this problem, I don't have the animations option under Window. I also looked and i don't have Imageready either. I have the Photoshop and Premire Elements 8. Can you please help, I really want to make and animation. nah nah nah nah NO man this tut ain't workin cus I ain't stooping, to a person using m@c, what a low life f@g. I use da M1cr0s0ft, da best operating system, so i ain't giv a cr@p about ur m0thafckr m@c,.. by the way, im black. I haven't done this for a while and this was a great refresher, however In cs2 hen i would save the gif, i could email to a client and they could see it run right in their email. Now it is simply a static pic of frame 1. Am I doing something wrong? Is there a way to make this work like that? It appears Holly is having the same problem and has not had a reply. Petec and Holly: The problem with e-mailing animations is that most e-mail applications (and most businesses) will default to a non-HTML view style when opening e-mails because of virus threats. I know that in MS Outlook there is an option to disable animations as part of the HTML based e-mail page. I would guess that is your problem. If you are sending an e-mail and want to test an animated *.gif, try using an HTML email program like GMail or Yahoo. Both of those enable image encoding in