Photoshop Tutorial

In todays lesson we were introduced to the basics of adobe Photoshop. I have prior knowledge when using this program due to being a technology student and previous art student. We were asked to photoshop a edit a character or celebrity onto a beach scene. We used layers to separate the depth of the picture and the different parts of it. We also resized the images and used a 'magic wand' tool to remove backgrounds. After this tutorial, i am now aware of the importance of layers and how they act as a 'building block' when making the desired image. By using layers it allows me to select certain parts of the images and edit them individually without compromising the rest of the image. This is the image i photoshoped