Introduction to Photoshop
By Ades Tynyshev2005-06-15
Photoshop uses Layers for managing multiple (separate) objects in one window, to open your Layers panel go to Window > Layers. If you have used other image editing tools that use layers this should be familiar to you. But if you have not, just think of the Layers as Stack of books, and imagine yourself as looking at this stack of books from top. For example you can see the cover of the first book on top of the stack without a problem, however the cover of the books that are below cannot be seen that well, depending on how you have placed the books.
As you see from the image below, the Blue Circle is on Layer 2 (top) background being the Layer 0 (bottom) and Red Rectangle is on Layer 1 (middle). As I have said, layer that is on top (here it is - Layer 2) will cover the layers below (which is Layer 1 and Layer 0). Thus you see the Circle covering Rectangle. And our background is a white color which is visible from the sides of the circle and rectangle.
Here I have moved Red Rectangle to Top, as you see now Red Rectangle is the one covering Circle. To move the particular layer just click on it with your mouse and while still holding move it up or down.
Active Layer: Active layer is the layer which you are working on, for example from the image above we can see that Active Layer is the Red Rectangle (Layer 2) - how do we know it, because it is highlighted (selected).
And if you want to move particular object you should select it's respective layer first, then only you can move it. Otherwise you will end up moving something else. The "Eye" icon on the left of the layers means they are currently visible, if you toggle them off then the object will dissappear (will become invisible) as shown below:
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