Thanks Xceiverx !! Your works are great and I always check for them -daily!! Yes I've poped in a couple of gif animations myself with no problems. But they started as drawings and photo layer combo's and went gif reasonably clear. Seems the totally Bryce images break-up bad and just don't display clearly--so I was hopeing to bypass gif and use a better image keeping format. Oh well -- guess I'm out of luck . Thanks a ton for your speedy reply --- Wizard