IconCool GIF Animator is a professional and easy-to-use GIF animation software tool.

IconCool GIF Animator can create animated GIF banners, buttons and any other pictures for your web sites easily.

IconCool GIF Animator can easily export animation in animated GIF, FLI, AVI, MPEG, FLC as well as SWF formats.

Animation Functions
￭ An easy-to-use frame editor lets you can create, play, delete and modify GIF frames and so on.
￭ Support 25 kinds of video processing effects.

Editing Functions
￭ Multi-layer technology like Adobe� Photoshop.
￭ Convenient marching line tools.
￭ Offer plug-in for exchanging image layers with Adobe� PhotoShop quickly.
￭ Support for editing several GIF projects at the same time.
￭ Easy-to-use drawing tools and powerful gradient functions.
￭ Support for editing 32-bit images.

Filters and Effects
￭ Supports various gradient effects and 18 image filters (Motion Blur, Median, Sharpen, and so on).
￭ Supports 25 kinds of animation effects, such as entrance effects, pull down effects, shutter effects, mosaic effect, interlaced effects and flip effects.

Supported Graphic, animation and video Formats
￭ Open and save 30 graphic formats, including animated GIF, PSD and PNG, as well as general animation formats, such as AVI, MPEG, MPG, SWF, FLC and FLI.

Samples and Gallery
￭ Offer plenty of samples, such as 100 banners and an useful gallery with 200 clip pictures.

Optimization functions
￭ Powerful GIF optimization functions with many optional parameters, such as Merge, Crop, Palette and Dithering.
￭ Fast optimization for JPEG and PNG files.

Html Map Creator
￭ Html Map Creator allows you to transform the editing image to a Html map file with Javascript quickly.

Local search functions
￭ Offer local search and internet search for picture and animation files.

Limitations:

· 30 days trial

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Powerful function for operating marquee
· IconCool Studio 5 has added Rectangular Marquee Tool, Ellipse Marquee Tool and Polygonal Lasso Marquee Tool. These functions are similar to Adobe PhotoShop without limiting the limitation of the Rectangular Marquee for operating selection in the icon editing software. You can use them to make some powerful and convenient operations, such as move, fill, filter, etc.
· Convenient tool for making lighting effect
· IconCool Studio 5 has a special lighting effect tool in the drawing tools that enables you to add lighting effect for images easily.
· Make different states of icons quickly
· IconCool Studio 5 has a function for creating 3 different states automatically for current icon which is being edited. The software will create Lighter(active), Current Pick(valid) and Gray Scale(invalid). Use this to make a suit of software toolbar buttons with ease.
· Visible filter operation
· IconCool Studio 5 provides you with about 10 filter effects. You can open the preview panel and view the effect after adjusting the preferences by using filters as in Adobe Photoshop.
· Convenient operation, exquisite interface
· IconCool Studio 5 is easy to use with a friendly interface. We understand that designers are accustomed to using design software such as PhotoShop, Flash, and Fireworks. We developed the interface and operating methods of IconCool Studio 5 with your comfort in mind.