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294 ULEAD PHOTOIMPACT USER GUIDE
GIF Animator
Ulead PhotoImpact includes the multiple award-winning, feature-packed GIF
Animator, opening up endless possibilities for your Web page.
Create everything from basic animations to the most complex multiple-object
animations. Add awesome text and transition effects, tweak transparency levels,
animate buttons, banners, logos, and more.
Discover the undisputed superiority of GIF Animator's optimization and
compression techniques, and export your animations to a wide range of file
formats, including Flash, AVI, MPEG and Quicktime.
Fast and powerful, GIF Animator is all you need to create sophisticated animations
with total precision, speed and flexibility.
For a detailed user guide on GIF Animator, refer to GA-5 MANUAL.PDF on the
included PhotoImpact CD. For further information and tutorials, visit Ulead's Web
site at http://www.ulead.com.
To prepare images for animation:
Before switching to Ulead GIF Animator to create your animated GIF, follow these
steps to streamline the process.
• Resize all your images to a similar size.
• GIF images are limited to a 256 color palette (either optimized or standard).
Convert all your images to a single palette:
1. Open all the images to be included in the animation.
2. Select Window: Batch Manager.
3. In the Batch Manager dialog box, select all the images for the animation and
select Adjust from the Category menu.
4. From the Operation menu, click Convert Data Type to Indexed 256 color,
Convert Data Type to Web Optimized (standard) or Convert Data Type to
Optimized Indexed 256 color (optimized).
5. Click OK to convert the selected images to 256 color mode.
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