AGA is an easy-to use utility for creation and editing animated images in GIF format.
It supports importing images as frames for your animated GIF from the following graphic file formats:
Additionally, AGA can import movie files in AVI format (.avi) as a sequence of frames or paste the images contained in the Windows clipboard.
AGA also allows exporting your animated GIF files as AVI movies or saving their frames as graphic files in the following formats:
Besides simple creation of animated images by adding frames from different source files, pasting from the clipboard or importing them from movie files, you can perform with AGA many other advanced operations, including:
editing existing animated images by adding, duplicating and deleting frames, changing their sequence using intuitive drag-and-drop technique
changing individual frame settings, such as vertical and horizontal position of the image in the frame, frame transformation delay time, adding or removing background transparency
applying individual frame settings to all the frames in the animated image
replacing color channels of each individual frame by editing its color palette
easily setting the number of animation loops of the GIF
visually checking of the prepared animated image on four different backgrounds: white, red, blue and black.
changing the color of working environment
in case of different sizes of frames inserted, choosing between automatically rescaling either the size of the new frame to fit the working file size or vise versa
optimizing animated GIF images by significantly reducing their size
allowing to choose up to five color reduction methods, including:
Nearest Color
Floyd Steinberg
Stucki
Grey Scale
Netscape palette
All these features make AGA a perfect and affordable tool for a web and graphic designer.