White pixels around my picture!! SO ANNOYING HELP!!!?

Question

White pixels around my picture!! SO ANNOYING HELP!!!?
hi

yesterday i tried to make an avatar (picture icon) for my account on a forum. the only problem is that when i post it on the website, it has a white/light gray border around it to the right of it and below it!

basically i made the picture originally with a white background and then coloured the background in to match the site's background (now the background is a dark gray). there just seems to be a very fine line of white/light gray surrounding the picture. i've tried cropping the picture and changing the file format to jpeg, bmp, gif, png etc. but nothing seems to work. i originally made the picture in ms paint.

ive found that the darker i make the gray, the less the pixels around the border pop out. the lighter i make the gray, the border gets more and more annoying.

PLEASE HELP!

here is a link to the picture:

http://www.pojo.biz/board/showthread.php?t=865950&page=17

my picture is the one under the poster named yugioh person (its the animal looking thing with the axe).

and no. i cant colour that part of the picture in (at least i dont see anything to color in). even when i crop the picture even closer to the sides, the border still POPS UP! AGH

Answer 1

It's in GIF format, isn't it? Did you make the background transparent? I zoomed all the way (filled the screen) and the background (at the edge) looks the same.



Saved it in JPG format here. http://www.flickr.com/photos/little_pooky/4872402615/ Not sure if it's going to help.

Answer 2

you may desire to have a image enhancing utility to do this. Then once you have achieved the artwork you opt for, then you definitely keep as and alter the format to something you opt for. and it will stay that way once you decrease and paste, otherwise it is going to stay like that's because of fact of what you're using now.

Answer 3

this was easy to figure out... everything on that page gets a drop shadow on that side... look at the seperators and it is on the other guy's avatar too.. on lighter colors and patterns is is a little less noticable