GIF animations help is unclear

sorry but trying to follow the step-by-step in adobe help, well, i was not able to follow it. i just want to put two jpg's in the same animation.

HI yankeebrit and welcome to our community
As for the timing, I'm guessing you have an option in
Photoshop to determine or configure the speed? I have played with
an older application called Microsoft GIF Animator and you are able
to configure the duration of each animation frame there. Often, a
GIF animation is somewhere around 10 frames per second.
As for the background color, I'm guessing that black (or near
black) is set as the transparent color in Photoshop? I don't
believe the transparency will come through. So probably the best
you can do is to set the background color to match whatever you are
placing the image against.
Hopefully something here was helpful... Rick

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HI yankeebrit and welcome to our community
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Thanks for the response.
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[Edit 23h :] Back to CS6 et à l'ancienne méthode... Tant pis.

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