What Software Do You Use?

[Noblejanobii]

Ah, right. *sweatdrops* You did mention the background eraser. That's a tool I've never heard of before. Does it kinda do the same thing as the magic wand, where it gets rid of an entire area of one color?

Pretty much. You have to slap the image on a transparent canvas first (obviously), then just go to the eraser tool. Click and hold and a few other options will pop up. The eraser with scissors is background eraser. click that and then go to your image. Click where there is background, and it'll delete the color. Now, you do have to be careful, because if you click the image itself it'll delete all the color of the same color connected to where you clicked will be deleted. But otherwise, background eraser is very nice.

[AWA1997]

Honestly, with the eraser trick, if you're talking about what I think you are, I haven't had any issues with it in a long time, no matter how I did it. So, maybe it's not windows 7 or maybe they did some kind of fix to paint itself or something. Thanks for telling me how to make transparent backgrounds, though, that's been a major thorn in my side because it just flat looks bad when you want to use it as your avatar on most sites. (Check to the left of my post for reference.) If I ever get the chance and it works out for me, I'll sprite you something. (Just a fair warning, though, it may not be very good XD)

[monkeybard]

I can't believe I'm the only one that uses aseprite! Completely free but with all the attractive features of paid pixel art programs (layers and opacity, animation, magic wand and more) and it still has the eraser trick! I've tried GraphicsGale and others (and I don't like doing pixel art in traditionally graphics-focused programs like GIMP and Photoshop) but aseprite was the one that convinced me to graduate from good ol' Paint.

[Bulbasaur]

I usually use a translation of Paint Tools SAI.

[Suicune's Fire]

GraphicsGale. :] I also selected Photoshop because I use that for palette editing and saving the actual sprite with, because I'm weird like that. I don't actually sprite in Photoshop; I just edit what I've already sprited in GG. :]