I have never really messed with Animation Shop much but I was trying to create a simple animation for a band's web site. The first time I made the thing it had a little of the previous frame showing on the right border (behind the second image) but the transistion worked perfectly. So I made the images exactly the same size and just thought I'd do it again. Now, I have tried it about 25 times, using every option, and when the page transistions all you see is the black background as one image fades away (or cuts away). The first time looked much better, with the original image being visible as the whole thing transistioned. Not sure this made sense but you can see both at the following link. What in the heck did I do right the first time that I'm not doing now? Thanks for any help - I'm old and stupid!

http://www.thekruizersband.com/animation/animation.htm

The second one looks to me like you chose custom color instead of animation frame or that when you save the image you did not have both layers visible. It also looks to me like when you redid it and resized it you used the resize instead of cropping the image which still left a little transparent section on the side. So to fix it use the crop tool on the womans pic and set it to 339x242 then paste as a new layer on the bands pic making sure both layers are visible and save as .pspimage. Take into AS and on the image transition screen select curtains, transition length 1.6 sec, frames per second 56 fps, tick animation frame. This is how I fixed it anyway.

HTH
Rae

I have tried all of the options (both transparent and opaque backgrounds) and the "Start With" option is set to "Animation Frame".

Here's a screenshot of the process:

http://www.thekruizersband.com/animation/animate.htm

It's crazy, as I said, because it worked once perfectly and has never worked again. There aren't really a lot of options to choose and all of the tips I found on the net just say to do what I've done. Any more ideas would be appreciated.

Ok this is what I did. I took your first animation and opened it in AS. Exported the first and the 56th frame into PSP. Cropped the 56th frame to 340x240 then resized the first frame to the same dimensions. Took the 56th frame and pasted it on top of the the first frame as a new layer. Made sure both layers were visible then saved as .pspimage. Opened the new image in AS and this is what I did.


http://pic14.picturetrail.com/VOL550/3505104/7206834/119353176.jpg

Notice what is circled on mine which is where I think the mistake is as yours is not ticked.

Rae