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Web Animations Made Easy

Updated February 14, 1997

Make your Web sites come alive with motion! Microsoft® GIF Animator is the fast and easy way to create and customize animations for your Web sites. No code is required to make your Web sites more eye-catching. And... it's free.

Better yet, GIF Animator is designed to work in tandem with Microsoft® Image Composer to produce the animations you want. Simply drag and drop your images from Microsoft Image Composer into Microsoft GIF Animator and you can create an animation in minutes.

Microsoft GIF Animator creates animations based on the GIF89a file format, which stores timing information to create the illusion of animation like a cartoon flipbook. An easy-to-use program, Microsoft GIF Animator allows you to:

Drag images directly from Microsoft Image Composer. Arrange, customize, and create images in Microsoft Image Composer and simply drag them into Microsoft GIF Animator. The Guided Tour below shows you how easy this is to do. Use the more than more than 500 tools and effects in Microsoft Image Composer™ to get the look you want. You can also drag images into GIF Animator from other image editing applications.
Customize your animations the way you want. Microsoft GIF Animator has three easy-to-use property sheets that allow you to control all aspects of your animations. Make your animations loop, spin and fade in and out; set the size and transparency of your images; and control a wide range of other options all with a simple click of the mouse.
Quickly make your animations Web-ready. Microsoft GIF Animator makes it easy for you to prepare your animations for the Web by automatically assigning an 8-bit color palette to each of your images. This saves you the time and work of loading your own palette. You can also load your own custom palettes for each image.

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