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Introduction

Innovative Gifs Animator.

Babarosa Gif Animator provides the fast and easy way to create compact gif animations for the web. Animations can be quickly assembled from imported images. You can also design  animation directly in the program using vector graphics, image, and text edit tools. Palette optimization, data compression and colors reduction give you a possibility to obtain small size GIFs.

Features:

Build in image editor.

Cool color quantizer ,provides excellent image quality.

Support 13 image formats(BMP,GIF,JPG,MPEG,PCX,PNG,TGA,TIF,AVI,EMF,WMF,PCT,EPS).

Powerful optimization engine,reduce Gif file size.

Support Master Frame .

Transparency color editor.

Multi frames editor.

Drag and drop ,copy and paste ,unlimited Undo/Redo.

Embed image explorer.

View navigator.

Compatible with all color format(8bit 16bit 24bit 32bit),Working in any window display mode.

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Managing  Documents

Saving GIF Animation.

Click menu "File" "Save as gif" to save current document as a gif animation, before doing this you may want to reduce the file size by using the gif optimization.

Saving AVI file

Babarosa can save animations as windows AVI file,Click menu "File" "export" "Avi file" to save current document as Avi file,then windows will prompt you to select a compression method.

Exporting Frames to Individual image(s)

Click menu "file" "export" "Individual image(s)" to excutes this command.

Save the selected frame(s) as a single image, file names are automatically generated based on the frame number and the base name you input.more detail please goto managing  frames.

Importing Images

Importing Images will have the same effect as menu "Draw", "Image".

The shortcut for this command is P.

Printing Documents

Print the all the frames of the current document.

The shortcut for this command is Ctrl+P.

To check how the printout will look like use Print Preview command located in File menu.


Using Drawing Tools

Tip:

All Drawing tools except image use the current color as drawing color,you can click the color select button in the Draw toolbar/link to set current color.

All the Draw command can be found in the menu Draw or toolbar Draw.

Right click to set "select" as current tool.

Ctrl + mouse drag object,you can a clone of this object.

Press Ctrl , you can select mutli objects by click on it.

Select Tool.

Select Tool let you select object(s),such as line,image,ellipse.any object you want to move, resize or delete must first be selected.

There are several methods to select object(s).

Click on a object.

Press Ctrl, then Click on a object.

Press left button,drag ,release left button,you can select all these object in the rectangle you dragged.

Use Select All command in the Menu Edit to select all of the objects in the frame.

The shortcut for this command is S.

Line Tool.

Click Line command to select Line as current tool,left click on the paper to start drawing,right click cancel this operation,Double click complete this operation.

The shortcut for this command is L.

Rectangle Tool.

Click Rectangle command to select Rectangle as current tool.Press left button on the frame paper to start drawing,move your mouse to set the right-bottom point of the rectangle,release left button.

The shortcut for this command is R.

Round Rectangle Tool.

Click Round Rectangle command to select Round Rectangle as current tool.Press left button on the frame paper to start drawing,move your mouse to set the right-bottom point of the round rectangle, release left button.

Round Rectangle has a adjustable handle on the right-top,you can drag this to set the radius.

The shortcut for this command is Y.

Ellipse Tool.

The same as rectangle tool,you can draw a ellipse on the frame with current color you selected.

The shortcut for this command is E.

Polygon Tool.

Click Polygon command to select Polygon as current tool,left click on the paper to start drawing,right click cancel this operation,Double click complete this operation.

The shortcut for this command is P.

Bezier Tool.

Click Bezier command to select Bezier as current tool,left click on the paper to start drawing,right click cancel this operation,Double click complete this operation.

The shortcut for this command is Z.

Arc Tool.

Click Arc command to select Arc as current tool.Press left button on the frame paper to start drawing,move your mouse to set the right-bottom point of the round rectangle, release left button.

The shortcut for this command is Z.

Text Tool

Click Text command to select Text as current tool.Click on the frame paper to draw a text object.

Double click on the Text object to open the Text Properties setting dialog to Change Font Face ,Size.

The shortcut for this command is T.

Image Tool

Click Image command to select Image as current tool.Click on the frame paper, It openes the  File Open dialog , Select the file or files that you wish to insert and hit OK.

You can import images in GIF, BMP ,PNG,AVI or JPEG format(Other format will be supported in the new version).

If you selects more than one images,babarosa will prompt whether to create new frame for each image.

