| Animated GIFs are the best way to catch someone's eye on the Web without slowing your page down to a crawl. And GIF Animator is the best tool to make them with. |
You can make an animated GIF in almost any graphics program, but the features you need are often hidden away in a full image-editing package. Because GIF Animator is designed just for working with animations, the tools are easy to find and use--or the wizards will do most of the work for you. The interface is easy to use: with a filmstrip view of all the frames in your animation and a list of all the objects across all the frames, you can work across multiple frames, overlaying one object on another; this allows you to see how smooth the movement will be. You can edit the images, produce intermediate frames automatically by tweening from one image to another, optimise the colour palette to make the file smaller and preview the final animation, all in the main window, with the choice of doing everything yourself or using wizards to use standard settings. | | A simple set of editing tools let you paint, erase and add text, and excellent integration with programs such as PhotoImpact, Photoshop, and Paint Shop Pro means you can work with layers in an image as objects inside GIF Animator or update your images in another package and automatically see the changes in GIF Animator. There's a set of special effects and transitions but you can also use Photoshop plug-ins and filters. You can work with video files as well as still images and import and export a range of formats including Flash. | | This is the latest version of a classic utility that's packed with features but still easy to use. If you need images that move, make them in GIF Animator |
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