In Photoshop CS, the ability to work with layers is a useful and important skill. Once you get comfortable using layers, a world of image editing options will open up. You will be able break down your image into several component parts, giving you the ability to single out and modify one part, without affecting any of the others. You will also be able to make parts of the image visible or invisible with a click of your mouse. Because you can work with each layer independently, you will be able to create and combine many different effects for different parts of your image.

In this lesson you will learn what a layer is and how to create one. In addition, you will how to delete a layer, how to recover a deleted layer, and how to rename a new layer.