Make a button;
Use its Image property;
And finally import an image, and click OK.
You can also use the "BackgroundImage" property for the button instead. You then have a choice to change the layout ("BackgroundImageLayout" property) for the background image ("StretchImage" works fine).
You might want to give this a read, if you prefer changing the image from code:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.control.backgroundimage.aspx
or this,
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.buttonbase.image.aspx
Good Luck,
Z
but, im trying to create a chess/checkers game so in need to be able to shift the images around, what i should have asked is if that is possable 
i am using 2008 so some of the stuff u can do i might not to be able to