Simplest ever animated .Gif in CS

I'm having the hardest time figuring out how to make a simple animated gif in Photoshop CS or ImageReady CS.

All I want to do is take image1.jpg & image2.jpg, and turn them into one .gif file that rotates between the two. Nothing fancy like rollovers or anything. I've read like 5 tutorials on how to do this, but I cannot figure them out to save my life and it's very frustrating.

Thanks a lot for any help!

Kevin

well.. what are you doing?

If you can post step by step, not in great detail, what you are doing then maybe someone can see where you are going wrong.

I have no idea what I'm doing, really. Posting a step-by-step description wouldn't really say much, other than that I am opening image1, then putting image2 as a new layer. The tutorials all say I'm supposed to do such and such in the web-content box, but none of the options it says I need to select are available within it.

All I really need is the steps to take two images and have them become one animated .gif. I'm sure it's really not that hard, it's just photoshop is new to me and I'm a bit slow at new things sometimes.

well, for starters, you can use photoshop to create your images, use as many layers as you want frames for your animation.

When you're ready to make the animation. go into imageRready. You can do this while your image is open by clicking on the tool bar just to focus on it, then by clicking on the very last (at the bottom) button (it's of an arrow pointing to a block). If you hover over this button it will say "go to adobe image ready". This is what you want.

Once it loads, you can make your animation. Simply add the first image into the first frame. Then create another frame and add the second image into that frame. You'll notice that the current selected layer is the image that is added into the frame. So to add the image all you do is click on the frame, then select your layer to use.
Do that for both frame 1 and frame 2 and you'll have your animation. You can also set the delay time for the transition from frame 1 to frame 2. Just play around, and use the help files to search out help on what you want to do. The photoshop help files are the best I've seen ever.. very helpful..