re: Teach a man to Fish (Fark Board Beginner Questions)

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I'm using fireworks because I've had trouble learning GIMP. More out of laziness than anything but GIMP just seems hard to use. Do you use photoshop and do you find it easier to work with

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I use Photoshop. I have used GIMP, but only to goof around with. It's whatever you are comfortable with. If someone was starting out, I would tell them to use Photoshop. IMO, it's the best tool for the job. But I understand other tools are free and a lot of people create awesome stuff with those programs.

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Here is a question. What is the purpose of creating a background layer and how is that different from the blank canvas provided.

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You can do it either way. When you open an image, that is your background layer. You can't move another layer below that layer if you needed to. But you could duplicate that layer and delete the background layer if you wanted to. If you start with a blank canvas, you can paste in other images/layers on top of it and get to the same place in the end.

Don't let the base image/background layer limit what you are trying to do. If you need more room to work, change the canvas size. You can always crop it down later.