Izayoi

First tried to edit Tsubaki's idle standing animation, then tried Lambda's idle standing animation. For Tsubaki I was using that thing that appears to be a piece of her hat at the top right. For Lambda, the little yellow dot to the left of her. I made sure everything was lined up pixel perfect. I didn't resize the sprites, but I did copy-paste them to a uniformly sized canvas (seeing as they were all different resolutions, for some reason). I tried first with Photoshop CS4 and then downloaded GIMP after I gave up on thatm but GIMP confused the fuck out of me and I didn't even make an effort to start editing in it.

Hey guys, I was wondering if anyone could share some tips on sprite editing. I'm trying to animate them but they turn out jumpy, even when I line-up what I thought were reference points. Is there a trick to getting them aligned properly or does it just take a lot of patience and a good eye? Spent an hour banging my head against my monitor earlier trying to figure it out but I just can't do it, and Google is zero help. I figured somebody here ought to know.