Ok DH Ninja, i can see you are very good with this so i need to ask you a question because i am a noob to this sort of field.
i know you are no dout aware of the series super mario bros z, and got inspired to something like it. so i went and got macromedia dream weaver 8, Photo shop 6, Fireworks 8, gamemaker, and macromedia flash 8.
after that i thought, alright this will be easy. also with the thought this will take a while to learn and use i went through the titorials. i get only a portion (10%) of what it said and looked over it for about a week without any progress.
another problem i am having is actualy using photo shop. I went online to get the sprites that i needed to use for this (mario, luigi, sonic, ect.) and could only find sprite sheets. i have a basic understanding of photo shop, and i know how to single out a sprite from it's sprite sheet, but the problem is, i cant get aride of the white back ground. i us windows xp and if you could be so kind as to shed some light on my prodicoment, i would greatly apreciate it.
P.S. the story i am using is my fan fic on this site called "The Rebelion"