(15) Take 1st image, turn globe & base layer back on. Then...layers/merge/visible. Save this file in psp format as image 1. Proceed to do the same with images 2 and 3.

(16) For those that are familiar with "Animation Shop", you need no further explanation. I use the "Animation Wizard", same size as 1st image, transparent canvas colour, repeat the animation indefinitely using 20/100th of a second. After loading all three frames, and animating, I save as a compuserve gif. As I often use sunburst gradients for the background and have a glass face, I customize the colour function to use "map colors to palette via error diffusion" rather than "to nearest color". I keep the colours at 256 this way with highest quality for compression. For those that aren't familiar with "Animations", please go to the subsequent steps, and I will guide you through them.

(17) Open up animation shop and go to the animation wizard icon at the upper left hand corner. Click on this image.

(18) In the first screen image you select the size of the frames.....same size as the first image frame. Then you click on next button to go to the next screen. Here you chose your background for each frame image.....it is transparent, but you should also make sure the opaque background selection is at a medium grey, (R,G,B, =192 for all), as it will be used when the program choses to blend partial transparencies. (I haven't quite figured out the "whys???" to this, but I know that if it is white....you'll get the "jaggies" around the globe). *smile* Then go to the next screen.

(19) The first screen image is for positioning the frames and identifying background selection for partial transparencies. Use the upper left corner with canvas colour. In the subsequent screen the animation is selected for repetitive rendering with duration of frames being 20/100ths of a second.