On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 10:31:37 +1000, Paulo <ppauloo@bigpond.com> wrote:

>Hi! folks! Managed to come to grips with many of the features but
>stumped with layers.
>
>Start from file/new and get a white rectangle on the workspace, and
>get a thumbnail marked background with a partically locked icon in the
>layer pallete.
>
>I create a new layer from layer/new/layer menu and see it as a hatched
>layer 1. I ensure that it is active (highlighted?) then open an image,
>expecting it to appear on the layer one. but the image combines with
>the background and makes one image labled background.
>
>Tried locking, changing image size and other strategies in my megere
>repotoire to no avail. Athough can't seem to get rid to the partically
>locked icon on the background layer.
>
>How do I get subsequent images onto different layers, so that I can
>combine them on to white background. In short what am I doing wrong!
>
>Thanks for you time. Photoshop CS3 V10
>
>Bob

Used with Win XP SP2.