Thanks guys.  I think I'm going to play around with Gimp for a little while.  Can any of you recommend any best practices when creating things like animated sprites?  Any good tutorials?  What would be the best way of creating highlights in a painted object?  Dodge and burn?

Thanks again

Rob

I was wondering what software was out there for specifically creating and editing sprites.  I know of gimp, photoshop, etc.  but feel that that's a little bit of overkill in features.  What do you guys use?

Sorry if this is a re-post.  I did a search for previous posts on this topic and couldn't find anything.