I am new to Photo. I plan on using it to help create digital art journals, This will employ scrapbook elements (png's and jpg's) that I will arrange to form an artistic composition. There will probably be some photographic elements also. I want the composition to look as 3-dimensional as possible. I imagine that layers and proper shadowing will play a big part. What features Photo will I probably be employing to accomplish this type of appearance.
I have attached a file showing an example of what I hope to be able to accomplish. Thanks,