Welcome to the my Spring Art Lesson!

I got a little carried away (probably spring fever! LOL), and couldn't

decide between an egg, or a spring-y picture. Sooooo, I did both!

First, let's make an egg. Here are four pics of Roger to choose from.

And here are 4 eggs to choose from. They are tubes, so if you need to refer
to earlier lessons if you don't know how to download, install, and work with
tubes.

And here are 4 bases to set the eggs on. They are also tubes.

Open a new image, size 319x319. Click the tube button on the left toolbar,
and after the tubes load, find your egg. You can adjust the size to make it
bigger or smaller in your tool options palette, where it says scale. You want
to make sure you have enough room to add the base underneath the egg.
Place your tube, and use the mover tool on the left hand toolbar (the cross)
to place it where you want it-remembering to leave room underneath for
the base.

Now open the picture of Roger you chose. You'll need to resize it, so go to
image, resize, and make it about 70 percent of the original. Using the selection
tool, use the ellipse, and clicking and holding the mouse in the center of
Roger's face, drag the mouse to create an oval. You may need to go to edit,
undo new selection, and try again until you get it to be in the shape and
position you want. Now copy, and paste as new selection onto your egg.
While the marching ants are around the picture, you can move it by clicking
and dragging. Place it where you want, get rid of the marching ants by right
clicking, and then go to layers, and merge VISIBLE.

Now create a new raster layer. Find your base tube. You'll want to change
the size of it too. We want the egg to look as though it's sitting in the base.
So you may need to play with the size until it looks right. Place your tube,
and if it's too big, just undo, resize it, and try again. Then use the mover
tool to place it under the egg. When you have it like you want, merge VISIBLE
again. Using the crop tool (right above the mover tool) click and drag the mouse
so that it makes a rectangle around your image. Then in the tool options
palette, click crop.

Now you are ready to save it. Make sure you save it as a transparent
gif. One good way to make sure it will be transparent, is to go to View (right
next to edit), and preview in web browser. A window like this will pop up

.

You need to choose gif as your format. (you will probably need to click on
bitmap to un-highlight it first, then click gif). And then select a browser to
use. Then click the preview button. Now you have this window.

You want the dot in front of "Existing image or layer transparency". The
image on the right shows you what it will look like. Click the ok button.
Now a browser window will open showing you your image. Right click and
save it.
And you're done!!