I just recently started using Photoshop CS2 and I'm sort of floundering around at the moment. I recently purchased the beautiful CRWR ManeNTail Pack1 from here and I am having probelms figuring out how to get the mane on my image. Laurie, the artist of this great pack, has een kind enough to try to help me, but I'm just not getting it. I figured out how to mak the layers turn off so I have just the one I want, and I have been able to select all like she said, but I can't get it to "cut"
like she said. I really don't want to keep bothering her, even though she is more than helpful. Does anyone have any idea what I'm doing wrong please? Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,

Moonbow

I don't have this pack but it appears to be a set of layered photoshop files, presumably with one graphic (i.e. mane, tail, etc.) per layer.

I assume you have an image into which you want to insert a graphic from this pack. Open the relevant pack file, then click on the layer with the required graphic. Assuming the graphic is on an otherwise transparent layer, all you need to do is select the move tool and drag the layer from the pack file onto your image. This will automatically create a new layer in your image with the mane (or whatever) in it.

That should be all you need to do, unless the graphic isn't on a transparent base. In which case it becomes a bit more... challenging.

Thank you for replying so quickly.
  It is indeed a set of layered files with a mane or tail on each layer. I don't know exactly how to go to the layer that has the graphic I need, and if I do get to that layer, I don't want to move the graphic of the mane to my image for fear it will then be gone from the set and I will be unable to use it again.
I just don't know .....

Clicking the eye on the layer pallette will hide/turn on & off the layers you don't need.  Then just follow spedler's advice & move the layer to your image.  It should just duplicate the layer & not cause it to disappear from the original file.. 

I have tried to move the layer, but the layer I am on is not the layer that I want to move to my image, and I don't know how to get to the layer I want...

Very frustrating.....

Thank you though,

Moonbow

Moonbow.. Check your site mail.  I sent you a picture that might help..

I don't know anything about this pack but you must first highlight the layer by left mouse clicking on that layer which you want to transfer to your image. Then using the move tool in Photoshop, just press the "V" key for the move tool and drag this layer onto the image which you want. Holding down the Shift key centers the layer onto your image.

Please don't take this as a "RTFM" type of response - I really don't mean this that way. You sound a bit lost in Photoshop in general - which means you'll be fumbling your way in a dark room with a bad flashlight at best.

I suggest you take a few steps back, grab a Photoshop book - I seriously recommend any of the ones by Scott Kelby - "Photoshop CS(insert number here) for..." or any of the "Down and Dirty Tricks" series kind of thing. They're a good and VERY EASY read, and by doing the projects you'll become VERY familiar with Photoshop's layout, tools, procedures, and functionality.

Then you'll look at this project you're trying to do and probably zip right through it.

After only a handful of these tutorials, Spedler's advice above will be a breeze.
Hope this helps-
-Lew
 

One way to identify the layers;
open your pack.
if you put the pointer over the  ( eye ) of each layer and click, the eye should close and the image will dissappear, that will tell you which layer it is. If that's the layer you want, you can then select the layer by (left ) clicking 

Can you put an image some where so we can see the layers
Eddie

Thank you all for the great ideas and assistance. Lew, thank you for the names of a good author and some ideas about which books to get. I appreciate it so much and will go check them out right now. Your image of me fumbling around in the dark with a bad flashlight is right on!! LOL

Moonbow