i have a simple question because im su*k at painting, image stuff etc whatever! i just want to create my first and last logo for some website! here's the prob, i downloaded a image and want to put my name inside the image, but everytime im puttin a text, i can;t get rid of the plain white that surrounds my name! (hope you get what i mean) in other words i want to have my name inside the image without affecting the original image! how can i do that? tnx

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You didn't say what software you're using but what you probably need to do is right click on the text box and select properties. In there somewhere there will be an option to set the background of the text box to transparent.

i forgot, im using MS Paint, i tried that but there's no text properties..

See this link.

cool! tnx! anyway last question man,the original format of my image is JPEG but i have to convert it to GIF but after i converted the image, the resolution becomes poor (lot of boxes), how can i make get rid of the boxes thing? so it will become close to it's orignal quality? tnx

Not exactly sure what you mean by "lot of boxes", but the loss of quality is inherent in using GIF files because of the 256 colour limit.

Honestly, at some point I would have Gotten the PaintShopPro Demo or GIMP and done this. Of course I always hated paint

You could try another program, like Irfanview to convert the image file from one format to another, too.