How do I remove the white space from images?

[Adder]

I've been wondering, how do I remove white space from images with GIMP? I've tried everything, and it still shows up.



I had it colored as a black background before, and when I posted it here, it comes out white.

I noticed that both Sky and landbeforetimelover have images in their avatar/signatures that way, such as these:




I've had a few images that I would want like the two above for avatars on GOF.
Can someone post steps of how do this if possible?

[landbeforetimelover]

Using GIMP?  No clue.  It wouldn't be hard for me to figure out once I was in it, but I haven't used GIMP in years.  I'm sure Sky will say the same thing.  Photoshop is a much more commonly used program.  Go download a trial or buy Elements.  It's really cheap compared to the full version of Photoshop.

[DarkHououmon]

I figured out how to do it in Gimp. But I'm leaving in a couple minutes, so I'll explain when I get back. I will say it has to do with layers.

[Adder]

I will say it has to do with layers.

What with layers?

[DarkHououmon]

What you need to do when doing a drawing is use layers. Do not color or draw anything on the background layer; keep them on the other layers (layers 1, 2, 3, etc or whatever you rename them). Then you click on the eye icon on the background layer once and it makes it transparent. This should make the white background invisible so it does not show up.

[Adder]

Okay. Figured it out. Thanks.  I learn something new about GIMP everyday.