to do my 2 yearly animations for a contest web site. I started on the background and remembered my rule -- "use the help!" and this was very helpful and "day-saving." Hopefully this will work with CS4 although it seems written for CS3. Thanks again. Excellent -- I will be teaching this to a new generation of users in an Introductory Web Design class. Our school recently upgraded to the CS products and finding good intro items for kids without using a text book is great. Thanks! If you don't have the Animation option then I guess you are running an old version of Photoshop. In that case, click the Image Ready button on the bottom of your tool palette and create the animated gif inside the little App that opens. i am running ps cs3 full version on windows xp but for some reason can't find any tween option. it isnt in the top right hand popup menu and i cant find any tweening options anywhere else... please help!?! Torn, you're probably in the wrong view. You need to be in "frame" animation view. Click the little 'film strip' rectangle at the bottom right of the animation floating palette. Now you will be able to choose tween. I saw an earlier comment about getting a gif animation to send/play automatically via e-mail. But I did not see a reply ... did I miss it, or? I have successfully made a gif (saved as html and image), thanks to your