying playing around with the various settings in the filter to see how it alters your shape. 
You can make fat waves by using a fat rectangle, and skinnier waves by starting with a skinny rectangle.
Second — creating scallop or zigzag edges. Steph posted a fantastic tutorial about a week ago on The Daily Digi, with great instructions on how to create a scallop or zigzag edge.
And, of course, if you don’t want to do it yourself, you can find lots of fun shape templates on the market. I stopped by Sweet Shoppe Designs and found these:
Check their store for more shape templates.
If you create a layout using either of the tutorials, link me up so I can see — and be sure to pass along a thank you to Misty and Steph for their awesome tuts!
P.S. If you’re looking for the winners from the Facebook drawing, newsletter drawing, blog drawing, and December challenge, scroll down to the next post.
wow! these tutorials are great. i’ve been wanting to learn how to make those waves =) thanks for the links. and those templates are awesome!
what fun templates! edges can really make a difference on a layout!
Thank you Thank you Thank you for these awesome tutorials. Trust me when I say I was doing this sort of thing the WAY hard way — the scallops anyways. Oh man was I doing it the hard way, lol. This will save loads of time
Thank you so much!! 
I agree with Jen. There’s always so many different ways to do the same thing in Photoshop, but these rock! Thanks so much for sharing these.
These are great. They will really help in creating layouts!
Thank you for sharing these tut links!