Help with sigs and threads

I've decided to make more of a simple sig and thread, but how do people get the sythe color in the background? Also what's the code for that color?

EDIT: Thanks Nero, what do you guys think of my sig?

 

You could screenshot, paste into PS, then get the color dropper tool and pick the color you want.

Or use a transparency...

 

Most people use transparent backgrounds, but you can just print screen and eye dropped the colour like Nero said.

 

How do I make it transparent? Even when I select transparent it shows up as white

 

You have it set to transparent but with a solid foreground colour (white). What you can do is just make a new layer, then delete the background (white) layer and it should be transparent.

 

I've already answered to that answer into another topic of yours.Anyways.

Do what the picture shows.

http://i40.tinypic.com/166eib5.png

Just remove the background layer and make sure you save the image into .PNG FORMAT.