how is the ease of use and learning curve??

I picked it up pretty fast. A lot of it is similar to drawing programs like Photoshop, and the animation aspect seems almost exactly like it was in Image Ready (CS2?). The difference being this is more focused on pixel animation. I like the fact that when I loaded in the .gif of Chuck from Pokemon, it displayed every color used in the image in the Palette box. If you change the colors in the box, they change in every frame of the image, so it is really easy to make alt colors of things. I haven't done much more than this with it yet, but I'll probably buy it when my trial runs out (it is like $17 or something).

thanks for the info! :3

No problem :3

<3 GraphicsGale is amazing. I used it some time back and it's so much fun.