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Do you ever need to do any of the following:

• Put still images together into an animation
• Create exciting, dynamic animations from scratch
• Add sound to your animations
• Convert your files from one audio/animation/video/image format to another
• Change size, color resolution, and format of many images in one go
• Capture anything you see on screen
• Extract images, cursors and icons from programs and dll's
• Optimize your images and animations for the web
• Extract individual frames from your animations
• Create musical slide shows
• Capture from TWAIN-compatible devices such as scanners and digital cameras , retouch them to make them perfect and animate them
• Create web roll-over buttons , web image maps , backgrounds and other elements
• Edit your images, and make them more interesting with special effects
• Create roll-over images for the web
• View full screen your images in many different formats in multiple folders
• Create animations on-the-fly

Normally you would have to spend lots of money on a number of programs that would allow you to do all you need, and spend weeks going through documentation and help files to get to terms with different and often difficult-to-learn user interfaces . You do not have to - that's why Animator was made

You probably had countless occasions when you needed an animation or a good-looking image: they improve the look of your documents, web pages, applications and presentations, and help you to make your point and do it in a more interesting and convincing way.

Perhaps you thought that creating animations is something only graphics artists can do well, that it requires lots of skill and talent, or plenty of time to master. The fact is, creating animations is FUN, and you can do it yourself in no time .

What is the best way to create animations? One way is to purchase a package from one of the top guns, pay $800 or more, then spend the next three to four weeks studying the manual . This approach is good, if you are a professional artist and you make your living through creating animations for other companies. Everybody else can find better value for their money and better use of their time .

Another problem is complexity . When all you wish to do is create an interesting, fast-moving animations, the last thing you want is to wrestle with the time-line, events and complex behaviors.

You will appreciate the ease of use from the moment you fire up your Animator - creating animations cannot be any simpler :

1. Import the images
2. Add sound (animated gif has no sound support, avi and mpeg have), and
3. Create animations and videos .

Of course, you control frame and repetition rates, color depth, compression, and all the other aspects of generating animations/videos:

• Add more images to the animation, or edit or delete the existing ones
• Sort the selected frames
• Reverse the order of selected frames
• Add your logo automatically to all the frames
• Easily edit individual frames
• Insert entire animations in-between frames

What you see on the screen can be "captured" as an image. Why would you want to capture anything? There are three powerful reasons:

• Your documents will be much more appealing if you illustrate what you are talking about , and
• Original documents may come in HTML, DOC, PDF or any number of other formats, so just using parts of them is very difficult. You need images for your illustrations .
• Capturing is an excellent way to create animations .

• 3D effects : punch, ripple, bending, cylindrical, spherize
• Artistic effects : impressionist and oilify
• Distortions : freehand wave, wind, polar, zoom wave, radial wave, swirl, wave, shear
• Many, many many more...

The fun part is, you can apply a special effect to an image, and then turn it into an animation. This amazing feature is so easy to do and the results are great-looking animations. All you have to do is:

• Select the effect , select options, make sure you are happy with the preview, and
• Specify how smooth the animation should be.

Two valuable bonuses that are yours to keep - no matter what you decide: