Please help!! photoshop..?

Question

i'm about to pull my hair out. im trying to put an image on a preset template, but when i go to file>open and open the image, my layers disappear. I already asked this question but everyone told me to make another layer.. the obvious that ive been doing. Please help guys.

omg thank you sooo much, it worked. only this is, when i used the move tool to move it to the blank template, it came out really small.. im afraid if i made it bigger the quality will suffer. what should i do?

Answer 1

If the file you open should be a separate document from the other one. It doesn't put it in there, if that's what the problem is. have both in the window so you can see them. Then drag the one layer with the image on it onto the other file window. It should make a black outline around the viewable area. then let go. If it doesn't do it that, way, check to see if your template is locked in some manner in your preferences or if the layers themselves are all locked, hence not allowing a new one to be created.

Answer 2

You have an image on which you work, with several layers.
You open an image (i.e. a jpeg): this opens another window for that image. You now have TWO images on the screen.
The new one (if it is a jpeg), will have one layer only, called background, and that layer will be locked (little padlock).
On the "layers" pane, click the bkg and duplicate it: it now appears as "background copy", and you have two layers.
Delete the original.
Now select the last layer and drag it across to the first image you had: you have created a new layer on your original image that contains the new image.
Resize it if needed using the transform feature. Et voilà!
Notes:
- If you try to import a GIF, it WON'T work: the layer of the new image will be called "index". You can't do anything with it.
Open it with PAINT, save it as a BMP, then import it to Photoshop.
- When copying a layer from an image to another, make sure that the zoom level is equal for BOTH images (i.e. 100%), so both images will show the real scale. If you go from a 100% to a 50%, the image on the new layer will be 1/2 the size!
- If the final imported image is too small, it means that it is too small to start with! You can resize, but, yes, you will loose resolution...
Good luck!