Trouble doing a freezing sprite

[Ramond]

I didn't exactly understand what the problem is, but I thought I'd add my two cents. (I didn't quite understand what you meant by your white squares. Perhaps you could show a picture as an example.)

I used to cut sprites for a Flash movie - copy and paste the whole 80x80 frame of the char into a new layer, then select the black color (0,0,0) with Tolerance 0 and anti-alias off, then delete. Should leave only the character.

For ice (and fire), I have another image here (see attachment) that might help you out as well, as I see that the ice in that other tutorial is a bit... obviously covered with the broken ice parts :P