These needles will make up the background. To give them a slightly out of focus look, select the background rectangle and all the needles. From the new Bitmaps menu select Convert To Bitmap- 24 bit, 96 dpi. This converts the vector drawing into a bitmap. Select the new bitmap, and from the Bitmaps menu select Blur-Gaussian Blur, 2. This softens all of the pine needles. A higher number blurs the image more.