Quote Originally Posted by tannjew View Post
Now I want to create the mountains and I'm here in the tutorial:



But always when I click an the New Layer button I get the following Error message:

Cannot create a new layer from the floating selection because it belongs to a layer mask or channel.
I think you are doing the "Copy Visible" while having the layer mask selected on a layer. Try selecting a different layer (or at least not the layer mask) before the "Copy Visible"

-Rob A>