Hi, I'm new to this program but it seems great.  Everything so far has been intuitive in regards to using the program.

The one thing I wanted to do myself was create a animated icon.  I looked around for a readme or something to help a complete newbie, but I found nothing.  Now I know how to use photoshop and imageready, but I'm not sure what the exact specs are for making an animated icon.

I tried using one of the animated icons I found, editing that in photoshop and using my own image...but after I finished and stuck it into objectdock, objectdock blew up. 

So I'd really like to be able to make my own, but I see no instructions anywhere (and I've searched the forum, found some post about animated shortcuts but that didn't help) to help me figure out how to do this.

Is there anyone on this board that's created them and could possibly give me the fundamentals?  What size it needs to be, how in the world do you figure out how to space them apart perfectly, couple of things like that.  Thanks in advance for any help and if I haven't made any sense or you aren't sure what I mean, please ask...I'd really like to figure this out.