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This is yet another great little program, made
especially for those of you who want to create your own animated gifs or
flash files for your website or email. At first, when I opened this program, my feeling was it might not be very user friendly to non-graphic types like me. But, I was SO wrong. I took one hour out of my busy schedule to run the tutorials that come with the program and within that hour, I was having so much fun, I forgot I was working. The tutorial walked me through animating text and pictures, with no headaches or temper tantrums. This is a list of some of the things this sweet little program can do: * Complete animations in no time with click-and-drag tweening. * Create realistic movement using the tweening wizard * Add flair to your animation using build-in text effects * Enhance the appearance of your site with masks and rollovers * Apply sophisticated gradients, patterns and filter effects for more visually appealing graphics * Make data driven charts and graphs (importing data from MicrosoftR ExcelR) * Create, import and export SVG files without any hand-coding * Preview and save your files in Flash, SVG Tiny, SVG Basic and full SVG * Import PhotoshopR (while retaining layers) and IllustratorR, 3D Studio MaxR, LightWave3DR, DXF, or any bitmap format such as GIF, JIPEG, TIFF, TARGA, etc. * Export to a wide variety of animated web formats including Flash, SVG and animated GIF * e-Picture Pro is the perfect complement to Microsoft FrontPageR, MacromediaR, Dreamweaver and AdobeR GoLiveR * Windows System Requirements: Windows 2000 or XP, 64 MB of RAM (minimum supported, 128 or higher recommended), 20 MB of available hard-disk space, 800 x 600 minimum screen resolution, 256-colors minimum As you can see, it's not only a great program for newbie graphics people, but it's also an excellent tool for the advanced graphic and web designers who want a program that does it all, when it comes to text and graphics animation. Now, I'm no artist, but I made the animated gif at the top of this online article, with little effort. Those of you who have artistic talents will do MUCH better, I'm sure: You can learn more about it here. http://snipurl.com/3eia And, once you go to Beatware's page, you can click on the download link on the left to download a free trial copy. I recommend you check it out. I think you will love it as much as I do. Linda Johnson is a college instructor of all of the Microsoft Office Programs, as well as Adobe PhotoShop and Windows. She also teaches online distance learning classes in Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Publisher, and Word at Eclectic Academy. She has worked helpdesk and teaches and lectures at many local businesses and tech schools in her area. Support this newsletter by checking out Linda's eBooks, MS Word MAGIC!, Book I: Fonts, Fun & Formats and Book II: Table Wizardry, How To Get Started As a Software Trainer, and her newest series of MSOffice eBook Tutorials and CD |
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