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I'll go ahead and grab my Ellipse Tool again and I'm going to select the blue ball here. And again, I'm going to copy this. So I can do Edit, Copy. Now, if you want to remove it, you do Cut but that's going to do the same thing as if we turned it into a floating selection and it's going to cut a hole, it's going to take all the pixels. Copy is just making a copy of those pixels for us to manipulate later. So go ahead and copy and then I'll paste. And of course there are those keyboard shortcuts. Now, if you take a look something bizarre is happening. Now, what has occurred here, something that happens pretty frequently whenever you're working with your different graphics applications and what's going to be helpful is if you know how to troubleshoot some of these problems. Now, I typically have a number of things that I check whenever something doesn't go quite the way I expected it to go and the first one is to check what layer I'm on. So the first thing I would do is check and see, well, what layer was I on and I know immediately that I was on the wrong layer. Now, if I check that and that's not an issue, I check to see which tool I have. If the tool is not an issue, I check to see what tool options I have. So those are the three things I end up checking. I check what layer I'm on, what tool do I have and what tool options are set up. Now, probably about 85 percent of the issues that I face whenever I'm working inside of GIMP and other graphics applications will be solved by figuring out one of those three things. So I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to undo that and I go back to my Background Copy here and now whenever I go in Edit, Copy and then Edit, Paste and switch to my Move Tool, I know have the blue ball. Now, notice that I can not move this in the stack. Now, what's going to happen if I choose to anchor this is it's going to become part of the layer that it's floated above or taken from. So if I hit this anchor, it's going to become part of that background copy, which may not necessarily be something I want to have happen. So I'm going to go ahead and undo that and I'll create a new layer. So now I have these two new layers but I don't need two layers. I'm actually going to take this layer and combine it with the layer below. So to do that, I right click and I have all these wonderful options including New Layer, Duplicate Layer. Merge Down is what I want, so if I merge down, this layer forms with the other layer. So now I have this layer where there's the new balls. So now if I move, it's going to mov both of those. I'm going to go back to my Background Copy here, grab my Ellipse Tool and I'm going to select the orange ball. And I'm going to copy that and I'll paste that back in and I was using my keyboard shortcut of Control C to copy and Control V to paste. I'll go ahead and create this as a new layer. Now, if I don't want to merge this layer down with the other one but I want it so that whenever I move one of the balls, it's going to move all three of the new balls. That's where that second column comes into place. So if I have my layer here and I do chain link and then chain link another layer, what that's doing is it's locking the layer for positioning. So now if I have my Move Tool and I move the orange ball, it's going to move all three balls. So that's actually a pretty good little thing to keep in mind. So if you need to temporarily move items together, you can do this without having to merge the layers together. Now, if you're going to need to keep moving those things together, merging them may be your only option. So if we need to move these balls together at all times, I would just come in again and right click and do Merge Down or go to the Layer Menu and select Merge Down. Also note that in your Layer Menu you have other options that we've seen from our Layer Dialog, such as using stacks and so forth. So I'm going to go ahead and merge that down and I will now go to File Menu and save all of my hard work. Now, that actually covers a lot of the different things that you can do with layers and what we have created is called a Composite. So in later movies we're going to be taking other images and combining them in with different images to create what's called a Composite. So here what we've done is we've created a very simple composite using elements from inside of the same image. GIMP is going to allow us to take other images and combine them together with, say, this image. So we're going to be able to create some pretty complicated things. And that concludes this video on Layer Basics.