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In this movie, I want to show you how the selection tools works. And, I'm going to show how the selection tool works in conjunction with the Layers palette. Photoshop allows you to construct multi-layered images. And you can see here I have on my Layers palette four distinct layers. The way to think of the Layers palette is to put your eyeball at the top of the layers palette here, and your eye is looking down through these layers. At the very bottom of my Layers palette is a layer called the background. And above that is layer1, which is this blue object, and this brown object, and finally this oval green object here. I'm going to use a selection marquee, and I'll use the rectangular selection marquee, and I'll create a small selection. Now whatever layer is currently selected, and I can select a layer simply by clicking on its name, that would be the layer that I would edit with this selection. And what I'm going to do with this selection is to copy some of the data. So right now if I choose copy, that's Edit menu>Copy, and I'll choose Edit menu>Paste. You can see what it did is it copied data from this layer that I had selected. I'll throw this new layer away, and create a selection again. At this time I'll target the layer underneath it. So now even though it looks as if this selection is going to copy the green oval shape, it will actually be copying data from this brown shape - because this is the currently selected layer. Edit>Copy, Edit>Paste. In fact, I'll move that up, that is what it copied - remember because I had this layer selected. So the point I'm trying to make is that even though you see a selection and it visually seems to be in front of something, it really only relates to whatever layer you have targeted. Selections don't care what layer its on; they will work on any layer. Selections don not care what layer is targeted; they will be active on whatever layer is targeted and selected.