Is there a tutorial for layers for dummies

I have been messing with ps for a long time but avoiding anything to do with layers...I guess it is time to learn...Is there an easy way to learn layers ie making a layer, saving a layer, editing layers ...in my advancing years we have to go slow..So is there a tutorial for layers for dummies??
Capt Marvy

Bill, I came to Photoshop from the Amiga 1000 with Delux Paint, an application years ahead of its time, that would do animated 3D graphics, and with a cheap genloc, overlay them onto video. Photoshop had reached version 4 by the time I switched, and I have always been a Windows user anyway. You were spot on about when Layers were introduced though.
Capt, if you find, and like, Matt Kloskowski's book, then you might like to follow the Photoshop Guys on Photoshop User TV That is an amazing free resourse, and there are over 300 episodes now. Scott Kelby has got together one heck of a team over there, with as well as Matt and Scott Kelby himself, of course, there is Cory Barker of Planet Photoshop which is a first class resource all by itself.
I find video tutorials more accessible than books nowadays, because my eyesight is none too flash, which reminds of another worthwhile resource (and I am not being rude when I say) You Suck at Photoshop. These are hilarious, but also full of great content. In fact Donny would be right at home in this group as he often dreams up clever ways to use Photoshop tools. The way he makes the train disapear into the distance in his Vanishing Point video is just one example.

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