Would somebody be a d'ear for me?

This is simple to do but given I don't even know how to use paint I was hoping someone could do it for me.

Would someone take my avatar and remove the blank white spaces around the circle? I can't really give anything to the person that does this besides my thanks and an internet cookie. So yeah.

This okay?

That is perfect, thank you. And here is your internet cookie, enjoy it internetily like.

Bumping/double posting this. Someone want to clean up about 52 images for me? It should be easy, but it is a lot of images. So just post here if you could do it and I'll PM you the images.

Do you mean making the background transparent? That's very easy to do in an image editor other than MS Paint, like Paint.NET.

Do you mean making the background transparent? That's very easy to do in an image editor other than MS Paint, like Paint.NET.

You say it is easy, and it might be easy for you. But after fooling around with it for an hour I can't for the life of me figure out how to make the background transparent.

Magic wand and click the blank white part(s) -> Delete -> Save.

If edges appear tampered, you may want to manually select the white space.

I've never used paint.NET before, but the idea is the same regardless of editor: you either remove what you don't want or cut&paste what you want to a clean, transparent background. Transparent backgrounds are displayed as gray checkerboard in almost all (if not all) editors.

Using paint.NET on your original request:

 Open the image in paint.NET.

[spoiler=In the toolbar to the left, click on the Magic Wand. This "smart-selects" areas of consistent color or shape. Click on the white background around the object. You may need to raise or lower the Tolerance of the Magic Wand at the top.][/spoiler]

 Hit Delete to delete the white area.

 Clean it up.

You could zoom in and delete all the remaining border whitespace. Instead...

To me, the blue ring looks like it's supposed to fade into the background. To create this fade, select the object (I used circular select, but you can hand-select around it).

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Go to Edit > Invert Selection. This inverts the selection and thus selects the empty border area.

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Go to Effects > Blurs > Gaussian Blur. This blurs the selection, creating a "fade". Play with the Radius setting until you get a satisfactory effect (I used a radius of 5).

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 Images of it cleaned up and not (on black backgrounds).

The fade could look better, but apparently feather-select in paint.NET is a plugin I'd have to download to use. Feather "softens" the edges of a selection so there would be a sort of gradient between the blue ring and the blurred area.

Save the image as .gif or .png. JPEG does not support transparency. If you're doing this for a GIF animation, you'll have to remove the whitespace from each frame and save it as an animated GIF (versus a flattened one).

Following what both you said I still can't seem to get it right. It still appears to have a border after I save it in either gif or png.

Did you open the image as a new image? If you paste it into the default canvas (via copy&paste or drag&drop), it stacks on top of the default white background layer instead of becoming the background layer. When you delete stuff from the image that way the default white background appears instead of the gray checkerboard.

Click on the white layer labeled Background (in the Layers box on the bottom right) and Delete it with the red X. Note that you can only delete the default background if there is more than one layer in the canvas.