You can't do transparency on Paint. You can with GIMp or Animation Shop 3 (I use AS3)

I tried many times but it only let's the right-clcik colour become "transparent" when layering over other pictures.

I think you have to have Animation Shop 3 or something like it to do real transparencies. Otherwise, take a screenshot of the Psypoke window (the button on the keyboard for PC's says 'Print Scr'), paste it, then eyedropper the color.

(PS: If you want, you can send me some sprites, and I'll make 'em transparent. )

The eyedropper tool is a tool that you use to pick up a color from a picture. I don't know how to explain what it looks like... at the moment.

Anyway, here. I was in need of something to do, so...



Enjoy.

You CAN do transparency in MS Paint, actually. I can't remember the specifics because it's been so long, but it has to do with the "Draw Opaque" setting, and I think it might have to be saved as a GIF. You should be able to find something on Google.

Otherwise, The GIMP is always free.

What is GIMP?

I do transperant stuff on photoshop but it doesnt work on the net. They are transperant on my comp (on word etc) but not on the net so I need to find a program.

Also what is the GIMP animation package?

If you are saving it as PNG, then in Internet Explorer it won't turn out transparent. That's why everyone who reads this should download and use FireFox NOW.

Anyway, sorry GQ, I've never used GIMP, so I can't help you here. Hope you solve your problem soon.

... you erase the background, and/or anything else you don't want in the image. The result is a transparency.

More specifiaclly, how do I make GIMP recognise what the backround is? Sorry if I sound like a n00b, but I know about as much about computing as George Bush knows about particle theory.

Okay, so I've worked out how to copy without a backround. Now, using the complicated GIMP setup, how do I do all the Microsoft Paint colour changing thingies?

Maybe you should edit the pic/do whatever before it's in GIMP. That's what I do, but it's with PhotoStudio/AS3.

Post a copy of the image here and describe what you want to do with it. All of your brushes can be found in the main GIMP panel, and most of the advanced controls are in the window for the image itself in the menu bar and/or the right click menu.

Yeah, GIMP's interface is a royal pain, but I can live with it since it's free.

Well, you could use Tools -> Colors -> Hue/Saturization to change everything equally. Otherwise, go with fuzzy select (Z) to select individual colors and then paint (P) them a new one.

OK. What is really annoying me is that whenever I do what you're suggesting, the colour always changes to either:

Grey

or

Olive.

WHY THE FRIGGIN' HELL AIN'T IT CHANGING TO THE COLOUR THAT I HAVE AS MY FOREGROUND COLOUR?!?

Is there an easy way of explaining it? You know, like a step-by-step? The stupid GIMP doesn't have a help program.

If it is a GIF, it's probably saved in a limited number of colors. Try right clicking and going to Image -> Mode and selecting RGB. This will give you a full color image. If the RGB option is grayed out, you may have to create a new image. Save your work as an XCF until you're finished, then export to a rich file type like PNG, or JPEG if you need to conserv on filesize. PNG is best however.

Ctrl+Shift+A is unselect all
P is paintbrush
S is smudge
O is color picker
Z is magic want
A is airbrush
R is rectangle select
F is free select
L is gradient (don't ask me why)
Shift+O is select by color
Shift+B is bucket filll
Shift+E is eraser

Other standard keyboard shortcuts (ctrl+z,x,c,v,y,a,s, etc.) still apply too.

Thank you everyone! I've finally got it to work! My shop is open and we do any recolour job, none too small or too big! Oh, and to quote a cliche:
Lock and Load! *cough* cue mods *cough*