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Ok. I did read the help and tried to follow the steps. Then I followed a tutorial . I created my animation and then I clicked "Save Optimized As" and I saved it as a gif. Then, when I go to view the gif, it's just gray. I did set the animation up in the animations palette. And I'm not sure I understand how to "create a seperate layer for each cell in the animation" (I might know, but I just don't know it. :) )

think about hand drawn animations. did you ever draw a moving stick man on the edge of the pages of a notebook? or a sticky pad? when you flip the pages it looks like it's moving? what image ready is doing is "flipping the pages".

you need to put each step on a new layer, like you would put each stick man on a new page. each new layer above the last. when you put together the animation in the palette. make sure only the layer you want to view for that step is visible. save optimized as puts all the layers together and makes them move.

It should also play in your animation pallet when you push the play button. (triangle like on a vcr) 

      When I open it later (the gif file), it just shows a gray box rather than
      my animation.




Where are you opening the animation? -Did you try windows picture viewer or ie?
Is the "gray box" the first frame of your animation or is it a "broken image"?

I am having a similar problem and am finding that the program is faulty, not the instructions. There is something terribly wrong with Image Ready CS (I do NOT have the same problem in Image Ready 3). My post is here.
ChickNew, "Unable to Optimize Animated gif from Layered PSD" #, 14 May 2005 11:16 pm </cgi-bin/webx?50@@.3bba6e08>

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To dave milbut: You made me understand it much better, so thanks a ton. But I still do not know how to do those steps and in which order. (Sorry if you feel like choking me due to my stupidity in ImageReady--I'm only 12.)
To Lynch Mike: When I open the .gif file in ImageReady, it shows the gray thingy. And when I open it anywhere else, like IE, etc. The gray box thing is not just the first frame, but it is affecting all of the frames. In other words, all of the frames are just gray. :(

It sounds more like you don't have an animation in the first place
Where can you open it that it looks like anything?

Yes, I do have the source file. And I probably did save the file as a non-animated gif file, I don' know. I mean, it works perfectly as a psd, but when I save optimized as, it just shows either a gray or black thing. And the source file obviously has layers (because it's a psd). And I know you cannot create an animation in Photoshop. I'm not that thick. I mean, I am twelve, but psychologically I'm much older.