How do I get a specific set of sprites from a sprite sheet?

[StrawberryOreo]

Hi, I'm a strawberry flavored Oreo. I hope this is the right place to post this.

So, I'm working on a fanmade Pokemon game in RPGXP/Pokemon Essentials. I was looking up overworld sprites for the trainer class "Hex Maniac" because they're not in Essentials and I need them for a specific part of my game. 

After a while of searching, I found Spriters Resource, which has a sprite sheet of all the overworld sprites for every NPC in RSE. I was happy to find this, because it's the only place I've seen with the Hex Maniac overworld sprites. 

This is where I need help, because I have no experience with computer art or photo editing. In order to use them in Essentials, I'd need a sprite sheet of their overworld sprites on a transparent background. How do I take just the Hex Maniac sprites specifically from this photo, and make the background transparent? (Credit for the sprites will be given as requested by the photo)

[Shade]

You can use a program like Paint.NET to make things transparent.



Redblueyellow goes into way better detail below. \/

[redblueyellow]

This would probably go under Discussion Boards>Help Me! as it doesn't directly apply to ripping, but you made an effort about it. Close enough.

Anyways, my guess would be to isolate the overworld sprites for the hex maniac with set boundaries (make each sprite have the same dimensions to make the animation flow). It probably isn't 100% correct, but here is a quick jab at it:

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Basically what I did is opened the image in Paint.net, isolated the hex maniac sprites and pasted them into a new file. From there, just removed the background using the magic wand tool (S) with 0% tolerance and global flood mode (from the toolbar).

It might be a good idea to compare it to another npc sprite sheet that you might have in Essentials. I've never used Essentials before, but a quick Google search brought up what looks to be their wikia which should have some good information on it.

EDIT: Dang, ninja'd.

[StrawberryOreo]

Thanks to both of you  This is very helpful.