How do I open or place a new layer BELOW the ORIGINAL. I have tried dragging and that doesn’t work. I have tried control/click when I create a layer and that doesn’t work. I have seen it done on a video tutorial but I can’t remember how they did it.
double click the background layer in the layers palette to convert it from a background to a normal layer. then create your new layer wherever you want.
you can’t be in indexed color mode when doing that (gif file).
And once you’ve done what dave said, you can control-click the new layer icon in the Layers Palette to create a new layer below the current one (or whichever one is currently highlighted if you have more than one).
Thank you so much! You wouldn’t believe how many places I have asked this question and everyone kept telling me to DRAG the layers but of course the background layer was locked and I couldn’t figure out how to UNLOCK it. Anyway . . . thanks
"…You wouldn’t believe how many places I have asked this question and everyone kept telling me to DRAG the layers but of course the background layer was locked…"
Ohhhh, YES, I would believe it! 😀 LOL! I can’t tell you the # of times I did something similar and could not, for the life of me, figure out why "photoshop wasn’t working"! 😛
Then my eye spotted the lock on the layer… hahahah!! GLAD you got this sorted, (and even MORE glad that someone besides me had this ‘problem’!) 😉
regarding "where’s my cursor" . . . Been there and have done that one too! You guys are great. Glad I found this forum because I am sure I will be back! Have a great weekend.
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