Hello
Here in this topic, I list different Gif animation or image edition sofwares you can use for forum design creation. Some of them are freewares and others are trial versions.
This post will be updated if I have to add softwares in the list.
All the links in this post are legal links, they are Download.com links or official website links.
Gif animation
unFREEZ (Freeware, really simple to use)
Gif movie gear (Shareware, 30 days trial)
Ulead Gif Animator (Shareware, 15 days trial)
Image edition
Adobe Photoshop Elements 4 (Shareware, 30 days trial)
PhotoFiltre 6.2 (Freeware)
The GIMP (Freeware, needs to have the
GTK+ Runtime Environment installed to work)
Pixia 3.3 (Freeware)
Adobe Photoshop CS2 (Shareware, 30 days trial)
Macromedia Fireworks MX 2004 (Shareware, 30 days trial)
Paint Shop Pro 10 (Shareware, 30 days trial)
Ulead PhotoImpact 11 (Shareware, 30 days trial)