Published by cdl on June 27th 2016.
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See how to quickly and easily remove backgrounds from your images using RealWorld Paint in this short video tutorial.
In this tutorial the background color is white but this method works on any background color. You can use this method to remove other parts of your image by color selection as well.
You should remove backgrounds to make your images stand out and appear more professionally rendered. In addition, if you crop your images removing all blank space around the image it will appear larger in icons and cursors.
Find out how Vista icons differ from XP icons.
See how RealWorld Icon Editor handles Vista icons.