Layers Day 1 - Help!!

[gailani]

Hi - I'm having a problem with the eraser. When erasing, all I see are grey checks instead of the orange as it shows in the training video. What am I doing wrong?

Also, I was reading in a different thread about a commit or transform function?

I have Photoshop Elements 4.0 installed on a Mac and don't have a transform or commit button. Is this something I need?

Appreciate any help I can get! Thanks much,

Gail

[Wendy]

Hi Gail ...

When you erase then soever what is beneath the image shows in the gap you have erase ... in this case you have nothhing below and the checkerboard tells you that the area is trnsparent :)

The commit transform buttons & cancel transform buttons show up when you use Image Transform ... once you have used it on something then look at the top of the screen and you will see two icons.

One is a circle with a line across it (cancel transform)
and the other a checkmark (commit transform)

Clicking on one or the other lets you accept or discard the transform :)

Wendy

[gailani]

Thanks, Wendy! I figurerd out the Image Transform issue, but still don't understand why, when I'm erasing, I'm seeing a transparent area instead of the orange, as it shows on the video. I rechecked the video again to make sure I had everything set up exactly as it was in the video, and expected to see the orange cover part of the daisies picture as shown in the video. Why am I getting seeing the transparent part of the layer when I erase and not orange? I'm so confused!

Thanks so much for your response and help!

Gail

[kimi_boo]

Hi Gail.... :)

make sure your orange layer in under what you are erasing.
you can just drag in below the other layer.

[gailani]

Thanks, Kimi. You mean in the actual window where the pictures are displayed, correct? Not in the pallette? I followed exactly the way the video displayed - I had the orange layer displayed. Then I dragged the daisy layer on top of it. I clicked on the daisies and moved it as shown in the video. That part worked fine. So the orange picture displays underneath the daisies as shown in the video. Then I clicked on the eraser tool. When the eraser circle displays, however, I cannot position that circle on the orange. It forces me to erase on the daisies. Oh my gosh - I hope you can understand what I'm trying to explain!

Thanks so much for any more help. I feel so stupid.

Gail

[GaryK]

Gail

From the sounds of it your layers in your layers pallet are correct.. orange below daisies.
I wonder if the eyeball on the orange layer is off. That would leave a tranparent background behind the daisies.:)

[kimi_boo]

Gail... are you sure your daisy layer is highlighted?

you could have the wrong layer highlighted and that is why it is erasing the wrong image.

[gailani]

Thanks so much for all your advice. I finally got it to work. Not sure why or how, but it did!

Whew.

Thanks again for all your help,

Gail:confused: :D