The best software for creating animated banners?

What is the best software for creating animated banners?

 

I would certainly say Photoshop is the best software for this, but it depends of course on what you want to do with the banner. If it is an ad banner, Flash is probably the best program for it. If it is a website title or something to that affect, you can make animated .gifs in Photoshop. Unfortunately .gifs are only limited to 256 colors and have 1 bit transparency, so whatever you make transparent will have a hard edge. One would think that by now something would be done about this, and I suppose .png animation which supports alpha transparency is in the works, but it doesn't work on all browsers. It also depends on how you want your banner to be animated. If it is text animation, you can do that sort of thing with Flash, jQuery, Javascript, and even CSS. But if you are animating images then I'd say Photoshop or Flash.

 

You can use photo shop and corel draw to create the animated banner.

 

I am personally using photoshop to create banners and animate them but I would say for creating smooth animated banenrs you can use flash and adobe after effects. Both this software have great animation facilities and can be smooth and faster animation

 

Adobe after effects ofcourse...

 

After design your banner in photoshop, you can animated it in Ulead Gif Animator software !
I design this banner with PS and Ulead

 

Ulead Gif Animator. It is simple and has all the functionality you need.

 

yes that's right,I usually use that but PS is very professional

 

Photoshop

 

Absolutely Flash for animated banners. Photoshop is not good enough for animations.

 

I'll go with adobe after effect. Very good on making animated one. banner, logos, video, etc. anything that moves.

 

Try one of these free banner maker tools below.
Bannersnack
My Banner Maker
Bannernow
EximiousSoft Banner Maker
Gimp

 

There was a time when there was Adobe ImageReady if I recall correctly. When you finished designing a banner in Photoshop you just clicked a button 'switch to imageready' and from there you could animate the banner and export for web. Great program.

 

I use Photoshop for animation myself, but there is a great new FREE option from Google, its brand new and i have only began using it myself, but its pretty awesome for animated banner creation. It does a bunch of other stuff for the coders in the bunch to, im not coder so i havent messed much with the css and html options it has. Anyway thats enough rambling from me check it out for yourself, i like it anyway. https://www.google .com/webdesigner/

 

For me ideal-banners.com is the best online flash banner maker. On this site you will receive cool animated banners.

 

Adobe After Effect and Photoshop.

 

I always make .gif banners on adobe photo shop.

 

aren't the new adobe cc very much focused with that. animation on web?

 

Newer Photoshop version have 'Timeline' and with it you can edit animations, movies even....

 

I primarily use GIMP. It's completely free and open source. I've made many many animations using GIMP.

If you want more efficiency, use ToonBoom. I use ToonBoom studio. Though it cost me somewhere around $250-$300, it paid for itself once I sold enough animations made in ToonBoom Studio. ToonBoom can export individual images, movie files AND .swf (flash files).

These are all alternatives to Adobe products.

Wish you all the best in your endeavors