Banner Maker Pro 8.0

Banner Maker Pro 8.0 is created to be high-quality and easy-to-use tool which can create professional looking banner ads, web headers, buttons, animated gifs, logos, and Web graphics quickly. By using a wizard like interface, you can create great looking web graphics in just minutes. Simply follow the tabs at the top of the program to go step-by-step in the graphic making process. Many options are available including one step animation, 3d text effects, gradients, and the ability to add your own images and logos and more. Version 7.0.5 features Vista style buttons, glass styled buttons, glow shadow for text, and the ability to upload directly to imageshack.us.

Major Features:

1. Banner Maker Pro is the easiest way to make web graphics. You can create an animated banner in just 5 minutes with no graphic skills.
2. More customizable than other online banner and button makers.
3. Create any sized image from 80 x 15 blog buttons to web headers that stretch across the top of a web page.
4. Add any image, photo, or logo. All added images can be cropped, resized and blended using transparency.
5. Over 120 different one-step animations. Create your banner, choose your animation and save. It's that easy.
6. More text effects than any online banner maker - add borders and three types of shadows (sharp, diffuse & glow). Change the character spacing and transparency. Set the text at an angle. Use any font on your computer. Set the text at an angle or wrap it around a circle. Unicode text is supported and all text uses anti-aliasing for clean and sharp looking characters.
   • Over 800 backgrounds and stand alone images.  Backgrounds images are unique custom created backgrounds that cannot be found anywhere else.  Images include over 40 different "click here!" buttons and 40 different common window control images.
7. Undo and Redo changes. Also, animations can be saved and edited later.
8. The Power Preview allows you to view hundreds of different combinations of your image with different backgrounds and fonts.
9. Compress your images using the built in jpeg and non-animated gif cruncher.
10. Email, FTP and upload to imageshack.us all of your images right from within Banner Maker Pro.
11. Shapes - Buttons can now be made from Arrows, Diamonds, Hexagons, Octagons, Stars, and eight different types of Tabs.  In addition, all shapes now include the ability to add a shadow and/or an edge.
12. Create HTML code to place the banner on your website. In addition, you can create code for a banner rotator with up to 10 images and create HTML code to make mouse-overs.

Enhancements:

• Over 60 new one step animations including 29 text or image only animations
• New animation type - Slide Show Animation - animations now blend from one banner to another with 50 different possible animations
• Better quality animated banners.
• New shapes - tabs, one rounded corner tabs, 16, 24, and 32 point stars
• Color picker and color converter options make color selection much easier
• Over 100 new background images
• Added images can now be edited - flip, mirror, rotate, and adjust brightness and contrast
• Rulers can now be placed around the banner for better placement

Requirements:

• Windows 2000, XP, or Vista
• 12MB of hard disk space