I didn't know if there was a trick to it or anything like layering it a certain way... oh well....

 

i used imageready, it came with photoshop.
im not sure if paint.net can animate...can it?

 

I don't think so. I read through the manual and it does't seem to have anything about animating.

 

Here is a link to some FREE animation programs. I have played around with Sqirlz Morph a little bit but not enough to use it very well.

 

Squirlz Morph seems to have large file sizes when you animate. Brent's sig is just a hair over 500KB (using Squirlz) but the same in PS would be about half that...