Adobe Photoshop CS5 One-on-One

Figure 5-8.

Adding a Background layer is a two-step process:

• Click the icon at the bottom of the Layers panel to create
  a new layer (which will land above our currently selected
  Glass 1 layer).


• Then from the Layer menu, choose New→Background
  from Layer (which will move the new layer to the bottom
  of the layer stack).
  The new Background layer will automatically fill with white
  (the current background color), and the transparency grid in
  the image will disappear because we’ll be seeing through to the
  white background, as witnessed in Figure 5-9.

The transparency grid is now

better contrasted with the white

background in the Glass 1 image

The white Background layer is

visible through the transparent area

of the Glass 1 layer

Figure 5-9.

6. Turn on the guidelines. Photoshop gives you the ability to lay
   nonprinting guidelines over your image so that you can pre-
   cisely position elements in your composition. To turn on the
   guidelines, and see the guides I’ve already established for later
   use, choose View→Show→Guides.

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