How to Add and Work With Layers in Adobe Photoshop Elements 15 - Part 2

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During this Photoshop Elements 15 tutorial video, we will be working with layers. You will learn how to add layers by copying and pasting a selection, as well as how to delete, flatten, link/unlink, merge layer and group layers

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Hello again and welcome back to our course on PSE 15.
In this section we’re going to continue working with layers and I’m going to cover quite a few other aspects of their use in PSE 15. I’m going to start by reopening the image that I closed at the end of the preceding section. Note that I saved it in PSD format and it has four layers. The top layer is an adjustment layer which is currently invisible.

When we edited the adjustment layer in the preceding section I right clicked on the layer and you could see that a layer has quite a long contextual menu. And one of the important options on a layer is Delete Layer. And at any time if I really definitely don’t need a layer anymore I would that option to delete the layer. Note that’s not the same as making it invisible. If I just make it invisible I can reintroduce it at any stage. If I delete it it really is deleted.

The other thing that I mentioned at the end of the preceding section is that if I were to save this image as a JPG although all of the information that you can see here would be in that JPG from the point of view of what you can see in the image all of the layers would be sort of merged together if you like. Now that process is called Flattening. And one of the options on this contextual menu is Flatten Image. If I flatten an image what happens is all of the layers are basically merged into one. And if I have something like an adjustment layer the effect of that adjustment layer will be incorporated into that process provided the layer is visible. Now in this case that hue saturation layer at the top is marked as invisible. So if I flatten this image that hue saturation layer will have no effect because of course it’s having no effect here.

If I flatten the image, Discard hidden layers? Yes. The image is now flattened. There’s absolutely no effect on the image that you can see. What I’ve now got is a new background layer. And if I wanted to I could start again. So again I could make a copy of this. I could introduce other text layers and so on. But I couldn’t treat Exmoor Ponies, that text, as a separate layer because that separation has gone.

On this occasion what I really want to do is to carry on from where I left off. So what I could do is to close the PSD file without saving changes and reopen it or of course if I go up to my History Panel, click on Open and everything is fine again.
Let’s now look at other ways of adding to this image. And what I’m going to do next is to open another one of the images that we worked on earlier in the course.

And you may remember when we worked on this lonely sheep that we had a selection made. What I’m going to do now is to copy that selection to the clipboard. I’ve used the keyboard shortcut Control-C. And then I’m going to go back to my ponies. So at the top of the Layers panel there is an icon, Create a New Layer. Note also that on the Layer menu there is a New Layer option. My new layer if you look over here, note the hatching here indicating transparency. What I’m going to do now is to go to the Edit menu and do a Paste. And now I have my lonely sheep and it’s joined the Exmoor Ponies in the field.

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