You probably missed the "rogue sigs" I was making for certain individuals a while back. I think they may still be in some of the threads.
I personally use Photoshop Elements 2.0 falmost exclusively for still pic editing. Elements is very good at alot of things, that is once you get used to the adobe way of thinking (which is 3 degrees out of normal). It also does animated gifs, just use layers as frames and "save for web" and it's make the layers animated.
LMK if ya want a sig or something.