How to add a photo to a layer on photoshop cs3?

How do I add a photo to a layer? Like ill open a picture and in will go into my layers but when I go 2 add another photo 2 the same layers pallet it open a whole new layer pallet. I want 2 add a picture of myself into a pictuer of a forest. How can I do that?How to add a photo to a layer on photoshop cs3?
When you open multiple images in Photoshop it creates a workspace for each image.complete with it's own layers.





Open your two images, one of you and one of the forest. In your image, select the parts of the image you want to copy and paste it into the image of the forest.





The forest image now has two layers, the original and the one with you in it.How to add a photo to a layer on photoshop cs3?
That's actually what you want it to do. That way you can edit your picture however you want - e.g. clip out a backgroud or whatever.





Once you're finished editing, you can (assuming you're on windows) hold down CTRL-ALT-shift and hit 'e'. That will combine all your layers in to one layer while leaving all your original layers intact.





If you're dead set on having everything in one layer before you save it, CTRL-Shift 'e' will flatten all the layers for you, but I highly recommend against that.





Feel free to e-mail if you have any other questions.





Hope that helps!