Program and Gifs

[Mosquito]

What program do you leetish ppl use to make graphics?
i use paint (no, iam not saying iam leet)
but i have a problem there
when i save something i made in gif
the colors gets wierd :/

So, theres 2 questions

1.) What program do you use?
2.) How do i save it to gif whitout loosing some color information?

[shavomombetto]

I use paint that comes with windows to make gfx and downloaded animagic gif animator for animations.