For example, go to the Tools panel and select the Move tool and then click on the cloth photo and drag - and only that photo moves, because only that layer is selected.So, its important to understand, what layers are and why to use them - which well cover in this video.
If youre following along, open this layered image from the downloadable practice files for this tutorial. ![]() To get a sense of how layers are constructed, lets take a look at this Layers panel. Ive closed my other panels, so that we can focus on the Layers panel. By the way: If your Layers panel isnt showing, go up to the Window menu and choose Layers from there. The Layers panel is where you go to select and work with layers. In this image there are 4 layers, each with separate content. If you click the Eye icon to the left of a layer, you can toggle the visibility of that layer off and on. And keep your eye on the image, so you can see whats on that layer. Ill do the same for the cloth layer and for the pattern layer. You can see that the bottom layer, the Background layer, is filled with white, because this image started with a new blank image preset with a white background. Lets turn on all the other layers again by clicking in the empty box just to the left of each layer to add the Eye icon back in. A quick way to turn off all the layers except the tailor layer, is to hold down the Option key on the Mac, or the ALT key on the PC, and click on the Eye icon to the left of the tailor layer. In the Document window, you can see that this layer contains just the one small photo surrounded by a gray and white checkerboard pattern. That pattern represents transparent pixels, which allow us to see down through the corresponding part of this layer to the content of the layers below. So, lets turn that content back on by going back to the Layers panel, again holding the Option key on the Mac or the ALT key on the PC and clicking on the Eye icon to the left of the tailor layer. And all the other layers and their Eye icons come back into view. So again: You might think of layers like a stack of pints of glass, each with its own artwork and in some cases transparent areas that let you see down through to the layers below. The biggest benefit of having items on separate layers like this, is that youll be able to edit pieces of an image independently without affecting the rest of the image. Lets say you wanted to edit or move just the small photo of the cloth being cut. To do that, youd have to select the layer that contains that photo. Go to the Layers panel and click on the cloth layer just to the right of the layer name. Now that the cloth layer is selected, any editing you do will affect only that layer.
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