If you selects Gif or AVI file and this file has more than one frame,Babarosa would insert new frame automatically.

shortcut for this command is I


Managing Frames

Tip:

All the Draw command can be found in the menu Frame or toolbar Frame./image

Drag and Drop in the Frames window to adjust frame's index./image

Inserting New Frames

Click New Frame Command to insert new frame at the end of animation,This frame have the same size as the animation document.

shortcut for this command is Ctrl+F

Deleting Frames

Click Delete Frame Command to delete current frame.

shortcut for this command is Ctrl+D

Set Frame Properties

Click Properties Command or double click the frame in the frames window to open Frame Properties Setting dialog.In this dialog,you can set:

Frame name.

Transparency color.

Transparent is used to set a color in the frame as transparent or invisible. To choose a transparent color,You can pick frame's transparency color in the opened transparency color setting dialog by clicking on one of the colors in the color table . Uncheck the  transparent checkbox in the frame Properties dialog or turn off transparency.

Time Delay.

Frame time delay specifies how long the frame should be displayed during animation sequence. Babarosa's default delay is 10(1/100th seconds), Values range from 0-65535.

Display method.

Display method is used to set how the frame image is draw in relation to the other frames when the animation is play.

If you select Max Optimize as optimization method,the display method may be set automatically.

Frame Background.

Master Frames.

Set frame to be or not to be Master Frame.Click here to see get more info about Master frame.

Multi Frames Editor is a dialog allow user to set the properties of one or more frames,include :

Delay time:Add,Sub, multiply, divide or set all of the selected frame(s)'s delay with new value.

Display method: Set all of the selected frame(s) with new display method.

Transparent Color:Set all of the selected frame(s) to or not to use transparency color.

Click Multi Frames Editor command in the Menu Frame to open this dialog.

This operation can not be undo/redo.


Master frame

Master frames are frames that not only take part in the animation sequence, but also the following frames,All objects in the Master frame render to the following normal frames, Thus repeated graphics can be easily reproduced and managed over several frames.

Every frame in the animation can become Master Frame,the Master frame take affect on all of the follow frame(s) until another master frame.

The installed sample "MasterFrame.ban" demostrates the usage of Master Frame.


Animation

Optimize

Optimize can reduce gif file size, the animation will load faster in a web browser than if it was not optimized.

Nooptimize.Do not optimize.

Normal optimize.Will remove any duplicate pixel information and replace it with transparency color, By eliminating this repeated image data, frames can be made smaller and more compressible.

Max optimize:This option produces smallest gif.

Reduce colors.

This can be used to shrink gifs. But, as colors are taken away, the image quality tends to degrade. The goal with color reduction is to find a balance between effective compression and image quality.

Preview

Click Menu Animation ,Preview to open Animation preview dialog.

Properties

Iteration Count:Iteration count specifies how many times the animation should be played. An animation can be played infinite or certain number of times. 0 means infinite.

Changing Size:All frames in the animation have the same size. Change the height and width of the animation in the animation properties dialog. Values range from 1-65535.

Comments:Gif comments are embeded in file date,but are ignored by most applications.do not fill any comment if small file size wanted.


Shortcut key list

Clone Object..............................Ctrl+mouse drag

Multi Select object......................Shift+mouse click

Move Object..............................Up/Down/Left/Right

File

New File....................................Ctrl+N

Open File...................................Ctrl+O

Save..........................................Ctrl+S

Print..........................................Ctrl+P

Edit:

Undo.........................................Ctrl+Z

Redo.........................................Ctrl+Y

Cut............................................Ctrl+X

Copy.........................................Ctrl+C

Paste.........................................Ctrl+V

Delete........................................Del

Select All....................................Ctrl+A

Previous Layer............................+

Next layer...................................-

View

Project Window.........................Ctrl+O

Full Screen.................................(dot)

Zoom In.....................................Page Up

Zoom Out...................................Page Down

Move paper.................................,

Full Frame..................................Home

Draw:

Line..........................................L

Rectangle..................................R

RoundRectangle.........................Y

Ellipse.......................................E

Polygon.....................................P

Bezier.......................................Z

Arc..........................................A

Text.........................................T

Image.......................................I

Frame:

New Frame...............................F

Delete Frame.............................D

Multi Frames Editor...................M

Animation:

Preview....................................V


Registration

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