Juli

Thanks, guys... It's working a bit now, but not very cleanly (see attachment) I shot my pewter ornament against a black background, but would like to post on web transparent (or on another color background). Is there a set of general instructions to the program I can find? Juli

Arggh! I just downloaded Paint.Net after so many great reports of how the transparency function works. I opened my picture, saved it as a GIF, selected the magic wand, moved the tolernace to 0, and slid the wand across a portion of the black background I want to remove. The only thing that happens is my little Vista ring appears (like something is processing) while I'm left clicking, but nothing happens. I'm not getting chunks of the background taken out. Do I need to reinstall, or am I missing something??? Thanks for the help!