Create animations and banners with Advanced GIF Animator
December 25th, 2009 | Published on: Guides
Create animations and banners with Advanced GIF Animator
A good option when creating animations and GIF format banners for our web pages is Advanced GIF Animator. This application is really practical and of easy and intuitive use, with many options to take advantage from. To create an animation, once we open the program, we select File>New, and an emerging window will pop up asking to list all the images to be included on the animation.
Advanced GIF Animator supports the most popular graphic formats like TIF, PNG, GIF, JPG, PCX, BMP and many more. Once we finish adding them, we click on Next. It’s important to point out that after this process you can still add more images, or reorganize or delete them. In many cases, not all the images are of the same size. However, Advanced GIF Animator scales the animation taking the biggest one as the base, so in the next dialog box we’ll need to do some configuration if we want the smallest to be on the upper left corner or at the centre of the frame. Later on, we’ll be able to decide this individually for each of them, but for now is an applied format to all the animation frames.
Once we get to the next screen, we have to specify on its top part, the exhibition length of each image. The bottom part of the window asks to enter the number of repetitions that the GIF file will do when visualized.
Once we’ve done this, we’ll have the images loaded to the Advanced GIF Animator main window. We’ll see them on the left side, organized vertically from top to bottom. Clicking on each frame we’ll be able to edit them individually, having the possibility to set length, slide and place in the animation, as well as easily edit them with a little application that comes with software.
In order to change the order in which an image appears, on the upper bar we’ll see, on the “Frame Toolbar”, a few buttons with, an up arrow on one of them, and the other one with a down arrow. By pressing them we’ll be able to move the image selected. Using the same bar, we can also insert a blank sheet and add or remove images.
To see how the project is going on, on the upper part, on the “Animation Toolbar” there’s a PLAY button that will run the animation up to where we did it. Once we are satisfied with the result, we can just save.
To create a banner with Advanced GIF Animator, the process is even easier, as it counts with an assistant. We select File>Banner Wizard and a window will emerge where we’ll choose its size, being able to adapt itself even to the size of any image.
The next step is adding a background to the banner, having the option to put an image, a full color or 2 colors that can be graduated depending on predefined diagrams. On the next dialog box we can add the text to be included on the banner, with different format options to choose from. On the upper part we have a series of effects that can be applied to the text sample and length options, with buttons to pre-visualize the banner situated on the left side.
Once finished, we’ll go back to the Advanced GIF Animator main screen, being able to edit the final result as if it was an animation as described on the first part.
As we could see, Advanced GIF Animator is a tool that allows us to create GIF files in a very simple way and within a few steps, offering multiples options to do it.
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