GIF Animator

Animation in the GIF format is achieved with a sequence of images. Each image differs slightly from the other next, creating the illusion of motion. GIF files contains multiple images. The more frames a GIF file has, the better the animation quality - but the bigger the file size. So finding a balance between quality and size is important. One of the great features of the GIF format is the ability to use images with different sizes. Plus, you can position each image in any position. This makes it possible to use small images to animate selected parts of a picture. Images stored in GIFs can be viewed sequentially to produce a movie. The parameters of animation are stored in control extensions. AVD Graphic Studio gives you tools to redefine these parameters.

List of images

• List of images (frames) is placed in the left part of window.
• You can add, delete (multiple selection), move up and move down images in this list.
• List of frames has checkboxes to display images from different frames simultaneuosly on editing stage. It helps to see how one image is placed relative to other image.
• You can create new frames on base of existing using the duplicate operations.
• You can use clipboard operation for images: paste. Paste pastes image from clipboard to current image.
• You can edit image by general image editor.

Image area

Image area is placed in central part of window and contains area to consistently display the images from imagelist.

Global parameters:

• Global width and height define the window size of a GIF-file (AVI-file).
• Background color defines color of empty spaces.
• GIF delay: Defines an time interval between frames of a GIF-file

Current image:

• The size and offset of the current image is shown.
• You can change offset for the current image.