November 1998
Intermediate to advanced
578 pages
28h 15m
English
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Tools
You don’t need to search very far to find a GIF animation tool—there seem to be scores of them available. Regardless of the tool you choose, the interface is basically the same. Tools tend to differ somewhat in the degree to which they are able to optimize (shrink the file size of) of the resulting graphic. The following sections provide an overview of the most popular and/or recommended tools.
GIF Animation Utilities
These are useful tools dedicated to the creation of animated GIF files.
- GifBuilder 0.5 (Mac only)
GifBuilder, developed by Yves Piguet, is the old standby for creating animated GIFs on the Macintosh. It’s freeware that’s easy and intuitive to use. Its method of optimization, although adequate, is not as efficient as some other programs. It is available for download at http://www.pascal.com/mirrors/gifbuilder/.
- GIF Movie Gear (Windows only)
GIF Movie Gear lets you view thumbnails of all frames at a glance and directly manipulate them. Includes drag-and-drop functionality, real-time previewing of palette and compression options, and support for AVI, BMP, Photoshop files, JPEG, as well as GIF. GIF Movie Gear offers pixel-level optimization. You can download a trial version from http://www.gamani.com. Registration is $30.
- Ulead GIF Animator 2.0 (Windows only)
Ulead’s GIF Animator features wizards for quickly and easily constructing animations, 200 levels of undo, pixel-level optimization, built-in transition and animation effects, a plug-in architecture for adding ...
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