How to put an image on top of a white circle?
I made a white elipse using the shape tool in Adobe illustrator. I then opened an image so that I have the elipse and the image in a single layer as pictured below.

The resulting image looks like this.

I am trying to have the image just over the circle and save it as one. When i try to export as PNG the background completely dissapears and i am left with no circle as my background. It seems to take just the image and gets rid of the elipse shape and I get the following.

Even if i change background color to white it just fills the entire background not the white elipse shape. My question is: How do i get the image and the white elipse to merge as one so that the image is on top of a white circle? Please help, I have tried everything.
