GIF Animator

GIF Animator is a feature-rich and intuitive application that comes in handy especially for those who want to create beautiful and interactive GIFs for their websites. It features image, text and slideshow GIFs. It can handle any type of animation and provides high compression and good quality for your animated files.

The supported image formats are JPEG, BMP, ICO, PNG and GIF. The program is wrapped in an accessible and user-friendly layout divided into a frame viewer on the left side of the window, the GIF editor, the complex color palette and basic drawing tools on the right.

When started the app loads a predefined GIF that can be easily replaced with the one you want to create. To do so, make a new item, choose the background color index and the looping number and hit enter. After that from the menu, you can insert new frames or images from the computer. Make sure the picture size is not to large, as their quality is lowered and they are hard to fit to the window.

New frames require a title, image offset ( X, Y axis), width and height parameters and the delay time. The program automatically detects all the photo colors and their combinations, which are shown at the bottom of the panel, and from where you can change them to different tones. You have the option to view your GIF in the preview tab and correct eventual issues.

The tool lets you rotate pictures to 90, 180 and 270 degrees, mirror horizontal and vertical and resize them to the desired dimension, as well as duplicate and merge them, and in case, a file is to big you can crop it to a smaller length. For the text GIF, you have to type in text, choose the font types, styles, colors and sizes, followed by the angle, alpha, blur and noise values for both the start and end of the animation.

Regarding the slideshow, all you need to do is select at least two files, and you're done. Unfortunately, there is no option to change the transition effect. The drawing pane offers you a few basic tools, such as selection (marqee, lasso), pen, brush with different sizes, lines and geometric shapes, along with fill and spray elements, text and move option. Other features worth mentioning are copy, cut and paste photos, undo and redo buttons to fix mistakes, and image export to BMP format.

GIF Animator is a handy and fun software utility designed to offer an easy method to create simple, text or slideshow GIFs using your favorite pictures and painting tools so that you can embed the into various websites.