help w a tutorial!

[Roxandara]

Im doing this step

"Let’s go through it step by step and see if it makes more sense. Create a selection of the layer contents for your first letter (Ctrl + Click the Layer Thumbnail in the Layers Palette). Now, Select the Gradient Layer (By “Select”, I mean click the layer – do not select the layer contents. We want the selection of the first letter to remain). Copy (Ctrl + C) and Paste so that you’ve created a copy of the gradient in the shape of the letter. If you were to disable ALL of the layers except for this new layer you just created, and the background, you’d now have this
http://tutorial9.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2008/08/first-letter.gif "

But idk how to do so help please

 

[hawkeye]

When you ctrl+click a layer thumbnail it makes a selection of the contents of the layer (in this case a letter). Leaving the letter selection active, if you click the gradient layer, then the letter selection will be active on that layer. When you copy and paste the selection (ctrl+J) you will have the result shown in your post.

 

[Roxandara]

Thank you!