Aligning objects on different layers?

Hello - Kinda new to this.
I have 3 photos 8x10 that I want to take and place into a larger photo (24 x 10) . I did a "duplicate layer" of each additional image and duplicated into the master image ( the canvas of which I resized to make 24 ").
I now have the images all in "one image" having 3 layers. Now I want to distribute the images across the width of the background layer.
I cant seem to be able to do this. It is as if it is trying to align layers and not the image that is on the layer ,
I can grab an image on a layer and move it around but I can seem select jus the image part and align those. It is as if I want to make the image itself which is on the layer be an object itself but it thinks the object is the layer ( the image and the alpha channel)
Could someone point me in the right direction.
Thanks

c.pfaffenbichler is correct about the background layer. You need to make that a normal layer and get rid of the black part. Ideally, you should convert that layer to a normal layer befor you change the canvas size. Do you want the two end images to line up with the edges of the canvas, or do you want all equally spaces in the image. If you want them abutting the esges, just move the two end images to the edges of the image. then you can use distrubute, or with just three images, you can move the middle one, and it should snap to the middle, if you have snap turned on.
If you want to distribute the layers away from the edges of the image, you can do as I suggested above with adding two line shapes to help distribute them. However, center distribute does not always work well, and can give you odd spacing. So I wrote a script that can equally space layers. You can down load the script:
https://cloud.acrobat.com/file/90e63df5-e1b8-4320-a098-362cf0fa3a70

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