Since my old topic has been ignored quite hevily...

[Gors]

no

paint is the best program for GETTING INTO making sprites

but when you get right down to it, it's an extremely barebones program that's missing a lot of essential things you need for pixelling/spriting/whathaveyou that you can find in almost any other image editing program

graphicsgale is literally the best program for sprites

I second that.

I just started using it, it's blowing my mind