GIF Animator 5

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Summary: Good! but must buy Add-in for transition and filter effects
Review: I am not a pro at all. I just wanted to play around a build my own animated emoticons/smileys.
This product is good, but if you want transition and filering effects (i.e. effects on your animations, instead of just a looping sequence of pictures) you have to buy an Add-in software called "F/X for GIF Animator" by the same firm Unlead.

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Summary: It's better than ever
Review: I got GIF Animator 5 as an upgrade to version 4. Wow, what an improvement, Ulead! I love the fact that you can animate objects within the program and not have to toggle back and forth with my image editor. Plus, the way it links with my image editor is awesome. Thanks, Ulead, for adding true color palettes so I can get my files down to very managable sizes. I am going to put aside Image Ready for now and have a hey day with this one.

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Summary: NEVER MIND the file size....
Review: Over and over again I tried to slice the file size of finished animation - to no avail.
Yes - if you only used a postage stamp size image you might get by with being able to use it on your website with a halfway decent loading time.
We tried to use the gif animator in our gallery on several occasions - guranted, with high quality images of max filesize 12kb each (can't go any lower if anyone is to see any quality at all) and the finished, so called improved file size still was larger than any website page can carry - unless you want to wait for the 30-45 seconds for that single instance to load - no one does, not even at the best websites. So, we have another 'wonderful' program dusting away on our shelves.

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Summary: AWESOME!
Review: This program is outstanding! I've been using it since I was probably 11... so you know it's pretty easy to use. It's easy but it has a great outcome... I make AIM buddy icons with it and they are really awesome. My friends BEG me to make them icons... all thanks to GIF Animator! Buy it now!

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Summary: Great product
Review: Very intuitive product. I got what I needed to get done
quickly. Minimal learning curve, very enjoyable to use.