by the android » 4/6/2003, 3:07 pm
Say that you found a picture online and wanna colour it... You start colouring it, and you reealize that it's much easier to put every colour/aspect of the picture on a different layer so you can edit them in parts instead of on one big layer. This way if you mess up, you can delete ONE aspect without wrecking everything you did.
Some layers are not directly editable, like the background layer. All you have to do is make a copy of it and delete the original.
If you're making a collage wallpaper, you can put all your images on different layers so you can easily move one image without ruining your work.
Basically, it just allows you to move different aspects individually.
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