And you'll see this option, Auto-Select: Layer is checked. Now here's a bonus tip: With the Move tool selected, take a look at its Options bar. With both layers selected, you can click and drag either of those photos and they'll move together.
To select the tailor layer too, hold down the Command key on a Mac or the Ctrl key on a PC, and click on the tailor layer. Over in the Layers panel, we already have the cloth layer selected. And to do that, you need to select more than one layer. By the way: There are some editing activities, like moving layers, that you can do to more than one layer at a time. For example, if you painted on the image or applied a filter, as you'll do later in this tutorial series, those edits would affect only the selected cloth layer and not the rest of the image. And this applies to other kinds of edits too. For example, go to the Tools panel and select the Move tool and then click on the cloth photo and drag - and only that photo moves, because only that layer is selected.
Now that the cloth layer is selected, any editing you do will affect only that layer. Go to the Layers panel and click on the cloth layer just to the right of the layer name. To do that, you'd have to select the layer that contains that photo. Let's say you wanted to edit or move just the small photo of the cloth being cut. Follow along with this example to see what I mean. The biggest benefit of having items on separate layers like this, is that you'll be able to edit pieces of an image independently without affecting the rest of the image. So again: You might think of layers like a stack of pints of glass, each with its own artwork and in some cases transparent areas that let you see down through to the layers below. And all the other layers and their Eye icons come back into view.
So, let's turn that content back on by going back to the Layers panel, again holding the Option key on the Mac or the ALT key on the PC and clicking on the Eye icon to the left of the tailor layer. That pattern represents transparent pixels, which allow us to see down through the corresponding part of this layer to the content of the layers below.
In the Document window, you can see that this layer contains just the one small photo surrounded by a gray and white checkerboard pattern. A quick way to turn off all the layers except the tailor layer, is to hold down the Option key on the Mac, or the ALT key on the PC, and click on the Eye icon to the left of the tailor layer. Now let's take a look at just one layer, the tailor layer. Let's turn on all the other layers again by clicking in the empty box just to the left of each layer to add the Eye icon back in. You can see that the bottom layer, the Background layer, is filled with white, because this image started with a new blank image preset with a white background. I'll do the same for the cloth layer and for the pattern layer. And keep your eye on the image, so you can see what's on that layer. So, I'm going to turn off the visibility of the tailor layer. If you click the Eye icon to the left of a layer, you can toggle the visibility of that layer off and on. In this image there are 4 layers, each with separate content. The Layers panel is where you go to select and work with layers. By the way: If your Layers panel isn't showing, go up to the Window menu and choose Layers from there. I've closed my other panels, so that we can focus on the Layers panel. To get a sense of how layers are constructed, let's take a look at this Layers panel. Each layer contains separate pieces of content. You might think of layers like separate flat pints of glass, stacked one on top of the other.
If you're following along, open this layered image from the downloadable practice files for this tutorial. So, it's important to understand, what layers are and why to use them - which we'll cover in this video. Layers are the building blocks of any image in Photoshop.