WebShocker 2.2 review

WebShocker is a comprehensive Web Animation production tool.

License: Demo OS: Mac OS X File size: 4381K Developer: Ryan Stevens Buy Now Price: $49.00 Updated: 29 May 2006

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WebShocker is a comprehensive Web Animation production tool. WebShocker provides a fully integrated and streamlined environment for creating, maintaining and previewing Web Animations.

All in one software! Budding animators and professionals alike can create full fledged animations in minutes!

Here are some key features of "WebShocker":
Place your frames by dragging-and-dropping them to the desired location. You can even drag graphic files from the system and drop them into your animations.
Create, Edit, Transform and Warp images using sophisticated image manipulation and painting and retouch tools.
Import QuickTime Movies, AVI files and MPEG files as an animation. You can edit each frame to your hearts desire.
Import standard graphics files such as Photoshop, PICT, GIF, JPEG, TIFF, TARGA, BMP and others.
Directly read images from scanners and digital cameras to create photographic animations.
The Onion Skin Feature shows a translucent image of other frames underneath the current one. Use the Onion Skin Feature to precisely position images between different frames.
Batch Convert GIF animations, QuickTime Movies and others from one type to another.
An Export Assistant is provided to aid in the animation export procedure. Preview and Visually Inspect the differences between the quality of an animation and its size to determine what is best.
The File Size Reduction feature optimizes file size by removing unused colors and similar areas between images, reducing download time to the minimum.
Create Animations in thousands or millions of colors and let the Recosoft Smart Color technology help you choose the best set of colors when exporting it as a GIF Animation.
Specify GIF settings such as loop count, transparency, background color, frame removal and frame delay.
Load and Apply Color Palettes stored in GIF and PICT files for your animations. Save loaded color palettes for later use.
Create Custom Color Palettes and Brush Shapes to tailor your work environment.
Create animations from 1 - 24 bits deep and as large as 800 x 800 pixels.

What's New:
Fully Compatible with Mac OS X Public Beta (when run under Classic mode)
Fully Mac OS 9 Multiple Users compatible
Incorporation of the RecoSoft Smart Color Technology. This technology allows for accurate remapping of colors when saving animations that contain thousands or millions of colors as GIF animations
Specification of "Color Tolerance" when using the Paint Bucket tool
Specification of 9 different types of Fill modes when using the PaintBucket, Rectangle, Oval, Arc, FreeHand, Polygon, and Rounded Rect tools
Opacity Control for the Fill Color being used
A thoroughly enhanced and improved "Export Assistant" which allowsZooming the preview area and adjusting the Color Accuracy when saving animations that contain thousands/millions of colors as GIF Animations
Automatic extraction of the 256 most used colors when Importing images that contain thousands/millions of colors
Inclusion of the "Extract Animation Colors" command that extracts 256 ofthe most frequently used colors in the animation
Significantly Improved Magic Wand Tolerance feature.