Well I made mine by using that very large list of all 150 pokemon and then cropped out my favorite pokemon then reduced the size. If anyone wants I can make them one of their favorite pokemon?
EDIT: Switched from new glane to old Infernox
No I avoid Paint as much as I can. I used Corel photo album. It came with the computer I bought. It is like a free knock off of Corel photoshop or Adobe photoshop.