What are the characteristics of gif animation?

Features, advantages and disadvantages of gif animation

Advantages: GIF widely supports Internet standards. Support lossless compression and transparency. Animation GIF is very popular, and it is easy to make with many GIF animation programs.

Disadvantages: GIF only supports a 256-color palette, so detailed pictures and realistic photographic images will lose color information, but they look tonal. In most cases, the lossless compression effect is not as good as JPEG format or PNG format. GIF supports limited transparency and has no translucent effect or fading effect (such as the effect provided by alpha channel transparency).

Make GIF animation

1. Set the animation size (length, height).

2. Then select the pictures needed for animation, and at the same time, you can set the delay time and frame rate (pay attention to the frame rate preview in the lower left corner of the dialog box, which is very considerate design).

3. After completing the last step, the files in the animation will appear in the lower frame panel. At this point, you can click the Preview tab to preview the animation.

4. A wonderful animation banner is ready. Note that if you save it directly, the generated animation file will be larger, which will affect the spread on the network, so you need to optimize the animation. Select file from the menu-> Optimization Wizard, so as to set the optimization parameters in the optimization wizard (generally, the default is enough). The fewer colors you use, the smaller the file and the worse the effect. Click the "Finish" button, and GifAnimator will optimize the animation file. ......

GIF animation software

GifAnimator is a special animation program, which can easily and conveniently make the animation you need. The latest version 5.0 adds a lot of special effects that can be applied immediately and options to optimize gif animated pictures. The most surprising thing is that common image formats can be imported smoothly and saved as the most popular Flash files. In addition, Gianimator has many classic animation effect filters. As long as a picture is input, Gianimator can automatically apply the animation mode, decompose it into several pictures and make an animation.

ImageReady is a layer-based gif animation, which can automatically divide the elements in the animation and use the images in Photoshop for animation frames. It has a very powerful web page image processing ability, and can create dynamic gif animations, interesting dynamic buttons, and even beautiful web pages. Therefore, Image Ready is fully capable of completing the process from drawing to animation independently, and its close combination with Photoshop can show its advantages.

Fireworks has a strong ability to make vector pictures, and the different settings of animation symbols in different frames cause our visual changes. An image is animated when it is played in a frame. Fireworks can be used as an animation symbol of any created or imported object, and each symbol has its own independent attributes, so you can create different animation forms for different objects, such as moving, fading in and out, and so on. Because the software is more casual and skillful in animation, your animation process can be more free and creative.

The combination of ImageReady and PS is obvious to all. I remember PS official website wrote "World Standard Image Editing Solution". Although a bit domineering, I have to admit that the strong backing of PS really adds a lot of color to ImageReady.

Fireworks requires higher professionalism, and designers' inspiration can be better brought into play, so making gif animation with this software will achieve better results. At the same time, the close combination of Fireworks and MicroMedia's other two web design softwares, DW and Flash, is also a great advantage.

In fact, when Ulead GIFAnimator, fireworks, and Image Ready all developed to this version, it can basically be said that there are no obvious shortcomings, but each has its own characteristics and strengths.

Since 1992, Ulead Company released UleadGifAnimator 1.0, UleadGifAnimator has been one of the most powerful and simple animation software in making gif animation. Using this special animation program, everyone can easily and conveniently make the animation they need. You don't even need to introduce external pictures, you can also use it to do some simple animations, such as the animated message display of the marquee; In addition, if only one picture is input, GifAnimator can be automatically decomposed into multiple pictures to make an animation with special display effect, which can be said to be super functional and worth recommending. The latest version 5.0 adds a lot of special effects that can be applied immediately, and the options for optimizing gif animation pictures and controlling the process are more powerful. The most surprising thing is the new import and export of UleadGifAnimator5.0. The imported pictures are not only a single gif, but also common picture formats can be imported smoothly, and the import of picture files has also increased.

After starting the software, there will be an animation wizard to guide us to make gif animation. The wizard consists of two parts: creating a new column and opening a column. In the new column, there are "Create an image with animation wizard" and "Create a blank animation document", and in the Open column, there are "Open an existing image", "Open an existing video file" and "Open a sample file". (Of course, if you think you don't need to start the wizard next time you open the software, you can choose the "Don't show it next time" option below. In fact, it is quite convenient to animate with a wizard (very considerate for novice users).

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Exquisite pictures are an essential element of a website, especially GIF animation, which can make the original dull website come alive. What you may see most is the constantly rotating "welcome" and advertising banners with different styles. On the Windows platform, there are many tools for making GIF animation, among which ImageReady from Adobe and GIF animation from Woori are famous. On the Linux platform, we can also easily make animated GIF animation. GIMP in Linux is a GIF animation tool, as simple and powerful as GIF animation or ImageReady. It is not only fully qualified for GIF animation production, but also can make full use of GIMP's powerful image processing function to make GIF animation more appealing and attractive.