help putting one clipart on top of another

[Redironrob]

Ok I have a two pices of clip art both PNG files. One is a check pattern one is a horse on a transparent background. How do I put one on top of the other so I have a horse on a checky back ground.

Currently when I move the image with its transparent background over anything the entire image below is blocked. 

I do not know what 'question' to ask my books or help guides.

And yes I am very new to all this

[SJRiegel]

What you are describing makes it sound like your horse image doesn't actually have a transparent background, but has white or some neutral color instead. 

[Redironrob]

The 'system' swore that it was. It had grey and white squares on it and everything.In the end I abandonned it and created another which worked. Thank you!

[Ton Frederiks]

And if you have Photoshop, it is the better app to combine pixel files like PNG.

[Redironrob]

Thank you. Dont know why that was so difficult to work out!

[Ton Frederiks]

Good to hear you found a solution.