fuse animated gif and jpg

I have some serious trouble with animated gifs
All i want to to is place a small animated gif on a jpg (and create a new animated gif).
Is there any simple way to resize an animated gif ar at least place it on a certain spot on a larger picture. I dont want to have to edit every single layer and put them back together because that would take ages and i would have big problems placing every part of the gif at the same position.

Photoshop CS3 can do this with little issue. Just drag and drop, and merge the two textures.

Surely there's a way of saving the individual gif frames, doing a batch resize, then recomposing the gif?

I'm a graphical noob, but what I said sounds logical to me ^^

[edit] bah - just tried it out with The Gimp; animated gifs resize just fine

How many layers do you have? Are you refering to the frames?

Anyway...yeah Photoshop can deal with them.

I have around 35 layers/frames (if i remember correctly)
I tried Gimp because its free and can create animated gifs but i failed at selecting and moving more than one layer at a time. If i could only select more than one layer and move them all at once my problem would be solved.
(anyway all that picture size / layer size / canvas size stuff is still confusing for me)

Guess i should look for a copy of photoshop once in a while...

PS: Im asking because i want to put the animeted "laughing man" logo from "ghost in the shell" SAC on some of my pictures and will probably use them as animated wallpapers

an "image resize" should affect -all- layers

It seems to me that what you want to do, can't be done. You seem to just want to stick an animated .gif on a .jpg, but what do you think you will end up with? An animated .gifpeg?

What you would have to do (afaik) is use a program like Photo Shop or Animation Studio (Paint Shop Pro). You would probably start with a new, 35 frame, animation the size of the .jpg. Then set the .jpg as the background for the animation. Then add the frames from the .gif over the new background (in proper alignment). Then reprocess the whole thing into a new animated .gif (which could be quite large.)

So, yes, it would take a little work, sorry. But with the proper software it shouldn't be that hard, especially if you use a grid to align the old .gif frames onto the new ones.

of cause i want to create one big .gif file.
But since the animated gif logo i have consists of a background and the other layers only of the parts that are "overwritten" in the next frame (a rotating text in my case) the size of the file shouldn't be too big

PS resizing is no problem with gimp hope ill get the rest done as well