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There's no getting around this one learning all the nooks and crannies and knowing how to use this palette effectively is absolutely essential to your success in Photoshop. Whether you have just a few elements in your document, or hundreds, the Layers palette keeps everything organized, and gives you an amazing number of options for how to make the elements relate to each other. She is command central for everything you will ever do in Photoshop and the better you get to know her, the more you will be rewarded for your efforts.
Instead of yelling at you to clean your room, she patiently keeps track of all your stuff and she doesn't care if you are neat and tidy, or an all-out slob. The Layers palette is like the mother everybody wanted as a teenager. Adobe made considerable changes to the Layers palette in CS2, including the ability to select multiple layers, and the new Smart Guides feature.