Photoshop Troubleshooting - Why can’t I move or re-order the background layer?
This is something that catches a-lot of Photoshop users out. You are getting used to using layers and think they are wonderful. Moving them around - re-ordering them to your hearts content! Then you do something on the ‘background’ layer and suddenly realise that you can’t move it… it won’t budge even in the layers palette, let alone moving it around you actual image canvas!!
It has a little ‘lock’ icon to the right of the name of the layer - you would have thought you could just ‘unlock’ it like any other layer… wrong! Photoshop treats the ‘background’ layer as special, meaning you can’t unlock it in the usual way.
The solution to this is as simple as double clicking on the layer - this will turn it into a ‘proper’ layer, meaning it can be moved, hidden and made transparent to your hearts content!