Custom icons' backgrounds

[tech4all]

For some reason when I get a small picture to put as icon, say for my digital camera, and I save it as a GIF so it'll have a transparent background, it always puts a black background on it. How do I go about having a transparent background for an icon? I've seen them done on the desktop threads in the Pictures section.

 

[Vader]

Try Pic2Icon
All you do is drag it in there, and it makes the icon with no black background. You can also drag in a whole folder of images, it is great!