Transparent Layer Help?!?!?

[Phoenix Wynde]

You know, it's great to have tutorials, especially for newbs likes myself, but it's very friggin frustrating when I'm being told TO do something instead of being shown HOW to do it.

Perfect example: "Create a new transparent layer on top..."

How on God's green friggin earth do you do this? There's too many tutorials telling me to make a transparent layer but not a friggin one to actually show me HOW TO!

Because of this, in the end I miss out.

It'd be great if someone could show me how, step by step to do the things required of me within these tutorials. Pictures would be nice, too.

Yeah, this might be a simple thing to ask for help with, but I am, after all, a newb. Besides, not only will I benefit from the help, but so will so many others after me. Thanks.

[tamlin]

1. With an image open in Photoshop, click the top layer in your layer stack (in the Layers palette) to make it active.

2. Either -
From the pull-down Menus, select Layer > New > Layer
Or -
Click the Create a new layer icon at the bottom of the Layer palette. It's the icon that looks like a little sheet of paper with a folded-over corner.

You now have a new transparent layer at the top of the stack.

I can't check at the moment (don't have PS on this machine I'm currently using), but I'm pretty sure this kind of thing is covered in the Help file.

[Phoenix Wynde]

Originally Posted by dewdman

You know, it's great to have tutorials, especially for newbs likes myself, but it's very friggin frustrating when I'm being told TO do something instead of being shown HOW to do it.

Perfect example: "Create a new transparent layer on top..."

How on God's green friggin earth do you do this? There's too many tutorials telling me to make a transparent layer but not a friggin one to actually show me HOW TO!

Because of this, in the end I miss out.

It'd be great if someone could show me how, step by step to do the things required of me within these tutorials. Pictures would be nice, too.

Yeah, this might be a simple thing to ask for help with, but I am, after all, a newb. Besides, not only will I benefit from the help, but so will so many others after me. Thanks.

(The reason I asked about this is because I was actually looking for something that said "Create New Transparent Layer" that I could click on. I don't have the manual for this program as it was given to me without one.)

[zlatiborac]

Press F1 and you'll get help
When I write tuts I always try to show where the button you have to click is. But not everyone is like me