Animation Shop comes with several built-in special effects for images and text. These effects are found under Effects – Image Transitions or Effects – Text Transitions menu. Choose an effect and the software creates the frames automatically for you. You can also specify settings in the gif animation such as frame rate and the number of frames. This helps you save a lot of time and get professional looking special effects in animated gif images.
Here are a few Image effects.
Dissolve Effect
DoubleSplit Effect
Explode Effect
Pixelate Effect
Spiral Effect
Stretch Effect
Here are a few Text effects.
Marquee Effect
Flag Effect
Highlight Effect
The best part about Animation Shop special effects is that you can literally drag-drop the effect you want and your starting image/text will changed to yield an animated gif.
Animation Shop comes bundled with PaintShop Pro. It is a vey simple program to use and you will start creating great looking animated gif images in a few minutes.