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I really wanted to love this, the price is great, it's tremendously faster to create GIFs than Photoshop, but without the ability to delay wherever you want and the other issues, I just can't use this for many GIFs. Regrettably, I'm still going to stil use Photoshop CS.x for most GIFs until this matures. Also, unlike Photoshop, no preview of image file size until you semi-render it.

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On the plus side, it's VERY fast, the grid option is very helpful for placing the crop area, the live resizing is fantastic, nice and quick palindrome (but not enough options for easing, etc.) the quality is great too with all the best choice for palates, but unlike Photoshop, there's no instant preview of the quality changes, so that's a bummer. There's no way to remove or change speed on the individual frames AFAIK like you can with Photoshop. That's a deal breaker.Īlso, it should follow QuickTime's lead and allow you to nudge back and forth with the arrow keys without a modifier. I need to be able to delay the gif anywhere I want to. It has the ability to add a custom delay to the end of the gif, that's not enough control. Be such a simple way to preview before doing the initial render. Seem to have no ability to preview a loop between a start and end point like you can do with QuickTime with 'play selection only option' and command-L. that was confusing, but in all fairness Photoshop is basically the same in that regard. Gif properties was greyed out until I committed to a crop. Also, there's no apparently way to ease in and ease out during sections either. It looks to me the only one you can pause is the last frame. I'm still trying to figure out if it's possible to pause frames, but can't see the option which is a deal breaker for me. It drives me nuts because while trying to grab other elements like overlays and captions I keep moving the crop area instead. If you move the crop area by accident, you can't undo it. Isn't ready for prime-time for 'serious' GIF makers. As the cartoon said: There ought to be a law! Not to do so, is a sign of ignorance on the part of the developer.Īnyway I hope I like this product.

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Videos to sell the software, supplemented by videos to teach me -by showing me- how to use it.

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As far as I am concerned, all software ought to have video demonstrations and documentation associated with the product. On the other hand, if a developer shows me nothing, makes no promotional video to illustrate the features and benefits of their software, they had two chances of convincing me to spend money on them: slim and none.

For me, if a developer is smart enough to take the time to do a good job of showing me how to use their product, then I will give them the benefit of the doubt and try out their product. Whatever!īut, when I visit the developer's site for this software, I see excellent, well-illustrated tutorials at least showing me what the application does. The Apple Store does not allow this, which is one of its biggest flaws, since it exists only as a master catalog where it stores, downloads, and collect money off the top of programs developed by people who would rather give 30% of their revenue than market their stuff on their own. While I would always prefer to have a chance to try out software, even in a slightly crippled, time-limited, production-run limited, or feature-busted format, so that I can see what it does. At the same time, however, I was wondering what neat utility might exist to allow me to create a GIF of that video. I not only created a logo for my website project, but, with the aid of SnapZ Pro, I video captured the animation and saved it as a QuickTime movie. Now only is that both cool and mind-boggling, but if you grab the handles of the object box which contains the circular text you just created, you can watch the text spin around and settle wherever you stop dragging the handle. It was only last night-or should I say about 2 AM, since I'm on steroids that give me insomnia, along with a boost of energy that keeps me up for 2-3 days at a shot, before I crash-I upgraded to version 3 of The Print Shop, and I played around with their Circular Text tool that allows you to spin text into a circle or a spiral.

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