With the release of Paint Shop Pro 6.0, Jasc also introduced Animation Shop 2.0. New features in this release include:
· Banner Wizard for quickly generating text banner animations, · Multiple-level undo/redo, · New effects and transitions like Pinwheel, Star Wipe, and Sliding Boxes; · Line tool for adding normal lines or Bézier curves to animation frames, · Shape tool for adding outlined or filled shapes to animation frames, · Cull Animation feature and crop tool for reducing animation file sizes, · Support for Video for Windows (AVI) and Autodesk FLI/FLC animation files, · Drag & drop images and frames between PSP 6 and Animation Shop 2, · Enhanced color selection control, · and much more.
The 7.0 edition of Paint Shop Pro brings another new release of Animation Shop as well. The latest revision, Animation Shop 3.0, introduces a variety of new features like:
· "Onionskin Preview" mode for enhanced frame-to-frame editing, · Morph Image Transition effect for animations, · Improved integration with Paint Shop Pro, · Animation Toolbar with VCR controls for working with animations, · Ability to export multiple frames as a single, multi-layer PSP file; · Mover tool for moving the content of an animation frame within a frame, · Ability to open and work with MPEG files, · Expanded features for optimizing and viewing animations, · and much more.
