Chapter 6 in Foundations of Digital Art has a few “quirks” that will likely present unnecessary stumbling blocks for you. Here are the three sticky points that I encountered:
Page 118: “Double-click the Foreground color chip at the bottom left of the Tools panel.” She is talking about this (see image at right):
Page 119: “Drag the blue layer to Create a new layer icon.” You can just right-click on a layer and select “Duplicate layer” to create a copy of it.
Page 120: “Press the Lock icon in the Layers panel to lock the transparent parts of the cyan layer.” Actually you press the “Lock transparent pixels” icon, circled below:
Do your best to get through Chapters 4-6 for Wednesday. Whatever you have left to do, bring it to class on Wednesday, and bring your Foundations textbook, as well.