Zoner GIF Animator 5 software is great for making animated GIFs. New features, such as "trick banners" with simulated Windows controls, can help you achieve higher click-through rates.

In addition to the ability to create trick banners, the latest version, version 5, comes packed with several critically acclaimed features which include adding vector graphics like clip art in the WMF and EMF formats, "rendering" animations' original frame state, a texture generator, support for Adobe Plug-Ins, and a transformation tool. Users can easily rotate, resize and trim bitmaps, while also setting frames with solid (alpha) transparency between 0-99%.
Further, Zoner GIF Animator 5 comes laden with a host of other unique features such as advanced support for text frames along with several editing functions, tweening and blending between frames, and frame drag-and-drop support. Users can choose to lock their defined animation borders, rotate, and flip frame components, create empty bitmap frames, and export individual frames to bitmaps. The software also comes with a built-in distortion feature and enables users to print their frames.
Users can import a range of bitmap files such as GIF, JPG, PCD, MAC, PNG, TIF, TGA, BMP, DIB, RLE, ICO, WPG, BMI, and PCX. The animation import feature supports FLI, FLIC, and AVI, while optimization commands allow users to minimize animations' file sizes. Additional optimization commands include dithering frames, trimming frames, removing comment blocks, removing titles, and removing special features, etc.
Overall, Zoner GIF Animator 5 is packed with a great set of features and its ability to create "trick banners" is a unique offering, that is hard to find in other similar software, making it a must-try for designers, animators and anyone looking to create effective animations.
Version 5: trick-banners tool, vector-graphics frames, function for restoring animations' original frame states, support for Adobe plug-ins