Fantastic, those Photoshop-lovers, but they never give a satisfying answer, do they ? Photoimpact is really great and isn’t that hard to get used to. Here’s a set of basic tutorials that will really help you to get started :
If you want to spend some more time playing around with PI then you should subscribe the beginners workshop, it’s for free, and you’ll learn the possibilities of PI with all the help and advice you’ll need. I loved it ! :
Success !
Andre, Belgium.

Photoshop 7 is great. layers are used to make up the full image, you can copy one part of a picture and add it to another layer.
If you want to learn something about taking pictures in layers, then maybe cutting the layer parts out and editing them that way, look at this site:
(How to take pix in layers)
Ex: Sky (top layer) mountains (middle layer) house (foreground)

Here’s a tutorial:

Photo Impact is a great program but it’s soooo hard to master. Photoshop costs around $600 but some people have loads of money. The problem with photo Impact is that it’s not widely used and there are very few (if any) tutorials out there. What you want to do is not easy anyway. You have to use several processes and any one slip can ***** the job up. I would only do something like this if I was entering a competition or getting paid. It can be a bit stressful as a casual hobby thing. Anyway, this may surprise you but one of the best references for this sort of stuff is YouTube. There are hundreds of video demos and tutorials there for Photoshop, maybe Gimp and maybe even PhotoImpact.