Im doing a tut
and so far ive put c4ds down and effects and a sprite
then it tells me to make a new layer and shift+cntl+c which is copy merge
and it wont let me
any1 know what the problem is?

Press crlt + e to merg layer down. Try that?

ehh i already did this the hard way lol
file>save as .jpg
file>open .jpg
copy>paste
lol
ill try that next time though