## 4. Creating New Layers

There are several ways to create new layers in an image. Here are the most important ones:

- Selecting Layer → New Layer… in the main menu. This brings up a dialog that allows you to set the basic properties of the new layer; see the New Layer dialog section for help with it.

- Selecting Layer → Duplicate Layers in the main menu. This creates a new layer, that is a perfect copy of the currently active layer, just above the active layer.

- When you “cut” or “copy” something, and then paste it using Ctrl+V or Edit → Paste, the contents of the clipboard are pasted into a new layer.

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