tarotbear
I am still working in MS PAINT - we don't have no stinkin' layers! However, saving in PNG is how I did my decks.
For the techno-challenged - layers allow you do to things like shade your background on it's own layer so you don't have to paint around the separate blades of grass or figures. Do the background on it's own layer and 'insert' it behind your image. I REALLY DO wish PAINT had this capability- would have made some of my atmospherics a LOT easier!
(Attached - how I had to add my skies to images already completed ... which is why I did the skies first and colored the figures after. If I had the ability to layer it would have been much easier...)
For the techno-challenged - layers allow you do to things like shade your background on it's own layer so you don't have to paint around the separate blades of grass or figures. Do the background on it's own layer and 'insert' it behind your image. I REALLY DO wish PAINT had this capability- would have made some of my atmospherics a LOT easier!
(Attached - how I had to add my skies to images already completed ... which is why I did the skies first and colored the figures after. If I had the ability to layer it would have been much easier...)