Active GIF Creator 3.8   ---------Quick Tour
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Step 2. Collection of separate images (frames) in single file Step 4. Building of animation

Step 3. Frame operations.
  • Crop the rectangle part of image. Select menu item Image / Operations / Crop or click the toolbar button of Standard Toolbar. Also you can use rectangle part of the image selected by drawing tool Marquee in Image Editor;
  • Duplication. Select wanted image and use menu item Image / Operations / Duplicate or click the toolbar button of Standard Toolbar. For movement of the copy of selected fragment inside image you can use mouse with pressed CTRL key;
  • Merge two and more images checked by flags in the List of images. Select menu item Image / Operations / Merge or click the toolbar button of Standard Toolbar. At that the palette of merged frame can be converted to some new 256- colored palette;
  • Change image size. You can change size of any frame and set resize method: Crop, Stretch, Stretch + smooth. For that select menu item Image / Operations / Size or click the button on the tab Image of Attribute Toolbar. Also you can change image size by mouse dragging of the marker on tab Edit of image area. Marker is located in the right bottom corner of the image. If you drag with pressed key Ctrl then image will be stretched. If you drag with pressed key Shift then image will be stretched and smoothed (note: in common case smoothing creates 256-colors local palette because it demands new transitional colors);
  • Rotation on 90 degrees and flip. These operations you can do with the image or it's rectangular part using menu items Image / Operations / Rotate (Flip);
  • Effects. Select menu item Image / Operations / Effects or click the toolbar button of Standard Toolbar. You can change effect parameters and see how they change the image or it's rectangular part, also you can apply several effects to them sequentially;
  • Particles. To put particles on your image or it's part select menu item Image / Operations / Particles. Also you can use particles as brush shapes in Image Editor;
  • Transition. Select necessary image which will be gradually substituted by the following image in the list and use menu item Image / Operations / Transition. You can set number of transitional frames and single delay for all transitional frames simultaneously.
    Composition of images. List of images has checkboxes to display images from different frames simultaneuosly on tab Compose. If demanded you can set transparent background for overlaid image. For that click button on tab Image of Attribute Toolbar. Each image has individual offset. You can define offset of separate image on tab Image of Attribute Toolbar or by image dragging by mouse on tab Compose.

    Image collections. Select menu item Tools / Image Collections and wanted collection (file with the bitmap strip). You can insert any images from this collection into edited frames.

Step 2. Collection of separate images (frames) in single file Step 4. Building of animation
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