azengel

I'm struggling withoout a user manual. I tried the "Cutting out images" by Simon Brown. He talks about a pen and line tool to outline a image. Is that the same as the pencil? What is a pen and line tool?

Sorry I'm such a dunce. I ahven't used Photoshop so some of the techniques are new to me. Is there a useres manual anywhere? On a separate topic, how do you get a photo to reside in a new layer? I open a photo, then add a layer and open a second photo but the second one and the first one are both labeled as backgrouind.

I openned a jpg as suggested and the eraser DID work! What does that tell us?

I was told of paint.net because I needed to make a gif transparent. That worked fine so I thought I'd explore paint some more. However, I can't seem to make anything work. The eraser does nothing, recoloring does nothing, I can't get new photos to go to a new layer, on and on. I'm opening pictures in the jpg format - is that the problem? Is there something more I need to do to activate paint? I'm using Windows 7 Home premium on a one year old HP desktop.