how do you take a couple of pictures and make them into one of those animated .gif pictures?

 

use a program like fireworks or imageready (comes with photoshop) and create frames. save as gif. Easy as that

 

Is there any freeware that can do this?

 

I think the demo photoshop that is downloadable from adobe.com contains imageready. You get a month use out of it for free. No idea about freeware software, though I'm sure there are some out there.

Try looking at tucows.com and download.com

 

GIMP works well under Linux.

 

... Or in windows. http://www.wingimp.org/

 

http://download.com.com/3120-20-0.ht...ifs&tg=dl-2001