Thanks Buzzkill, that helped a lot. Thought i scanned all of the tuts but guess i missed this one.
As for simply entering new text on an image but keeping everything else the same, a friend told me you need to basically recreate a new image from scratch and try and copy it. Is that true? Or is there a way to take a gif/png/whatever and strip it out in to layers or to make a layer of everything but the text and then just do a layer with a closer impersonation of the original font? Yes, newbie so sorry if these questions are too simp for people.