|
Open up Image 2 (Ctrl + O) and drag and drop it on top of the first image. If your Layers window (Img 4) isn’t already open, open it up (Windows>Layers)
Let’s briefly go over what a layer is and then what all these buttons do in this fancy layers window (sometimes reffered to as the layers palette.)
Generally in photoshop you’re working with two or more images. Otherwise there’s little point to using it. Each image within your photoshop file is on its own layer. Think of layers as a group of glass panes stacked on top of one another. The bottom one might have a picture of a hillside, the middle one of a cloud, and the top one of a person. You see down to layers further on the bottom through holes in layers on the top. If you have a top layer blocking the whole image that’s all you’ll see. It’s like painting the top pane of glass in this pile of glass panes all black. Each layer takes up a small part of the picture and in that way you see all of the layers. Got it? Clear? Are you confused due to never having owned a stack of glass panes? Your loss. I’m moving on. Please ask me questions and I’ll try to clarify if that doesn’t make sense. I think it does.
Fortunately there’s only three main things you need to know about the layer palette. You can drag and drop layers in front of and behind one another, the trash  deletes layers, and the new layer icon  creates a new blank layer.
 Previous Page | Next Page 
|
