Can I try out Active GIF Creator before I decide to buy it?
Yes! You can download Active GIF Creator for FREE!
Note. GIF-files can be saved in unregistered copy of Active GIF Creator with additional text at the left top corner in each frame: AGif - UNREGISTERED.

How can I purchase Active GIF Creator?
You can buy Active GIF Creator online and pay via secure gateway with your credit card. You must go to Web-site referenced in menu item Help/Registration/Get Registration Code and follow instructions on Internet pages.
Also there are other payment methods: telephone and fax orders, check via postal mail, purchase orders.

If I buy Active GIF Creator now, must I pay for future upgrades?
No! Once you buy Active GIF Creator, you are guaranteed to get any future upgrades for FREE. We have new release of Active GIF Creator each 1-2 months. So there is no reason to wait. If you buy it now you pay for personal license US $35 or for business license US $50 and will never have to pay for any upgrades, even when the features will have expanded and the price will be increased. So take advantage of this attractive offer and get Active GIF Creator now!

I am very interested in Active GIF Creator and I would like to purchase license to use it, but I do not know which license to buy.
Personal use license grants you the right to use this software for fun, to build your personal homepage, etc. You can use Active GIF Creator for any purpose if this usage does not bring you money.
Business license of this program grants you an ability to use the program for commercial purposes.
Just two examples:
- you create a site or homepage for your client and he/she pays you money for that. This is a commercial use of the program for sure.
- you use it to build a site for your company. This site does not bring the money directly but it is used to represent your company on the Net, this representation brings you additional clients and these clients bring additional income. This is a commercial use of the program too.

My company is thinking about using your animated GIF software. We would like to install it on many computers, is the $50 for business still holds or is it per machine ?
One business license allows you to use Active GIF Creator no more than on one computer in your company. If you need more workplaces with installed Active GIF Creator contact us and we give discount for multi-licences purchase.

How to embed created GIF-file into PowerPoint?
You can put GIF in PowerPoint presentation like any other graphical file using menu item Insert/Picture/From file in MS PowerPoint program. PowerPoint has different versions. Help for PowerPoint 97 contains text - "only first frame from GIF is used". Old version does not animate GIF. PowerPoint 2002 supports animated GIF.

When I add multiple graphics I'm experiencing problems.
When you add image(s) from graphic file by menu item Image/Add, new images have attributes defined in dialog File/Preferences on tab New.
GIF-file is a special case as it already contains frames with attributes. So you can leave original image attributes if you mark checkbox Keep original frame attributes of added GIF-files in dialog File/Preferences on tab Add.
Some words about animation loops. It would be strange to use number of animation loops from added GIF-file as you can add several GIFs to your newly designed GIF. So you need to set animation loops on attribute toolbar tab Global.
If you open some GIF by File/Open then Active GIF Creator uses all global settings and image attributes from this GIF-file.

How to make an image as background of others images?
If you want to create some moving object over background (for example, butterfly in flowers), it is better to create first non-transparent frame with background and attribute How to remove = Do not remove. Then you should create some number of transparent frames with the object; you can define different offsets for frames to reflect movement; attribute How to remove = To background color or To previous state. GIF size (and web download time) depends on sizes of separate images inside GIF. So it is better to make big background and small transparent frames with offsets instead of frames all with backgrounds and objects.
If you want to create some new image as combination of your two (or more) images (merge them) you should check one (or more) images in the list (left part of program window), then select the second image. You will see the combined image on tab Compose: it will be saved in new frame after operation Image/Operations/Merge.

When I merge two BMPs together I am getting strange results. I set my transparent colors and I am not getting the first BMP data in the merge. Also when I select some image to set a transparent it changes its own colors.
You can try to apply operation Image/Attributes/Delete Local Palette for source frames before merging and then merge these frames. If frames have the same global palette then the merged frame will use this palette too. If two frames inside GIF have local palettes with different sets of 256 colors then the palette of merged frame will be converted to some new 256-colored palette.

I have several images that are drawing on a white background. When I do the pixel reduction all but the first image display reverses the white and black part of the images. How is editing such images?
Optimization dialog Remove redundant pixels eliminates pixels in transparent image that already have been displayed in previous frame. Result depends on images itself in very great degree. Sometimes it may even increase size of GIF-file! So try both states of this checkbox: checked and not checked. Note that images you see in frames after such operations may be strange for you. But you must know that pixels will be combined with pixels from previous frames. For your case optimization transformed the second and other images to transparent frames with black transparent color. In practice it is better to work with original non-optimized GIF and make optimization for final release. Operation Restore frames in optimized GIF added in Active GIF Creator 2.16 helps you to create images more suitable for editing. Note that it is impossible to restore unoptimized GIF in its initial state. For example, in common case we unable to define exact frame that contained the pixel before optimization. So all frames (except the first) in restored GIF are not transparent. Another problem that two transparent frames may have different 256-colored local palettes, so we have image with more than 256 colors and must make color reduction (GIF color palette contains no more than 256 colors). It is better to have repository of your original non-optimized GIFs.