"Paulo" <ppauloo@bigpond.com> wrote in message
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> 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

This is like Edgar Rice Burroughs's depiction of Tarzan learning to read.
He found a copy of the bible in the jungle, and noticed, after many hours of
examination, that it has sheets of funny thin stuff with lots of black and
white marks on it. Check out some tutorials on how to accomplish specific
tasks using layers.

Here are a couple of the many tutorials that are available.
http://www.photoshopcafe.com/tutorials/layers/intro.htm
http://www.elated.com/articles/introduction-to-layers/
http://www.photoshoproadmap.com/Phot...ost-popular/1/

If you prefer visuals to reading, there are video tutorials too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlWfZeyvk9Y
http://www.video-tutes.com/Tute_details_1085.htm
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Mike Russell - www.curvemeister.com