Customizing How You Work - Ulead GIF ANIMATOR 4.0 User Manual

Customizing how you work

With the Preferences dialog box, GIF Animator lets you customize how you work. For
example, you can define how images are converted from high color formats down to the basic
GIF color palette of 256 colors, append a personalized comment to each animation, and set up
the number of undo levels available while working. The Preferences dialog box can be opened
by clicking the File: Preferences menu command.
Important Preferences options:
•
On the General tab, create a custom color
index for the Global Palette - you can build
this palette based on the first imported
image, or use a pre-defined palette of
'browser-safe' colors. You can also use a
previously saved color palette file. Gener-
ally speaking, the first option (Use the
palette of the first layer image) offers
the most flexibility.
•
Because all palettes, including the Global
Palette and all Local Palettes, can only
contain a maximum of 256 colors, you
should select the Automatically expand
Global Palette option on the General tab
in order to fill the Global Palette with as
many colors as possible from imported
images. This frees up space in each of the
Local Palettes for storing colors specific to
image layers, making the GIF smaller.
• On the Image Layer tab, select the Show
Preview Image dialog box option to
manually build the color palette of each
image layer as it's imported. If you want
GIF Animator to do this automatically,
deselect this option and then set the default
Palette conversion options for each
imported image layer.
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