Description:
If you'd like to learn how create a wide variety of GIF animations, check out this book. The author covers lots of ground, starting off by teaching you how to prepare your images for animation with Jasc's Paint Shop Pro, Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe PhotoDeluxe. The heart of the book, which covers GIF animations, focuses on using GIF Construction Set, a Windows program, and GifBuilder, a Macintosh program. The author touches on several other animation tools and teaches you how to test and optimize your animations for the Web. Next you learn how to create GIF animations using 3-D graphics that you build in Pixel 3D and morphed images that you build in HiJaak Morph and Kai's Power Goo. Finally, you get an introduction to Java animation tools, digital video, server-push technology, and third-party plug-ins such as Macromedia Flash and Shockwave. The book includes a glossary on image-editing and Internet terms. The companion CD-ROM offers GIF animation tools, 3-D-rendering tools, a media manager, Paint Shop Pro, a demonstration version of Kai's Power Tools 3.0, and Java applications.
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