Oh dear. This is the place you do not want to be. This is, without a doubt, the most back-breaking graphics-making process known to man. Actually, I take that back. This is the most back-breaking process known to man, but the tutorial you are about to read is a close second.
Either way, by one mean or by another, you've sucessfully gotten your clip into ImageReady, got rid of unwanted frames, and NOW you are ready to make an animation. Whew.

Oh, and before I forget, you can crop your animation whenever you want. Just use the crop tool: and make it the size you need, weather it be chopping off the ends to make a square, or making it smaller to fit in a larger avatar. You can view my tutorial for transferring a gif from one file to the next here.

Rather to prolong this horribly long process, let's just dive right in!

Note: If you plan on transferring your animation from it's original file to another, weather it be for the purposes of icon making or whatever, I suggest you do that before going through the actual animation process, because otherwise you'd have to do it all over again, and that's just a ridiculous waste of time. Complete this tutorial first, and then head back here!

First, add a whooooooole bunch of frames in the Frame Layer. Don't worry that they're all the same...that will be fixed shortly. You need one frame per layer. If you're not sure how many frames to get, just make more then you'll need...you can always delete the extra ones at the end.
Okay, so the first frame has the first layer 'eyed' (we'll call it that, it means that the 'eye' icon is selected and it's the layer you see in the actual file at that moment.), so that is good to go.

Now click on the second frame, and 'eye' the second layer.

Click for Full-Size

That makes the second frame in the gif.
Now click on the third frame, and 'eye' the third layer.

Click for Full-Size

That is your third frame.
Repeat for alllllll the rest of the frames and layers. Boring, isn't' it? Lol for a small 30-frame file, it shouldn't be too bad, but one with 130 might take a while. Don't worry though you'll finish sooner then you think. :)

Part 8: Saving the Avie
So you're alllll finished making all the layers visible. Congratulations, you've just made your first avie!
There are so many other things you can now do the Avie to make it all fancy, such as adding a border, fading the first and last frames, and other things. However, as this tutorial has been long enough, we'll end it here and I'll do the rest of the things another time.
But of course you have to save the avie before you can use it!

So go to File > Save Optimized As

Type in whatever you want to call it, and viola! YOU HAVE AN AVIE!

Here is the finished product:

If you need a place to upload your avie, Imageshack.us is a very hassle free option.

Congratulations and I hope this tutorial helped you! I really hope it wasn't too long or confusing...I'm not very good at explaining things to people. :D If you have any questions or comments, feel free to email me