Just Banners

Just Banners is a feature-rich and accessible program that comes in handy for everyone who wants to create amazing banners with animated pictures to bring a bit of personality to your website or other similar tools that use such elements in their composition.

The provided interface is quite cluttered yet easy-to-learn, bringing from the start several unnecessary panels that can be easily closed if not needed. An item tree structures all the added elements in distinct categories, while the working area is large, leaving space to work with multiple components. There are also two tabs, one is the editor, while in the second, you can play the animation.

By default, the banner is set to a standard small dimension, but can be resized, by dragging the corners the proper size. A few samples are offered and can be opened from the computer. On the right part of the window, a set of predefined system icons, like arrows, files, save, printer or folders can be added to the banner, and altered using the editor.

From there you can adjust several filters, such as contrast, brightness, color balance or equalization, and change the background tone and color palette. You have the option to insert images from the PC, and edit them in the same way as icons. The supported formats are JPG, BMP, PCX, ICO, PNG and CUR.

The utility lets you insert text and customize its appearance with unique fonts, styles, sizes, colors, and borders. The shape category comes only with rectangle and dog ears (round corners) that can be personalized with tints, shadows, and outlines. It's possible to have as many frames as necessary to get the animation you desire, every one containing particular forms and images. The result can be saved as a picture (JPG, BMP, TIF, PNG) or as a banner.

The bottom line is that Just Banners is a reliable and intuitive application designed to offer a professional and easy method to create unique animated banners with images, icons, shapes, and text for webpages help guides, presentations or personal documents to explain the details better.