9. Go to Selections>Load/Save Selection>Load Selection from Alpha Channel. Click the little arrow next to the image, and find the selection you saved previously:
Click the "Load Button". Go to Selections>Invert, then hit your Delete key. Voila! The excess line is gone!
De-select.
10. Create a new layer, name it "Spots". Choose your Preset Shapes tool 
. Change your background from Null to Black and leave the foreground as is. Set your Preset Shapes options like this:
Select the ellipse shape. While holding down the "Shift" Key, draw 8 or 9 circles of different sizes to cover both sides of the Ladybug, like this:
Go to your Layer Palette and turn off the "head" layer and the original layer,
then Right click on the Layer Palette and select Merge>Merge Visible.
11. Create a new layer, name it Legs. Set your background to Null again. Choose your Pen tool, and set the line width to 1. Everything else stays the same. Draw a line out sideways and slightly forward from the body, then add a connecting line which points forward, like this:
Repeat 2 more times on the same side, then draw 3 legs on the other side.
12. Go to your Layer palette and drag the legs layer down under the Body layer.
Make your head layer active. Drag it down under the Body layer, and position it at the center of the "wings" line. Go to your Layer palette, Right click and Merge>Merge Visible.
13. Select your Crop tool 
. Click on the Layer Opaque button, then Apply.
14. Go to File>Export>Picture Tube. Give the tube a name.
Now you have a ladybug tube to use on your flower images.
Nina, my tester, created an entire Ladybug family. Aren't they cute?
I hope you enjoyed this tutorial.
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This tutorial is my own creation, any similarity to any other tutorial on the Internet is unintentional. It is copyrighted by me, *~Nightshadow~*, on June 29, 2003, and is not to be copied or reproduced in any way other than a printout for your use, under penalty of law. Graphics lists, please e-mail me for permission to post my tutorials, especially because I would love to see the results :O)
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