New ways to overlap images in CS6?

Is there any easy way to overlap a float-left image on top of a float-right image ? I have read previously posted suggestions (layers, z-values..), but maybe it's made easier now in CS6 and CSS3?

Probably need a little more info to give you a good answer. There are many ways to overlap images.
The easiest would be to use one container with a background image, then place a standard <img> tag in the same container and position it accordingly.
A couple of absolutely positioned elements with z-index would be another way.
Relatively positioned elements with z-index would also work.
It really all depends on what exactly you want to do and how your page is currently written.

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When I am placing graphic/Image, Is there any way to avoid overlap image( the image lie on the top of other image)? When I am placing textframe in the document, textframe has the textwrappreferences to avoid the overlap. Like that is it possible with Image? I have placed my graphic/image inside the textframe/rectangle.
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I know more Flash than Dreamweaver.
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