button resize

[Andrew]

Hey, Revolution list.  I'm new to revolution, but I have much 
experience with Hypercard.
I was wondering if you fine folks could give me some tips on how to 
deal with images and animation in Revolution.
The main problem that I'm having with Revolution is getting an image's 
rect to be the right size.  Say I create a cartoon of a man in 
photoshop and I paste him into Revolution.  Then my little man becomes 
an "image" in Revolution language.  However, when I paste him in, the 
rect of the image is the size of the entire card!  How can I get the 
rect of my little man to be exactly the size of him?

Now a slightly more complicated question:
I used to make games in Hypercard by animating the icons of buttons.  
The buttons could move around the screen while their icons were 
changing simultaneously.  Revolution has me excited because of its 
capability to handle large, colorful images.
In trying to animate these images, the only thing I can figure out is 
to have a new image for each "frame" of the animation.  Then I would 
program the script to hide one image (the first frame) and show the 
next image (the second frame) in the same place.  The trouble with this 
is the following:  Say every card of the stack is a different "level" 
of my game.  Then, I would need a copy of all my little man in all his 
poses on every card; that would mean a whole bunch of hidden images 
sitting around at the same.  Is there any way to have these images 
somehow "belong" to the stack so they could be referenced from any 
card?   Is this the best way to do what I'm trying to do, or am I 
approaching the animation thing wrong?

Thanks in advance for your help!
Andrew