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In this tutorial I'm going to show you how you can layer different background materials on top of each

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other. Now the first thing to talk about is how backgrounds work.

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When we drag a backgroun on, this automatically goes onto the Background Layer.

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And if you click on the layers tab on the right hand side, you can see that here.

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And each time I drag a background on, that replaces whatever

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was on the background layer with a new background.

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Now the potential problem with this is that you might want to layer

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two different background materials on top of each other to make a more complex

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background. So the way I would go about doing that, is

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firstly to create a new layer. And to create a new layer

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you click on the little add layer icon here with the little plus symbol

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you can see that's now added a new layer called layer 2. You can

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You can reorder layers very easily, and I'm actually going to drag this layer 2

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in between my background and layer 1. But also if you click on it's name,

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you can actually rename the layer. So I'm going to call this background 2

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Now I want to use this material that's covering the background

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as a material. So the way I want to do is firstly to select the background layer

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and now I can actually select this material. And what I'm going to do is cut that

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using the button at the top. Go back to my Backgroun 2 and then paste it.

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So now this material is now set on my Background 2 layer. The great thing about this is that now when

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I drag other backgrounds onto my page, like this blue one

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you can see that it doesn't replace what's on my background 2 layer.

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and you can see from this preview here, that the new background

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is actually sat on my background layer. So now, if I wanted

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to cut this material to make a secondary part of my background

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I can select it, use the scissor tool, and hold on Shift to make a straight line cut

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Then throw that bit away. I want to just add a shadow here.

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And now I've effectively got a composite background. When you want to start adding

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embellishments and what have you to your page, you should then

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go back and select Layer 1, and then you can drag embellishments on as

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normal without ever selecting any of those background elements'

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You'll also notice using this method, going back to the Backgrounds tab,

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if I were to drag on new Backgrounds, all of that still works. But it only replaces the bottom Background

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layer. It leaves this piece of additional material I've added here

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on top.