Newbie trying to create an Animated GIF

I'm a newbie working with FW-CS3 on a Vista environment.
I have two images (equal size) from which I want to create an
animated gif,
whereby they rotate intermittently in an endless loop (i.e.
image A displays
and then fades into image B, which after a while fades back
to image A)
What is the easiest way to create this in FW-CS3? Is there
any kind of a
wizard (or tutorial) to accomplish this?

ClueLess wrote:
> What is the easiest way to create this in FW-CS3? Is
there any kind of a
> wizard (or tutorial) to accomplish this?
It's better to do this kind of animation in Flash because the
resulting
file size will be much smaller. If you have to do it in
Fireworks,
then use the animation wizard to fade image one out in ten
frames. Place
copies of the second image on frames 5 through 10 so that it
is fully
revealed by the time image 1 finishes fading out. On frame
11, begin
fading image two out, and on frame 5 of the second image
fade, place a
copy of the first image and repeat. It sounds complicated,
but if you
try it a couple of times, you'll get it.
Linda Rathgeber [PVII] *Adobe Community Expert-Fireworks*
http://www.projectseven.com
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