Help with embarrasing ring around the icon

lurk

lurk

Mitä?
Howdy,

Since the theme update I thought that I should update ol' blinky to have a transparent background. But that brings up a problem that I have had before and I know you professional graphic types can tell me the trick.

When I replace the background with "clear" (for lack of a technical term) there is a white ring of pixels around Blinky. This is where the original image was antialiased and these pixels are actually grey. So is there a way to expeditiously clean these up or do I just have to rely on my meager mousing skills to go in a fill em in with black. Am I making any sense?

Finally being as this is all for one goofy icon I am using the Gimp since if I bought Photoshop for this my amortized cost would be about $10 dollars per pixel ;)

Thanks a bunch!
-Eric
 
I notice that you have changed you avatar to the one I made. Now that I've seen it against a dark blue background I've made a better version.

Here:
blinky.gif
 
Originally posted by wdw_
I notice that you have changed you avatar to the one I made. Now that I've seen it against a dark blue background I've made a better version.

Here:
blinky.gif
Click to expand...

How did you do that?
Did you make the antialias into a black border? Or used something else?

I have a few pictures that I want to use as icons but have a white halo around them (like my avatar).

BTW, what did you use to make pictures of people on this forum into icons? :)
 
I went around the pic with the pencil tool at 20% opacity black color and darkrning pixels that were too light.

I used Photoshop 7 and Iconographer X 2.4 to make the macosx.com member icons.
 
Another similar effect can be achieved in Photoshop by selecting the cutout layer with the embaressing white fringe, and choosing Layer --> Remove White Matt.
 
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