Creating Sprites

[Grimlock64]

Hey, I'm thinking of taking a whack at making my own chars for Mugen (I wanna try to give to the mugen community instead of just take it XD ) and I was wondering if, instead of searching the internet for sprite sheets (I haven't checked the whole database just yet for what kind of chars I want), could I do something in MS Paint? Like when other people do original characters and don't do heavy, well done edits to existing characters. 

[Trasgo7]

MS Paint is a good tool as it is free and simple.  You CAN make edits with it.  However, you need to keep one thing in mind: 8-bit.

MUGEN sprites all have 8-bit depth (256 colors).  When you save your sprites in *.BMP format, don't select 24-bit or you won't be able to edit the palette.

Having said that, you will have a more difficult time with MS Paint than say Corel PaintShop Pro or Adobe Photoshop because of MS Paint's unforgiving ctrl-Z implementation...

[The Great Matsutzu]

I actually use MS Paint for all of my sprite edits. 

[BLue BoMBeR]

I actually use MS Paint for all of my sprite edits. 

we are the same

[nick09]

if you want something close to photoshop.

use Gimp if you want to.

[BLue BoMBeR]

if you want something close to photoshop.

use Gimp if you want to.

whats this gimp do?