with animation imageshack. comes with photoshop, and to make the images with him in the background and all that and the swirleys around hm, photoshop
well whatever photoshop version u have and then use imageready, then if u need a tut for it look in the tuts section or look for one under the web resources (its pinned in General Discussion)
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You need to "buy" Photoshop by Adobe. Photoshop can do the pictures, and it comes bundled with a program called ImageReady that does animation.
imageready is a simple antimation program its not made to do alot of the antimation you might see in a movie or tv. But it works for the simple task that make a sig look creative.