Please Help!!

[Snailzzy]

I am trying to do the final project for courseras Image editing Course. It gives me these directions, 

Create your scene.

• Download the files from this page to get the corresponding assets for your project of choice (i.e., backpack, button, copy options, and logo).

• Open the Photoshop desktop app and drag the backpack image to the center of the canvas, leaving room for the image, text, and logo. 

• Select the backpack in the Layers panel. With the Object Selection tool, select the background surrounding the backpack. When you do this correctly, the selection will be highlighted in pink, with the backpack in the center of the selection.

• With the background selected, click Generative Fill. Type a prompt to generate a summer scene depicting grass in the foreground and mountains in the background.

The files load in as in artboard so when I move the backpack image over and try to select only the background of white for winter and summer it selects the entire thing and I don't know what to do.  

[melissapiccone]

Not sure why the instructor chose to use artboards - have they been using artboards throughout the course? Just curious. They want you to generate a scene in each artboard for summer and winter with the backpack - yes? I can't see your layers panel but you should be able to select just the backpack layer and generate a background. The lesson is teaching gen fill and wants the backpack to fit into the scene. You can also isolate the backpack on it's layer - just delete the white background and then do a gen fill. A screenshot of your layers panel with the artboards open to reveal all layers would help. It's very confusing for beginners to mix artboards and layers. You should be able to generate background or just do a generate. In my opinion, with the new harmonize feature coming soon (currently in beta) you don't need to generate background, just create the scene with generate and then you will be able to harmonize the backpack in there. I'm sorry if I'm confusing you or overwhelming you with choices - I have created a coursera course myself and want to help.