words under picture

[cindersister]

Hi everyone
I am having a problem with one of my pictures. I have a picture of my mom when she was 25. I have fixed it up so it looks quite nice for a 50 year old picture and I framed it using one of the frames in pe5. My problem is that this particular frame lets me put in a caption or title in a space below the picture. I have all of the different layers but I think I have them in the wrong order. I have a picture layer, a backup picture layer, a color layer, a word layer, and a frame layer. I put everything in there but I cannot make the frame and the word Mommy show up at the same time around my picture. Can someone please give me some help?
thanks!:)
Cindersis

[Diana]

Hi,

Thnk of your layers as sheet of transparencies layed on top of each other. Any layer that is fully covered with pixels will hide any layer beneath it. So it sounds like you need to drag your text and frame layers to the top of the stack to be visible. Hopefully you have your layers palette docked and open so you can see your layers. If not, go to your menu, under Window, and click a checkmark beside Palette Bin and Layers.

Hope this helps. If not, let us know.

Diana

[cats4jan]

When you have your layers palette open - click on your text layer

Then go up to the top of the screen
layer> arrange> bring to front

I had been manually grabbing my layers to shift them to the top - but when you have many, many layers, this is tedious.

I just discovered the "arrange" function - Can't believe it took me 9 months to discover this

For quick movements when you want to move a layer up or down only one or two steps - grabbing it in the layers palette and dragging it up or down is another option.

[cindersister]

Thank you both for these directions. I will see if I can rearrange the layers like you both have explained. I did save the palette so I just need to move things around. I will post the picture in my gallery when I get it together along with a few others.
Saundra:)

[cats4jan]

I was having grief with my text tool yesterday - this morning, when I reopened the file, I realized I had the text layer beneath a solid layer.

Even after a year of working with Elements, one can fall "victim" to text that wants to hide from you LOL

[cindersister]

:D Thank you all for you tutorials! Please visit my gallery to see the pictures of my parents that I redid. These pictures are 53 years old and the one of my father was badly folded and cracked. My mom had sent that picture to him when he was in the army so i placed it in the corner. Daddy was a track runner from high school and when he went into thw army they had him run track races for them in many other countries. Daddy has run more than 50 races some of them in High school and others in the army. He has a very very large trophy collection from the army and also from his high school in Baltimore Md. I am going o try to fix the pictures of him delivering mail and him recieving one of the many accomodations from Baltimore and from the army. :)
Saundi

[Wendy]

Oh you have done really well with those ... well done !! :)

Wendy

[JulieM]

Nice work! It's wonderful that you have these old pictures and are restoring them. It's a great story behind your dad's track picture. What does the LMP stand for on his shirt?

[cindersister]

thank you for the kind words. This has become the best hobby for me. I am not sure what the letters mean on my dad's shirt. I will ask him when next we speak. I am not well all the time so please excuse my tardiness in replying.
Saundi:)