Reading in layers of image

Hi,
I was wondering if it was possible to read in an image's different layers. I would like to add a layer which has a blackground, and merge it with another image, and save it. At some point, I would like to remove the black background layer so that the orignal image would be left intact. Is this possible?
Many thanks,

You're going to have to be a bit more specific than that, when you have a java image there aren't any layers. So what type of layering are you suggesting?

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