GRAPHIC DESIGNERS FROM OUR DESIGN COMMUNITY
Print Design Templates Take a look at these creative Graphic Design templates for brochures, flyers, newsletters, stationery, postcards, ads, menus and posters for a variety of businesses.
Invoicing 4 Freelancers A complete, secure, online billing application that maintains hourly service billing, flat fee billing and recurring charges. Integration with Authorize.Net and other leading payment gateways provides hands-free recurring billing with a sophisticated CRM system.
Free Design Magazines Browse through our extensive list of free Graphic Design, Web Design, Business, Computer, and Computer Graphics magazines, white papers, downloads and podcasts to find the titles that best match your skills and interests; topics include management, marketing, operations, sales, and technology. Simply complete the application form and submit it. All are absolutely free to freelance professionals who qualify.
Suggested Links Design Community
Photoshop Tutorials
Graphic Design Resources
Vandelay Design Blog
Design Reviver
Web Design & Graphic Design Blog
Logo Designer's Logos
Web Design Tools List
Layouts & Templates Directory
Graphic Designers
Creative Public
The Print Guide
Creative Track
Digital Dreamer
Logomarket
Desktop Publishing
Blue Sfear
Web Design Templates
Design Directory
Web Designers & Developers
Crafts for Kids
Webmaster Tutorials
Web Designers
Web Design Portfolios
All Work at Home Ideas
How to Draw
Work From Home Job Search
More Graphic Design Links
OTHER SITES WE OWN
AllFreelance
All Freelance Work & Portfolios
Graphic Design Community
Best of Graphic Design
Web Design Tools & Resources
 |
home > Shareware / Freeware / Other Software > ANIMATION SOFTWARE / ANIMATED GIF SHAREWARE
ABCFlashKit Generator (Free to Try, $30 to Buy, Mac) - Create customized Flash intros, special effects and animations, for great web design, in seconds! Simply click here or the button to enter the Wyka-Warzecha ABCFlashKit generator, or if you do not have javascript enabled, click on one of the links below (you will also be able to order from there).
Active GIF Creator 2.14 (Free to Try, $35 to Buy, PC) - With Active GIF Creator you can create exciting, attention-getting animated buttons and banners for your Web site's design and promotion.
 |
 |
 |
||
 |
|
 |
||
Advanced GIF Animator (Free to Try, $35 to Buy, Windows) - Powerful tool for creating animated gif images, banners, buttons, and even movies
Aesop (Free to Try, $50 to Buy, Windows) - is a banner maker tool that allows you easily create animated advertising banners (click to see an examples), buttons, and other graphics for a Website that contains sophisticated studio-quality, special effects, 3D antialiased fonts and image manipulation features.
Animate Me! (Free to Try, $25 to Buy, Windows) - creates gif animations on the base of predefined effects. You can define sequence and parameters of separate effects to get peerless animations quickly and easy.
Antechinus Animator (Free to Try, $20 to Buy, Windows) - Add images, import sounds, create AVI videos.
Antechinus Media Editor (Free to try, $35 to buy - Windows) - Antechinus Media Editor is a superb collection of utilities enabling you to quickly create and manipulate movies and sound files. Produce animated movies in just minutes and incorporate them in your web pages or e-mails, along with MP3 sound files and much more.
Artful Gif Animator (Free to Try, $30 to Buy, Windows) - Create impressive and compact animated GIFs for banners, ads and web buttons on the fly!
AVD Graphic Studio (Free to try, $25 to buy - Windows) -is the powerful editor for graphics, animation and video. The program allows you easily to edit, view and print your images, using painting tools, drawing tools and various effects. You can import multiframes files (AVI and animated GIF) for editing, easily receive separate frames and create your animated GIF and AVI.
Babarosa Gif Animator (Free to try, $29 to buy - Windows) - provides the fast and easy way to create compact gif animations for the web.
BoardMaster Storyboard and Timing Software(Free to Try - Windows) - is designed specifically for the development of storyboards.
FlasherShop (Free to try, $30 to buy - Windows) - is a quick and easy way to create Flash animations with professionally designed templates.
Gifmation (Free to Try, $50 to Buy, Mac) - GIFmation is a highly intuitive and powerful GIF animation application with a very extensive feature set providing the ability to easily create sophisticated and highly optimized GIF animations for your web pages.
Gypsee
PRO (Free to try, $20 to buy - Windows)
- is the most complete animator software package which
enables you to quickly and easily create screen savers,
animated greeting card, flash and animated musical GIF
from your image and sound files - without any programming
skill.
Internet
Character Animator (Free to try, $180 to
buy - Windows) - offers visual support for the creation
of professional quality 3D animations. Animated characters
can be placed into ISA scenes to add a range of new
interactivities and animations - an essential element
in the development of interactive clips for the Web!
