AniTuner

AniTuner is a lightweight Windows application built specifically for helping you create, edit, and convert animated cursors.

It sports a clean layout that offers quick access to several dedicated parameters which help you open an existing animation file, create a new animated cursor, or browse for animated cursors. The tool works with the following file formats: ANI, AVI, GIF, ATD, and BMP.

The program gives you the possibility to provide information about the animated cursor, such as title and author, change the format, resize the cursor, insert a hotspot, as well as test the cursor.

What’s more, you can add, edit, and remove frames, import images (e.g. BMP, JPG, PNG, GIF, ICO, CUR, ANI), merge the current cursor with another one, arrange the frame order by moving items up or down, set the length of the frames, as well as rotate or flip items.

When it comes to photo editing operations, you are allowed to crop the images, pick the background color or set the background as transparent, as well as zoom in or out.

AniTuner enables you to export the edited animated cursor or convert one to GIF, SWF, AVI, BMP, or ATD file format, use the same timing for all frames or keep each frame with its own timing, and specify an external program to be set as your image editor.

During our testing we have noticed that AniTuner carries out a task quickly but without errors. It doesn’t eat up a lot of CPU and memory, so the overall performance of the computer is not affected.

To sum things up, AniTuner offers a handy set of parameters for helping you design, edit, and convert animated cursors but the layout is not quite intuitive, so rookies may spend some time trying to configure the dedicated parameters.