Ignore all these other links and just go to
http://tinyurl.com/tpndesigns
Follow his site to the .gif image tutorials. Download what he tells you (they are safe, I checked). Basically it's like a post-it-note animation. Just edit one image, save it, edit it, save it. Then when you are ready, insert them into the .gif maker and it will create a .gif image out of them. (Make sure to save all original editted files as .gif and not .png). This site is the quickest and easiest to understand in my opinion

Good luck.