HVS ColorGIF 2.0 User Manual

Overview

Congratulations! You have purchased one of the most powerful color reduction and GIF creation packages money can buy. HVS ColorGIF 2.0 is a major enhancement to its award-winning predecessor, HVS Color. Some of the additions include:

• Native GIF support
• Live quality and GIF size preview
• Fixed Palettes, including Netscape and System palettes
• High-quality HVS dithering algorithms
• Both Export and Filter modules for maximum ease of use
• HVS MultiPalettes for multi-image color tables
• Powerful transparency tools, including color ranges
• Palette optimization tools to reduce size of existing GIFs
• And much, much more...

This manual provides an overview of the features and functionality of HVS ColorGIF 2.0. If your questions are not answered by this document, please visit the Digital Frontiers Customer Support Board, where registered users can review and post questions regarding the use of HVS products.

For more general information and helpful tips regarding image reduction, see The Craft of Reducing GIF File Sizes. For information regarding the creation of HVS MultiPalettes, see the HVS MultiPalette Creation.