In Which we Discuss Avatars and Custom User Titles V

[Yared]

Get a picture of some attractive Brazilian females.

 

[Joecoolyo]

Download GIMP. Paste the picture you want to make transparent into GIMP. Click the magic wand. Click the background. Click delete. Save as a .png or .gif (if you're using it as an avatar, use .gif, it takes up much less space).

Alternatively, employ Paint.NET, which has a much better UI.

Thanks guys! I used Paint.NET since I vowed to never use GIMP ever again (the layers are all screwed up).

Is this any better?

EDIT: Damn, it didn't work...

I deleted the background but now it shows as white instead of transparent.

 

[mechaerik]

I can do it if you want.

 

[Joecoolyo]

I can do it if you want.

Well, I want to learn how to do it so I can, you know, do it in the future.

How did you do it?

Do I have to do something else besides deleting the background or what?

 

[mechaerik]

I have to click "Transparency" when trying to save it to make it keep the transparency.

 

[Joecoolyo]

Are you using GIMP or Paint.NET?

 

[mechaerik]

Photoshop.

 

[Joecoolyo]

Oh, dang.

 

[ParadigmShifter]

Photoshop you need to create layers and stuff.

Use GIMP or Paint.NET.

 

[Zack]

I can't help if you aren't using GIMP, sorry.

It's kind of a weird pic, to be honest.

 

[PeteAtoms]

Well, in Gimp, just open your image.

Go to "Layers" --> "Transparency" --> "Add Alpha Channel"

Now in your layers, you should see a new one. You can now erase and instead of erasing it to white, it is transparent.

Look for something similar in Paint.net ?

 

[Joecoolyo]

I can't help if you aren't using GIMP, sorry.

Thanks, I'll just use yours for now, and I'll fiddle around with the layers in Paint.net (as PeteAtoms suggested) to see if I can get it to work that way.

 

[Bobbtjoe]

My avatar, custom user title, signature, and location are now Strawberry Fields Forever themed. Also, if you have yet to click the link in my sig, you are a dirty, no-good, rotten communist Islamic terriorist facist NAZI who hates America and eats puppies. Not that there's anything wrong with that...

 

[Bobbtjoe]

WE WILL ONE DAY RULE ALL OF RUSSIA!!!!

Assuming that Zackdabeast doesn't get there first.

 

[Zack]

WE WILL ONE DAY RULE ALL OF RUSSIA!!!!

Assuming that Zackdabeast doesn't get there first.

Wrong thread?

 

[Bobbtjoe]

Have you looked at my signature?

 

[Zack]

There is a thread for signature discussion.

 

[Bobbtjoe]

And isn't this it?

 

[Bobbtjoe]

I now see that the title says "Avatar and Custom User Title" but not signature. Why would we need 2 threads.

 

[Zack]

New thread.