Jasc® Animation Shop™ 3 ($40 to buy - Windows) - The Complete Solution for GIF Animation on the Web
Liatro SWF Decoder (Free to Try, $39 to Buy, Windows) - lets you extract usable resources from Flash SWF movie,including actionscript, buttons, shapes, images, sprites, texts, fonts, frames and sounds.
Mediator 8 (Free to Try, $399 to Buy, Windows) --Mediator 8 is quite simply the easiest way to create multimedia interactive Flash®, HTML or CD-ROM Presentations. Combine text, images, video and sound, for the ultimate multimedia experience. No programming required!
Meshbox 1.0 (Free to Try, $150 to Buy, Windows) - is a new application for 3D artists, animators, multimedia developers, media production houses and everyone else who wants to collect, manage and convert 3D objects.
MotionGIF 3.0 (Free to Try, $20 to Buy, Windows) - An all-in-one and fast Web animation creator!
Paraben Gif Animator (Free to Try, $40 to Buy, Windows) - Make your own animated GIFs. Create them from scratch or from other images
Pixopedia 24 (Free to Try, $35 to Buy, Windows) is a new approach to image editing and painting, animation and video editing. You can perform almost any action through brush movement.
PNG/MNG Construction Set (Free to Try, $25 to Buy, Windows) - Dangle from the leading edge of web page animation – try the next generation of animation packages. Create breathtaking animations without the limitations of GIF.
RainEditor (Free to Try, $30 to Buy, Windows) - is a Flash producer that helps you to make flash movies with particle system fast and conveniently, and optimized swf files will be exported ultimately.
ScreenFlash (Free to Try, $79.95 to Buy, Windows) - If you want to build animated, interactive software tutorials in the shortest time, ScreenFlash is your best choice! It is the easiest and most effective tool for demonstrating your software product, adding animations to your application's Help system, or training novices.
swfXXL (Free to Try, $90 to Buy, Windows) - will turn any Flash™ (swf) file into a fullscreen sized application that will run without any loss of speed!
Ulead GIF Animator 5 (Free to Try, $25 to Buy, Windows) - The No. 1 GIF animation tool for Web
Ulead GIF-X.Plugin (Free to Try, $40 to Buy, Windows) - 22 instant animated high-end light and motion effects
UnFREEz (Freeware - Windows) - is a high-speed Windows application that will take any number of images, saved as separate GIF files, and create a single animated GIF from those images.
Zoner GIF Animator 5 (Free to Try, $29 to Buy, Windows) - is the best tool for creating images in the animated GIF format.
RECENT ARTICLES from Graphic Design BloG
Graphic Design, Book Covers, and You - Part II
Reading a Book by Its Cover
The chance to produce art for a book cover is rare, bug the essential thought processes and creative steps are very similar, if not identical, in the inventive process. In this series we actually try to read a book by its cover--to see if the design concept is successful or [...]
|
|
|
|
 |
|
Graphic Design, Book Covers, and You - Part I
Inspiration from the Covers of Books
In the next few posts, we'll look at some book covers and learn a few things about design. We'll find that design sometimes has to follow form. And in these examples, they follow the form of the content.
The creative processes used to design a book cover are relatively the same [...]
Freelancing 101: The Typical Life
Freelancing 101: The typical life.
Plus tips and advise from a professional.
By Elle Phillips
According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, about twenty-five percent of all Graphic Designers (or Graphic Artists) do freelance work, full-time or part-time. Many more have aspirations of doing freelance because of the money, creativity, and the appeal of working from home. [...]
When Design Becomes Literal
As a graphic artist, you face the challenge of creating designs that are unique, and interesting. Some designers, as you will see, have taken the idea of design to a very literal form.
The following examples are fun to look at and admire, but also serve as inspiration to think "inside the box" by approaching design [...]
Logos: What Makes a Good Design? - Part III
And Now the Good Stuff
In our last few articles about logo design we've seen some logos that didn't quite work because of design flaws, problems with concept or lack of visual appeal.
This time we'll look at some of the most famous logos in the world, and some that aren't so famous to see why they [...]
Logos: What Makes a Good Design? - Part II
The Logo Journey Continues
In our last article, we examined several logo designs that were, by most conventional standards, unsuccessful. Your art education is a continuing process and understanding the basics of graphic design can help you to be more effective in creativity and to avoid mistakes.
In Part 2 of this series, we'll take a look [...]
Logos: What Makes a Good Design? - Part I
Logo Design Isn't Always Easy
Designing a logo can sometimes be mystifying, but that doesn't mean it can't be done. At times a logo design just works, even though it may seem rather unremarkable. Other designs should work but they don't.
When Things Go Terribly Wrong
The examples in this article demonstrate what can happen when attention to [...]
All Graphic Design Resources is a Directory Full of Tools for Graphic Designers
All Graphic Design Portal is a Graphic Design education directory with resources & articles for Graphic Designers & Web Designers including a Design forum, blog, graphics software tips, graphic design jobs, advice for new designers about design schools and education as well as tips for freelance graphic design business owners, and much more.
