So you want to create stunning animated GIF files for use in forums and elsewhere on the Internet, but you have no clue where to start? Before you bury yourself under a stack of programming books, consider Flex GIF Animator, the easy way to create and edit banners, buttons, backgrounds and other GIF animations!

Flex GIF Animator boasts a powerful brush engine that lets you use 6 different natural media tools such as crayon, charcoal, oil paint, and pencil. You can even use Photoshop brushes that you can download from the internet! Plus, an extensive array of tools are at your command with Flex GIF Animator -- clone, retouch, and effects like dodge, light, blur, saturation controls, and so much more!

When it comes to the actual animating in Flex GIF Animator, you have control over animation effects like zoom, fade, and particle effects! You can even make warp and morph effects, right in Flex GIF Animator. Full support for vector graphics means fun, fun, fun with text, shapes, curves, and gradients!

But where do you get your source material to create your Flex GIF Animator masterpiece? That's easy -- just import photos, movie frames, or capture images from movies in the DV, MPG, AVI, MOV, and FLV formats. And if you really want to get crazy with your animations, just export them to SWF Flash, Quicktime, or AVI format for the ultimate portability!

Flex GIF Animator lets you:

1.Easily create and edit animated banners, buttons, and backgrounds!
2.Use your own imported images, or capture still images from video.
3.Export your animations as Flash, Quicktime or AVI.
4.Use Photoshop brushes or any of six included brush styles.
5.Apply special effects to your animations.
6.Create stunning warp and morph effects.

Requirements: 1024 X768 screen resolution

What's new in this version: digital pen support