The document discusses basic techniques for image manipulation, including resizing, cropping, color adjustment, brightness and contrast adjustments, and combining photos and text. It provides tips for changing background colors, combining multiple images, adding shadows, ensuring proper proportions when combining images, using color blending, and emphasizing focal points. Additional tips are provided for combining text, graphics and images, such as using transparent shapes behind text, matching fonts and shapes, aligning text and background, and using a clean background.