What techniques do you prefer for creative photo montage backgrounds?

Hello all,
Do you create your backgrounds in Photoshop? After Effects? Motion? What techniques do you use?
Do you download backgrounds? Use a specific program with templates? Have you seen any photo montages lately with outstanding techniques you would like to imitate?
Feel free to post links.
I want to do something more creative than the basic montages I've been doing and am just looking for ideas.

Back in the days before digital juice and the like, I'd spend about half an online session generating moving backgrounds with a designer/client of mine before adding the content. Abstract stills growing, rotating, long dissolves one to the next, etc, etc. Now I do that sort of bg with one or several jumpbacks.
One of the old chestnuts (I say that because i've been doing it for years-- but clients never seem to get tired of it) Is to put your photos over a jumpback or other bg, apply an 8 point garbage matte, feather the edges, add a little distortion to make them look tilted one way or another, keyframe a little forward motion, dissolve in and out. If you play with the sizes, you can get two, three, four images on the screen all dissolving in and out. With the right sappy music appropriate to the subject, it can be very effective.

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