Learn to understand photoshop layers - the ability to allow you to work in layers makes otherwise complex designs easy.

1. Photoshop Layers Tutorial
Layers - The Backbone of Photoshop
Adobe Photoshop is not cheap. There are certainly more
affordable photo editing software applications available on
the Internet but there are reasons why Photoshop is so
popular among professional web designers, photographers,
and graphic design specialists.
The ability of Photoshop to allow you to work in layers
makes otherwise complex designs easy.
If you are learning how to use Photoshop to do your graphic
designs than make sure you pay special attention to the
section on how to use layers.
To illustrate how layers work imagine you have a piece of
paper. This piece of paper is your background. You could
leave the background white or paint it any color you wish.
Now, let’s assume you want to add a photograph of a
sunset.
Your photograph of the sunset is on a transparent paper and
you lay it over the top of your background. The sunset
image is on your first layer. Now, let’s assume you want to
add some text.
Your text is on another sheet of transparent paper and you
lay it over the top. This is your second layer. You can add as
many layers as you wish. You can also change the order of
the layers.
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2. For example, if you decide you want the text layer to be
behind the sunset layer you can move the layers easily with
a few clicks of the mouse.
This is essentially the same way you create graphics and
complex images in Photoshop.
The beauty of layers is that if you decide for instance that
you don’t want a sunset and you would rather have an
image of a beach you can simply delete the sunset layer and
add an a new layer for the beach image without disturbing
the background or the text layer.
Working in Photoshop with layers allows you to experiment
without fear of damaging your original image. Layers also
allow the user to make changes without disrupting other
elements of the image.
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