k i just bought photoshop version7.0 and i wanna start to make coo background and sig like urs and text effect too so can some1 help me out and tell me info about the wut are the layers for and all those thing please i tryed tutorials but i want some1 to help me with my tools

i recommand experminting all by yourself. You dont want to learn to copy someone style, instead devolpe your own.

k just 1 question wut the layers are used for?

well each layer can have something drawn on it. Like lets say i draw a dragon on one layer, and the background on another layer. I can now move the dragon layer without even touching the background layer. Easy to edit too, and you can add difernt effect to each layer.

yea but how do i put the dragon ins the background for example

you put the layers you want in front of it (so higher on the layer palette).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EX.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bad : Dragon will be infront of everything

 

 

 

Layer 1 - dragon

 

 

 

Layer 2 - ground

 

 

 

Layer 3 - person

 

 

 

Layer 4 - Trees

 

 

 

Layer 5 - Background

 

 

 

Should change it to

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Good: dragon will be behind everything

 

 

 

Layer - 1 ground

 

 

 

Layer - 2 person

 

 

 

Layer - 3 trees

 

 

 

Layer 4 - Dragon

 

 

 

Layer 5 - background (cant move this because its locked).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Just drag the other layers over the dragon one :).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To put the dragon in the background you have to crop him out first (use magic wand) or press ctrl + alt + x. When you use Ctrl + alt+ x a screen will come up. Zoom in around the dragon (or drag with the magnifying glass around him) and get the brush tool. Hold Ctrl and trace around him. When you've done that fill him in with the bucket and press okay. Now your layer will be transparent and have the dragon only. Move him in a layer above the background one and merge them :).

it is already in the background

 

 

 

 

 

 

as you can see the weird smily is in the background, but its a differnt layer. I can now select the layer, and move it around without doing anything to the background or other layers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

as mentioned. The higher up it is in the order or layers, it will overlap everything below it.

It depends on what you want to do. Pixel, all you really need is paint. Abstract, PS and bryce Or 3ds max. Brushing, PS and alot of brushes. Landscape, Terragan or Bryce.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tutorials are at http://www.spoono.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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u can try to use tutorials to help u figure out what different things are used for and stuf. . it'll help let u get a feel of how to use it better. . .but once where u know most of the different things it can do . .then u should experiment all by yourself