Copying and pasting from the Internet

[sallyanne]

Probably best not to copy and paste directly from the web as you will be using their (where you get the picture from) bandwith. Always download your pictures to your computer first.

To add on from rich's answer you can make a picture with a white background transparent in gimp by using the colour to alpha filter - found in colour. The default is white. You can do this with other clours as well but best to have a solid colour