Ulead GIF Animator

 

Ulead® GIF Animator ™ 5 is the industry's most robust and affordable tool to create animated GIFs. Easily create fast-loading animation for your Web site and PowerPoint presentations.

Intuitive Interface

Gain power with simplicity:
  • Object-based workspace supports True Color source objects
  • Tab-based workspace with Edit, Optimize and Preview modes
  • Object Manager controls a common pool of objects for all frames
  • Frame Panel provides filmstrip view for easy object animation
  • Preview animation directly on the composition workspace
  • Full floating/dockable interface
 
Easy Composition

Create and edit with precision:
  • Animation Wizard walks you through creating an animation sequence
  • Add video or other animation as separate frame objects
  • Add image, text, animated text and PhotoImpact path objects
  • Open PhotoImpact, Photoshop and Paint Shop Pro layers as objects
  • Add live text objects with character-level formatting control
  • Object tweening for automatic trajectory across frames
  • Reuse GIF Animator UGA project files which retain source objects
  • Use round trip auto-updating with objects in external image editors
  • Built-in image editing with selection, paint and transform tools

Dynamic Effects

Apply a variety of awesome special effects:
  • Add animated text effects with move-in and move-out paths
  • Animated text objects are always-editable at the character level
  • Add shadow, neon and glow to animated text effects in real-time
  • Apply various video transitions and video filters
  • Take advantage of Photoshop compatible filter plug-in support

Powerful Optimization

Ensure fast-loading animation:
  • Optimization Wizard automates compression based on presets
  • Advanced options optimize for target file size or compression ratio
  • Before-and-after animated previews display real-time optimized results
  • Batch optimize GIF animation by folders or by selected files
  • Flexible palette options for full control over colors
  • Apply the latest compression techniques, including lossy GIF support
  • Web Safe Palette control for color consistency on the Web
 
Flexible Output

Enjoy a variety of output options:
  • Create True Color AVI, QuickTime, MPEG and AutoDesk Animation
  • Save as raster-based True Color Flash animation
  • Generate HTML files to display GIF animation in Web browsers
  • Send self-playing animated greetings with personalized messages and music
  • Output animation frames as sequentially numbered JPEG or PNG files
  • Save objects as multi-layered PhotoImpact and Photoshop files

 

 

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