Adobe's own help describes layers as transparent sheets stacked on each other, and that picture is worth keeping. Each sheet holds one part of the image. You can change, hide or move one without touching the rest, and what you see is the whole stack looked at from above. A phone photograph opens as a single locked Background layer. Since the May 2026 release there is a preference to open JPEGs as an ordinary layer instead, though Adobe left it off by default.
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