Is this something that GIMP can do, or is it common to any graphics program.
The kind of animation I have been looking at is demonstrated at www.spritely.net
where the birds fly along, flapping their wings.
The program uses plugins for the different effects, but that's not what I am interested in;
it does work very well, btw, (that's spritely and jquery).
It is the file on which it is based, it is ONE .png image file, incorporating 6 images
of the bird, in various stages of animation.
I want to create my own 'sprites'.
Haven't found anything non-confusing yet on Google.
The excellent Gimp and Photoshop tutorials do not address this particular point.
Perhaps it is regarded as too basic and simple.

Thanks.