Anyone decent at editing photos?

[KobayashiMaru13]

I'm pretty terrible at it, and what I need done is really simple. Just take this star:

And make the background black. I have a really cheap program, and whenever I do it, there's still an outline of white around the star. I'd really appreciate your help.

 

[TheSeeker]

How's this?

 

[smiki]

Ninjad by Seeker. And his is better.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

I also took a crack at it (and Seeker's isn't showing up for me):

I guess pick whichever one you like best.

 

[TheSeeker]

^Try reloading. Not that it matters since it looks pretty much identical to the one you did,

Edited to add: For what it's worth I used a free online editor: http://pixlr.com/editor/

 

[KobayashiMaru13]

:O Thank you all! I didn't expect a response that fast... Thank you!

 

[Guartho]

I gave it a go without using the magic wand or color replacement in an effort to prevent the edge aliasing. I managed to keep the little dot of red below the elbow.

 

[Gepard]

I did one too:

I'm guessing I used the same method Guartho did: the original image as an alpha mask to cut out the shape from a solid red layer on top of a black layer.

 

[Guartho]

I inverted the image to make the background black. Then I used the hue/saturation adjustment to turn the center back to red.