WWW Gif Animator

ShareWare Version Description: From an Explorer-style interface, you can create and preview your animations while adding a variety of effects and transitions. You can add fancy banner text; apply effects such as blind, blur, emboss, fadeout and weave; apply transitions such as blur, overblend and spiral. In total almost 50 effects and transitions are available. You can import most types of image file formats, including GIF, BMP, JPG, AVI, TGA, ANI, CUR, ICO and DIB. There are also options for optimizing the size and adjusting the speed of the final animation. Animations can be saved as a single animated GIF, or as a series of GIF/JPG files..

GIF Movie Gear
Expires after 30 Day Trial Description: GIF Movie Gear offers an intuitive user inteface that lets you view all of the animation frames at once. You can preview animations in real time (as well as by single-stepping) as you make changes. The palette reduction function lets you preview the image before and after, making it easy to reduce the size of a file while maintaining the image quality. The program has tools for easily changing the frame speed and frame offsets and you can move, crop, rotate and flip individual frames.

Microsoft Gif Animator
Description: GIF animations are based on the GIF89a file format, which stores timing information to create the illusion of animation like a cartoon "flipbook". With GIF Animator you can make your animations loop, spin, fade in and out; set the size and transparency of your images; and control a wide range of other options. GIF Animator also features automatic or custom palette creation.

ULead LE Gif Animator
Description: GIF Animator offers an intuitive drag-and-drop interface. You can easily add images, arrange frames, adjust the animation speed, preview animations, reposition images, and preview your animation. For creating animations from a single image, there are commands for cropping, duplicating, flipping and rotating. There are a variety of transition effects and image filters to add. Once your animation is ready to save, a GIF optimization command reduces the file size by automatically performing difference analysis. This removes redundant portions from each frame and optimizes the local and global palettes.

GIF Clean 32
Description: GifClean32 makes GIF images smaller by removing unnecessary information that may be built in. GIF image files contain a number of internal structures. These structures govern how the GIF is displayed, the looping counter, delay times, etc. There are also a number of comment and application extension structures. This information takes up space and could cause some delay in loading a GIF file to your Web page. GifClean can reduce the size of GIF files by up to 1k by removing this information.

Gif Construction Set
ShareWare Version Description: With GIF Construction Set, you can generate sophisticated special-effect text titles; easily create looping animation GIF files for display in browsers that support it; create transparent GIF files; manage color palettes; merge multiple GIFs together; add, edit and delete comment blocks; add text to images as plain text blocks; convert AVI video clips to to animated GIFs; and much more. It can also be used as a GIF viewer and act as a helper for web browsers.

ULead Cool 3d Version 2
Expires after 15 Day Trial Description: COOL 3D makes it easy to create three-dimensional text that glows, bounces, rotates and zooms in and out. Simply type in your text, select any font, and then apply various textures, lighting effects, colors, 3D effects, backgrounds and more to the current frame. You can use the gallery of textures and backgrounds, or use any BMP or JPG file as a building block for backgrounds or textures.

Macromedia Fireworks
Expires after 30 Day Trial Description: Fireworks was designed to make it easy to create buttons, image maps, animated GIFs, or any type of Web graphic. An export preview window lets you slice, crop, and scale images to optimally balance file size with image quality. Image mapping tools are built into the program, and a slice function lets you convert large images into smaller ones that are displayed inside an HTML table.