Thank you guys for all the help. As far as my comp it is not running in 32 bit color, I'm running Windows Me and It only goes up to 24 bit I guess as there is no 32 bit available. So I assume this is the reason why my animations are "behind bars" so to speak. Your solution sounds good dale, but I was curious If it will take a longer amount of time to put the frames all together and also If I can do this in Adobe Image Ready, I think I saw something like that in there but don't really mess with it much as I usually use Photoshop. The reason I ask abotu the time consumption is because I am currently working on a rather big.... er scratch that ... HUGE project and anything I can do to save time is very important. Thank you all soooo very much for all your help and suggestions, I'm glad this is such a very helpful community and very much appriciate it.