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This document was created by an unregistered ChmMagic, please go to http://www.bisenter.com to register it. Thanks.amount of the RAM available to run Photoshop. If you can get by with the smallest thumbnail, try to do so. The smaller the thumbnail, theless space the palette will take up on your desktop. This is an advantage as you begin to work with three, four, five, and more layers at atime.Try it YourselfCreating a New LayerNow let's make some layers. First of all, let's put something on the Background layer, just so we'll know where it is. Follow these steps:1. Create a new document. Use the Elliptical Marquee to select a large circular area on the page. Fill the circular selection with acolor. Press Command+D (Mac) or Control+D (Windows) to get rid of the selection marquee.2. Look at the thumbnail called Background. (It's the only one on the palette.) It should look something like Figure 11.3.Figure 11.3. The Background layer is your blank canvas when you open a new document. Once you putsomething on it, it's not blank anymore.[View full size image]3. Click the small page icon at the bottom of the Layers palette. You've just added a layer! Now your palette should look like Figure11.4.