How can I add new images to the layers panel?

Hello

I am brand new with photoshop elements 11.  I'm having a problem understanding how to import new images in the layers panel.  If I type "create a new layer" all that I get is an empty layer.  I want to do is to import an image where I'll cut part of it and layer it on another image.  For example: of lets say I want to put a picture of myself in front of a tree.  I want to take the image myself from a photo and he sleeps on the photo that has the tree on it.  How can I get both of these images in the layers panel even?  I can get the picture of me in the layers panel as layer #1, so I can cut myself out of the picture.  My problem is when I try to import the picture with the tree on this subject, it opens upward in a new tab.  If I try to hit 'create a new layer', only a white layer appears above my first coat.  I tried to drag the new image on the layers panel, but will not join.  All the tutorials I could find and monitor, have already all the images they work with pre-loaded in the layers panel.  I just need to know how to get my pictures in the Panel, so that I can start working with them.

Thank you in advance for any help you can give.

Glen

P.S. I'm working on an iMac 2009

After selecting, you press Cmd + J and which will put the selection on a new layer.

Drag your tree to the top of the location of the project in the main image window.

Organize layers for example you may need to drag the tree stratum under the layer with yourself.

See my tutorial that uses a background solid colr.

http://forums.Adobe.com/message/4166187#4166187

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