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Originally Posted by Syxx_Killer
What's the point of layers?
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Layers are extremely useful. Simplest way to describe how they work is...Imagine that your image is composed of a background image with several transparent layers of glass on top of it. Each layer may have differet constituent parts of your image contained on it..text, another image, whatever. You can create as many layers as you need. Say i was making a sig, and i wanted to place text on top of image. I'd have my background image, then i'd create a new layer for text. By using text on a layer, I can move it around. change its shape, font.. perhaps create another layer underneath the text layer to make a nice drop shadow. If I simply put text on top of an image without creating a layer, then i'd be making a whole lot of work for myself if I made a mistake. If you do make an error with one of your layers, then the worst that would happen is, I'd have to delete that layer and start a new layer, rather than starting all over again from scratch with a new image. Hope that makes sense.
Best way to learn with these things is, play around with them. I did a 7 day course on Photoshop 5 years ago, which helped, but I learned mostly from trial and error...and I'm still discovering new things with it. There is always a multitude of online tutorials available also.