General advice on sprite painting?

[Panpiper]

Thank you DrPraetorious. I can see that things have progressed a lot since I played around with Paint Shop Pro 3.0 twelve years ago.

By the way, I am still looking forward to your race design system. I like working within a point structure, it makes it relatively easy to balance things. Unlike this Chaos mod. ;-)

[Sombre]

I use psp and never mess around with layers, alphas, transparencies and all that rubbish. I just use 0, 0, 0 for transparent, 255 0 255 for shadow.

It's not rocket science.

[Foodstamp]

I do it the same way sombre does. But I need to find a good graphics utility that works off a jump drive. Anyone know of one? =)