I could be wrong about this (it's happened a couple times), but I don't
think animated GIFs can have transparency in the first frame. The
work-around would be to set the background color for that first frame the
same as what is going to be on the page where it is displayed.

At 11:11 AM 3/7/98 -0800, Janet L. Cady wrote:
>Hi,
>Could someone take a look at
>http://www.evansville.net/~jlcady/animated.htm and tell me what's going
>on with the animated gif?
>
>The top gif is the original non-animated pic and the bottom pic is the
>one I animated using Paintshop Pro 5.0 Animator.  What I need to know is
>how I am losing my transparent background.  I thought I saved each frame
>with a transparent background after using the fill option to fill the
>bubbles with black paint, but for some reason, I keep getting the black
>solid background.
>
>Thanks for any info you may be able to provide.
>
>Janet Cady
> 
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