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Create a 3D Rollover Button
Make a 3D button in PhotoImpact 4.2.

Animated Star Background
Create a animated twinkling star background for a Web page with PI 4.2.

Fun With Gradients
Learn to use gradients to make various 3D web navigation bars.

Animated Candle
A beginners tutorial for creating a candle image and animating it. Includes a zip file of objects you will need to get started.

Animated Eyes
Animating eyes in GIF Animator.

Animated Name
Create an animated signature of your name drawn with a feather pen. Complete with a selection of feathers and inkwells to download.

Animated Snowglobe using GA5
"Snowglobes hold a certain fascination for people of all ages. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to create a beautiful 3D snowglobe and animate it. This tutorial does not include making the base since the purpose is to learn to make and animate the globe." Intermediate level for PhotoImpact 8

Animation
Create a basic gif animation with Ulead's Gif Animator 4.

Barber's Pole (Animated)
Create a barber's pole animation. Advanced level for PhotoImpact 8.

Reflet Rose Bookmark Tutorial
Create a rose reflected in water animation using PhotoImpact, Gif Animator and Reflet.

Buttons With Cutout Text
Create a basic button with cutout text and then explore several variations. Version 6.

Clapperboard (Animated)
Use the Path Drawing Tool, Path Edit Tool, Line & Arrow Tool, Transform Tools, Text Tool, and Gif Animator 5. to create an animated clapperboard. Intermediate level for PhotoImpact 8

Curtained Plaque or Window Animation
In the words of the author: This tutorial started out as a curtained award/commemorative plaque - but can easily be adapted for windows with drapes. I've put an example of both on the tut. Suitable for animation beginners. The preset zip file for the curtains is also included. For PhotoImpact 6.

Easy 3D Beveled Button
Designed especially for beginners, learn how to make a 3D Beveled button. This is a fun exercise that will teach you how to use the gradient fill feature to create a 3D effect.

Easy Interface
Create your own Web interface with these step-by-step illustrated instructions.

Getting Started With Gif Animator 5
This is an overview of Gif Animator 5 to help you familiarize yourself with the layout, tools and functions.

Gif Animator 5 - Quick Tips
A baker's dozen quick of tips for GIF Animator 5.

Import Animation In A Banner
This tutorial is aimed for the beginner. It will teach you how to create an animated banner in GIF Animator 5 and also how to import an existing animation into it.

Making a Snowglobe
This lesson shows you how to make a snowglobe with PhotoImpact and the bundled GIF Animator.

Mississippi Steamboat (Animation)
Draw and animate a Mississippi riverboat. Advanced level for PhotoImpact 8

Northern Lights
This tutorial shows how to create an animated background effect similar to the Northern Lights. PhotoImpact 4 and up.

Optimizing & Saving a GIF Image
So you have a great looking image that you want to save as a transparent .gif eh? This tutorial will show you exactly how to do just that.

Optimizing & Saving a JPG Image
So you have a really neat image or photograph you want to save, eh? In my experience it's far better to save images that don't require a transparent background as .jpg's, so this tutorial will show you exactly how to do that using the Image Optimizer.

Playing with Components
"Explore the Component Designer and learn how to make fancy buttons, fabulous banners for your web pages, and how to dig out those little extras that are hiding within." Beginner level for PhotoImpact 8

Pop-up Menu
From Stephanie Baker-Thomas: "Learn how to use the slicer, then apply the new Script Effects to create a Pop-up Menu."

Rainy Day Window Animation
Create a window scene of rain or snow. Beginner level for PhotoImpact 8

Reflet Rose Bookmark Tutorial
Create a water animation bookmark image using PI12 and Reflet, a free stand-alone application.

Reflet Water Animation (with overlay)
Animated a landscape scene with moving water reflections. Intermediate level for PhotoImpact 8

Remote Rollovers
From Stephanie Baker-Thomas: "PI7 makes it easy to create remote rollovers on your web pages with new Script Effects."

Slicing Bread
There are some wonderful path objects hidden in the Easy Palette which can be used for animations in the Path Library. This tutorial will show you how to manipulate the objects to create an animation. Ulead Gif Animator 5, PhotoImpact 6

Sliding Blocks Puzzle Animation
Turn a photo into an animation of a child's puzzle toy with sliding blocks. Intermediate level for PhotoImpact 8

So Nice to Slice
From Ulead: Make your images Web-ready and efficient by using PhotoImpact's Slice Tool. Version 7.

Sunrise & Sunset Animations
Learn to draw and animate these simple scenes of the rising and setting sun. Beginner level for PhotoImpact 8 and GIF animator 5.

Swimming Angelfish
Work solely within GIF Animator to make a little angelfish swim.

Venetian Blinds Animation
Peek through Venetian blinds to a photo behind. Tools used include the Path Tools, Easy Palette Layer Manager and Gif Animator. For version 6.0.

Waggy Tailed Pup (Animation)
Create a cute puppy animation. Intermediate level for PhotoImpact 7 or 8 and GIF Animator 5.

Water Animation
Intermediate tutorial for creating a water animation in PI 8.

Web Album
From Stephanie Baker-Thomas: "A handy way to display a large collection of photos, album creates thumbnails and links to the full size images."

Web Slide Show
From Stephanie Baker-Thomas: "Create a slide show, complete with midi music file, to showcase your favorite photos."

Windmill Animation for Beginners
Learn the basics of animation with PI6 and GIF Animator. Includes the zip file of objects you will need.

Word Play (Animation)
Anyone for Scrabble? This tutorial shows you how to draw and animate a crossword game board. Intermediate level for PhotoImpact 8 and Gif Animator 5.