How do you make the background transparent on images for banners?

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Caya	12:32pm Jun 23 2010
Normal User Posts: 1,416	I want to use this image--http://news.cnet.com/i/bto/20080118/tiger_540x315.jpg--for making a banner, but I just want the tiger on it, not the whole image with the trees in the background. How do I make the background on the image transparent?
ssather	1:19pm Jun 23 2010
Normal User Posts: 5,835	Yea, i want to know this too because everytime i want a transparent picture I have to erase the whole background and that takes a lot of time if you want it to look perfect...(My friends says that I am the queen of perfection...I don't agree even though I work very, very hard at not making any mistakes.)
Grimoire	2:19pm Jun 23 2010 (last edited on 2:21pm Jun 23 2010)
Normal User Posts: 853	I can only help you if you have Photoshop. And by help I of course mean I am going to post a link to a tutorial. =P http://www.mediacollege.com/adobe/photoshop/transparent/background.html I'm pretty sure you can do the same in GIMP, if you have that instead. http://weisbeek.freewebhostx.com/gimp/#transp
Caya	2:37pm Jun 23 2010 (last edited on 2:37pm Jun 23 2010)
Normal User Posts: 1,416	Nope, I use sumopaint.com. :P Thanks for trying though. :)

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