I found this on the net that might be of interest to some of you
The Original files contained files that I was unsure of so I deleted them and just kept the apps and key gen, I have installed and things seem to work well.
ImportantWhen installing make sure you go for the trial period and not the full program as the window will not reduce so that you can enter the code, when you have installed you can then enter the code by going to the drop down menue and install from there.

Something Really Important

Here’s the single most important thing you need to know about GIF files. If you read nothing else in the documentation for GIF Construction Set Professional, read this.

An image as it’s seen by your eye, and by things like digital cameras, scanners and most decent imaging software, is represented as “true color.” True-color images have a virtually unlimited number of available colors from which to draw. In a computer’s sense, a virtually unlimited number is 16,777,216 colors, which is close enough to infinity for the purpose of this discussion.

These “true-color” images are also referred to as “24-bit” images, because two raised to the power of 24 is 16,777,216. Somewhere in the heady days of your youth there no doubt lurks a prematurely-bald highschool mathematics teacher who would find this highly significant.

Because the GIF format harkens back to the adolescence of personal computers, wherein only rich people could afford systems with four megabytes of memory, GIF files can support a maximum of 256 colors, down somewhat from 16,777,216. In order to represent a true-color image in a GIF file, some way must be found to do so using no more than 256 colors.

This is from whence almost all the problems with GIF files on the web arise.

There is a way to squeeze a true-color image into a GIF file. It involves several steps. It’s worth noting that you won’t have to do any of this yourself – GIF Construction Set Professional will handle it for you – but you might be called upon to decide which of a variety of options to tell it to select.

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First off, we’ll need to know which 256 colors to use in the GIF image being created. While a GIF file can only support 256 colors, each of the 256 colors can be drawn from the original 16,777,216 colors of a true-color image. The 256-color “palette” of a GIF file can be created by figuring out which 256 colors best reflect the colors in the original image, a process called “quantization.”

Alternately, we might decide to use a canned palette which contains an even dispersal of colors between pure black and pure white. This is called an “orthogonal” palette. There are good reasons for both choices, which we’ll deal with later.
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Once we have a palette for the new GIF file, we’ll need to squeeze the true-color source file down to use no colors save for those in the new palette. This can be done in one of two ways:
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Each of the original colors can be replaced with the nearest color in the new palette, a process called “remapping.” Remapping is suitable for line art, but if you apply it to a photorealistic image, the result will look like an Andy Warhol poster.
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A complex pattern of alternating dots can be used to simulate the original colors. This is referred to as “dithering.” Dithering is capable of creating remarkably effective simulations of true color, but with two notable drawbacks. The first is that having alternating dot patterns in your pictures lowers their apparent resolution and makes transparency effects a bit tricky. We’ll get into the latter in greater detail a bit later. The second problem is that dithered images compress badly, often resulting in unworkably large files.

The left image is a true-color graphic. The right image is the source true-color graphic dithered to 256 colors. Note the visible graininess in the dithered image. This example has been dithered to an orthogonal palette to make its dithering artifacts more apparent. Dithering to a quantized palette typically results in fewer noticeable dots.

In creating an animation, it’s often the case that multiple true-color images, each having its own range of colors, need be squeezed into the claustrophobic back seat of the GIF format. GIF files for use on the web must apply the same 256-color palette to all the images in an animation. GIF Construction Set Professional deals with this issue by deriving the best possible palette for all the images in an animation, what is called a “superpalette.” Once again, you need not know how all this works, as long as you know what it means.

GIF Construction Set Professional will import images to create your animations with from most of the popular image file formats. These include GIF, PNG, PCX, BMP and JPG. The GIF format, as has been discussed, can support images having no more than 256 colors. As such, using GIF source images to build your animations is likely to confront you with the least dire color problems of the sort discussed here. By comparison, all images stored in JPG files have 16,777,216 possible colors. Using JPG files as source images can require that you be somewhat more aware of how GIF Construction Set Professional will deal with too many colors. A great deal more will be said of this later.

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