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What is the best product for web banners

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January 12, 2017
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I wanted to ask the community what is the best product for creating web banners animated and static.

Also what is easiest to learn and are there any tutorials for that product showing how to create animated banners ?

appreciate any help.

Thanks

Louie

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Correct answer Joseph Labrecque

I would recommend Animate CC for web banners. You can even include ad network specific code within them.

Here is a link: Step-By-Step HTML5 Ad Creation With Adobe Animate CC | Creative Cloud blog by Adobe

stoyank52891424

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I think for good banner you need a flair for the design primarily. My studio Adsspirit creates everything from static to responsive animated HTML5 web banners. Mostly i used Adobe animate and Google web designer. you can check my website www.adsspirit.com/

Ussnorway7605025

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LouieBlu wrote
I wanted to ask the community what is the best product for creating web banners animated and static.

Photoshop is what I use or Edge... there are a lot of great tutorials for Photoshop but almost nothing for Edge because Adobe has Animate CC now

Nancy OShea

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Photoshop

Create animated GIFs |

Photoshop Tutorial: How to Make a Basic, Frame Animation - YouTube

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Anonymous

for web banner, HTML5 or FLASH would be the best option, even you can create gif which is more flexible option in a web banner. i have a WordPress blog which based on tourism, basically, target and post on places to visit in Mumbai, i am also working on the banner and prefer GIF which is light in weight and better for on-page SEO also.

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Anonymous

I was also searching for a recommended product to create web banners for my website. Thanks!

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alexferri

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Animate CC is better but a powerful alternative for creation of GIF & WebP is Animated Banner Maker from PCWinSoft. I won't publish links. I don't want Adobe to think I am spamming. So look it up. What I can tell is that it uses vectorial frame-by-frame layer-by-layer technology similar to Adobe Animate and you can change position, size, transparency, rotation, and colors between frames. The program works with symbols like Adobe Animate and symbols can be text, image, and polygons such as rectangles, round rectangles, ellipses, and triangles.

Ussnorway7605025

Legend

ime Edge is aimed at web designers who want some control not companies making google adds... the right tool for the job = be clear about what you need done.

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marjantrajkovski

Inspiring

I would recommend Edge Animate CC for web banners. Canvas is still not recommended. It is slow for most users.

pziecina

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marjantrajkovski wrote
I would recommend Edge Animate CC for web banners. Canvas is still not recommended. It is slow for most users.

As Animate CC creates the animation using html5 canvas and javascript, then how can using canvas be slower than what is created with Animate CC?

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marjantrajkovski

Inspiring

Because Animate CC use Canvas and GPU and Edge Animate use DOM and CPU. Better GPU which is needed for optimal rendering Canvas are using only designers, developers, gamers etc. For optimal rendering of DOM animation is OK normal CPU.

LouieBluAuthor

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I downloaded Animate CC and I tried to import PNG images and it just gave me a a blue square box, was trying to create a 728x90 banner I am really a beginner a newbie if you will lol, Just want to try making some animated banners, it would be nice to have different animated styles but for now I can go with whatever preset animation there are.

So what is better for me as a Newbie, Photoshop or Animate CC,

also would like to know if there are any video tutorials out there to help me learn

Thanks really appreciate the help and feedback.

Louie

pziecina

Legend

This discussion is a little to long to be re-directed to a specific forum, but I would suggest that asking in both forums for 'best learning' resources for what you wish to do is the recommended course of action at this point.

For PhotoShop - https://forums.adobe.com/community/photoshop/content

For CC Animate - https://forums.adobe.com/community/animate/animate_general/content?filterID=contentstatus[published]~objecttype~objecttype[thread]

LouieBluAuthor

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Ok thank you all for your advise and feedback

Joseph Labrecque

Correct answer

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I would recommend Animate CC for web banners. You can even include ad network specific code within them.

Here is a link: Step-By-Step HTML5 Ad Creation With Adobe Animate CC | Creative Cloud blog by Adobe

LouieBluAuthor

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Thank You Joseph

pziecina

Legend

I'm probably going to be a little controversial here.

If you are creating web banners for your own page, and not for distribution as an ad. Then Photoshop would be my choice for a static banner, or for creating an animated gif for a simple animated banner.

If however the banner is a complexed animation then using css animations would be the ideal choice. Unfortunately there is NO software available for doing this that is not aimed at the experienced coder.

For banner ad creation with minimal coding skills, then CC Animate is probably the one to use, but all browsers are now starting to include ad and flash blockers as standard, requiring the user to agree to the inclusion of the ad/flash 'content'.

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