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You could get Gimp. It's a free program, related to (or possibly from) GNU.
It works pretty well for both drawing animating, and can probably be used for photo editing too.

Other programs are Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Corel Painter, Krita, Paint Shop Pro and of course, the dreadful Microsoft Paint.
Several of those you need to pay for. I will recommend the Gimp if you want it for free.

ok thanks a lot

yea, zophia, gimp stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program, so id say its from GNU lol. i use it a lot, definately the best free one out there.

Ahhh, yeah, I knew I'd seen the GNU written all over the program, it's just been too long since I last had access to it. X3

One word of warning though- GIMP isn't particularly user-friendly. It takes a while to get used to the various layout of the commands.

I, for one, still have no idea what the locking in on the layers dialog does.

If you lock a layer, you don't accidentally do something to it, like place a line on it while you thought you were doing it on another layer.

The Gimp does have a fairly constructive help-thingy, popping up with tips every time you open the program.
I found it a lot easier to learn to use than Photoshop.
And - I think - that word of warning goes for most image editing programs. You'll be completely lost in the many options when you start using it, but experience and possibly tutorials should get you on the right track soon enough.
The exception may be MS PAint, but everyone knows what quality you get from that...

Btw which version of it should i download. It gives me plenty of options. I have the latest version of windows vista.

Just curious, did you figure it out, woody?

gimp is a offencive word :{

gimp is a offencive word :{

my teacher told me it means retard

It is also a name of a suit that is quite disgusting...

There is also Paint.NET which is an ok program, but I find GIMP to be better...

I like GIMP because I can animate...

KingRyan

HARHAR omg kingryan, I can't believe you know what a gimp suit is. I rofl.

Gimp as used these days means a lot of things...from legless or missing legs to retard...GIMP the program is an acronym, however.

Anyway, how come I'm so off-topic...I blame you, kingryan!

So I'm not spamming: I find GIMP is perfectly adequate for all your image editing needs. Provided you know what you're doing and therefore don't have to use fancy plug-in scripts so you can remove those ghastly red-eyes or whatever.

Go to Wikipedia and find the disambiguation for gimp... That one related to the suit was a big surprise for me. X3

Anyway. Go GIMP!
Still haven't figured out how to edit the frame delays in the .gifs, but what.