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Ah ReNae, this might be one for Michele or Cynthia, I am a dedicated Adobe user.
If they use the same technology, your document should open and there will be a menu at the top with "views", pull that down and see if there is something that says layers. If yes open it.
Now open your next document, you will either have your reference photo open or the digital of your painting.
When the layer palette is open you should have a place that says "create new layer" click yes, then it will ask for a name and an opacity. I just call mine 1, 2, 3, but a good hint is to copy the background layer too layer one, and delete the background, because it is usually locked and you will not be able to manipulate it.
Leave your transparency at 100% for now.
Click on your other document and select the whole window, you should have a dotted line making a circle around the image. You will copy this. On a Macintosh you hold down the apple key and press "c" or pull the edit menu down to copy. Click back onto your new document - which you have saved with a new name now (in PhotoShop it is a psd because your layers are there, do this every time you make a change) and add another new layer.
Name your new layer with what you want and leave the transparency at 100% for now and paste this image into this layer.
Now go to this layer, by highlighting it in your layer document palette and change the transparency/opacity, usually by using a sliding scale until you can see what is underneath. It will give you a great Idea what needs to be moved around.
If you need to make changes you can take your pen tool and create a path, follow your reference, make it a selection then stroke it with your smallest tool, usually the pencil set to one pencil and out put that for use at your easel. Of course this is all based on PhotoShop, but they are all pretty much a like now. Unless of course you are trying to build a web site, which has no logic at all and you need to attend Genius school with Cynthia, see-all the artist think she named this site after them - HA!
I did show an example of this ever so humbly in one thread, I
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