Need help with MS paint copy and pasting!

[Jango]

I am trying to copy and paste objects from one ms paint to another. I put the selection box around the object, click on copy, and paste it into the other picture. But when I do this the object has a random white border around it, despite having the transparent background option on.

I have put a word document with a picture below to help to explain my problem.

[Ridg3]

I'm assuming your using Windows 7...

[enchilado]

I'm assuming he's using MS Paint. Fuck.

[Nate]

Don't save the file as a jpeg before copy-pasting. What you've got there are some compression artifacts.

Keep it as a BMP.

[Jango]

Nope, even as a BMP file it still happens.

@Ridg3: I am using Windows Vista.
@enchilado: Yes, I am using MS Paint.

Again, I put a few word documents to help explain exactly what I am doing.

Look at number one first of course.

[Nate]

Ah, but it's starting off with a jpeg file, so the artifacts are already there. You need to start with the original image before the pictures were cropped.

[Jango]

How do I do that? Does it mean that I have to crop all of the pictures again?

[Nate]

Yes.

Or you could use some other paint program that has analogue fill (ie it fills in all of the specific colour and all similar colours).

Check out GIMP and Paint.net.

[Jango]

But I don't have the original image before the pictures were cropped...

Looks like I have to do the whole thing again. Should get it done in a couple of hours, and I'll make sure that I SAVE IT IN BMP THIS TIME!!!

[Nate]

Reread my last post, I've edited it.

Also, you could send a PM to some of the guys who are good at creating sigs. They might have some advice.

[Jango]

I got GIMP and it works great! Thank you Nate! You saved me alot of time!

[Ridg3]

I'm assuming he's using MS Paint. Fuck.

That's not what I mean't, I meant that the MS Paint version on Windows 7 is a lot more photoshoppish than it ever was.

photoshoppish=better than usual.

[Jango]

Oh, ok.