Working with GIF Animations

MagicViewer lets you work with single images and animations seamlessly in the same work area. The Animation pane automatically appears on the left of the main window when an animation is opened or created. This pane contains the animation toolbar that lets you play, stop, step to the previous or next frame, and edit frame properties. It also displays a thumbnail of each frame in the animation, where you can drag and drop one or more frames to re-order them.

Creating an Animation

You can create an animation by importing a digital camera multiburst captured image, a group of existing image files, by inserting new frames, or by duplicating the opened image. Once loaded in MagicViewer, you can playback the animation, or modify the frame properties.

Optimizing the Animation

MagicViewer lets you optimize the animation to reduce file size for fast Web download using either the Frame differencing or Minimum bounding rectangle method. You can also choose to use a single global color palette to further reduce the file size. The Expand command lets you restore the full content of each frame if you need to make changes after applying the optimization.

Transparency & Color Depth

You can use the Magic Wand or Rectangular selection tools to highlight areas in the image, then crop or delete the selection to create transparent background. MagicViewer automatically finds an unused color in the palette to use as the transparency index, and calculates the lowest color bit depth required when saving GIF files. So you always get the smallest file size and the best results.