Handling images(alot)

Hey. How would I go about handling a bunch of single images that create an animation. Like I need a way to line the sprites up too...I'm just wandering what everyone does or if theres a program or something. I was thinking like have txt file and the program reads off what the offsets should be for each image..Thanks for any help.

Offset?
Each animation frame in an animated image is a single image.

So to create one, you can easily use the CreateImage command, load all frames and assign the images to the frames.

Is that how people normally do it?..I mean I would use the animation strips but I can never line any of that up correctly.

You can load a strip with loadanimimage, and specify the sizes of the cells. Lining everything up perfectly in your paint program can indeed be a challenge, but not a whole lot you can do about that.
You can make it a little easier by using a (temporary) grid in the background, or other location markers that can help you allign the images in the animation strip, but it's still handwork.

... Most have a snap to grid feature.
You know you want 5 cells of 64*64 so create a file
which matches these dimensions
e.g. 320*64 or whatever
The set you grid size to 64*64 and 'snap to grid'.
I then copy/paste each image and they drop nicely into place. Having said that if you have lots of images and you simply want them in a single file then search for Glueit.