CS4 techniques-Cutting Images

I do not know if that makes it more clear, but I'm curious as to how you would cut an image out and place it into another, I have tried to use the cutting but I don't know every step. If anyone could give me the steps, that would be great and very much appreciated.

If I understand you correctly, I think you want to make a selection of something in your photo and move it to another. If this is the case, you start with selection tools - the one you use depends on what you are selecting. There is Magic Wand, lasso, rectangular, Select Color, etc. all of which have certain advantages and disadvantages. Once your object is selected, you can create a new layer, and only the selected object will be on that new layer. Once you have the object isolated, you can move it whereever you want. This can be very simple to near impossible, depending on the photo. A good book on the subject is Katrin Eismann's Photoshop Maksing and Compositing.

It is still difficult, my experiment is with a picture of my dog, I'm trying to cut her out of the orginal and put her in another, I used the lasso tool, but after the "dotted" line was around her, when I duplicated the layer, it was the same picture, this is confusing.

Don't duplicate the layer. Use Layer>New>Layer via Copy or Cmd J (Mac) or Ctrl J (PC). If selecting is difficult, Topaz Labs makes a neat filter that may be able to do it for you called Topaz Remask.

Okay I did that, and then when I click on that eye next to my original or "background" I get just the layer 1 with the subject I cut out and notice that I really need to work on cutting a little more evenly thank you. This has become more fun than annoying and aggravating.

Not meaning to be negative here, but this is something that will be difficult to handle in a forum like this. It is not an uncommon question however and it is handled admirably well in any number of books, and online with articles and even videos that will probably get you humming in no time without a lot of back and forth posts. Search for "masking in Photoshop" or something similar and out of the millions of possibles you'll find some that will be just what the doctor ordered. Certainly do whatever you wish. I just think you'll get the gist faster with one of those other options. Good luck. JR

I'll take a look at those options, thank you