Gif Animator 5 - An Overview
Getting Started With Gif Animator 5

Software: Ulead Gif Animator 5

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This is an overview of Gif Animator 5 to help you familiarize yourself with the layout, tools and functions.

The first image you'll see upon opening Gif Animator 5 is the Startup Wizard.

You can eliminate the Startup Wizard by checking off the "Do not show this dialogue box next time" box. If you decide you want it back upon opening the program, you can go to File, Preferences and in the General category, check Enable Startup Wizard.

Gif Animator 5 has a Preference settings. As noted above, go to File, Preferences.   You can add third party plugins and change the default settings to suite your needs.

Below is an overview of the layout and tools in Gif Animator 5.

The Standard Toolbar and Tool Panel are similar to that of PhotoImpact.  A great new feature is the Favorite Image Editor which will import  frames into PhotoImpact for editing.

The Object Manager is similar to PhotoImpact's Layer Manager.  You can manage, change the order of and hide objects. You can "arrange" objects by dragging within in the Object Manager. You can also arrange objects by using the Order Tool in the Attribute Toolbar.

Attribute Toolbar is where you can align your objects.  You'll find it similar to PhotoImpact.  By using the Order Tool you can arrange your objects.

The Frame Panel has shortcuts to play your animation, add, duplicate and delete frames, etc. By right clicking on a frame you can change your frame properties (timing, order, duplicate a frame, etc.).

Activate an object on your canvas and right click.  Here you will find more commands.

I hope you've found this tutorial helpful.

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