Pic question

[Valorman]

Ive been wondering how to make a picture without the backround behind it. An example is GLulm's avatar. Some help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Edit: im using MS paint if you need to know.

[Keron Cyst]

For Paint?

Take the eyedropper and hold [CTRL] while picking a color. This will transfer the color to the box behind the left-click and right-click cells in the bottom-left, and that is the .GIF's transparency color. Anything that is that color within the graphic is transparent.

And yea, make sure you save it as a .GIF when you're done.

(However, for this particular forum, it's probably better to get a more advanced image editor and give it true checker-transparency since backgrounds here swap with every other post)

[Valorman]

What program do you suggest? Because the image backround dosent seem to become transparent.

[Milkman Dan]

Paintshop Pro or Photoshop

[Keron Cyst]

Those are very costly, heh

Try The GIMP. It's like a free open-source version of Photoshop but with a very different interface (some say it's better, I personally say it's a bit harder to navigate through, but hey, you get to keep roughly $700 ). I use The GIMP all the time solely for rendering images transparent.

[Brock]

I sit really 700 bucks for Photoshop...?

[jettlarue]

the gimp rocks. can do just about anything image related with it.