Mastering Adobe Photoshop Elements

An introduction to Layers

Layers is a feature found in Elements that I think will dramatically change the way you edit your pictures. More importantly, it will also significantly expand your creative potential.

Layers are used when we want to include more than one element in a file (image, text, or graphics) or when we want to edit individual parts of an image without affecting the rest of the picture. The following image shows a depiction of how layers work in an image:

The preceding image is a rather scary 3D representation of a regular multilayered Photoshop file. This collage contains 50 different components, sitting on 40 separate layers. Each ...