Animation Beginner's Classes

ULEAD GIF ANIMATOR 5
This is the Program we use here at ABCs
It is advisable to buy and download Ulead Gif Animator 5 (UGA5) from its official website (there is a free trial period if you are just 'looking'). There are plenty of other sites available with free downloads i.e. kazaa.com but it is highly likely you will also download undesirable material such as spyware and these free downloads are usually illegal copies. You can buy UGA5 by itself for around $US50 & it also comes
free with Photo Impact (PI)

If you live in New Zealand it is also much cheaper to download than buy from a retail outlet...
and I have yet to find a shop which stocks this program outside of Auckland

The official link for Ulead Gif Animator 5 here

Their official tutorials here

Ulead Free Particle Plug-In here
and there are also other plug-ins available if you search the site

ULEAD PHOTO IMPACT
Official link to download here

If you have a dialup modem please allow at least 5 hours and there
are add-ons which will also take time.
PI has a free version of UGA included (which already contains the Ulead Particle Plug-In)
so no need to get the separate Particle Plug-In.
If you are using the free trial program please be aware that you will not
have downloaded everything available in the retail version

ULEAD PHOTO EXPRESS
There is now an updated version 4.0
which can be downloaded here
Free downloads here for vs 2.0, 3.0

More PLUG-INS for UGA5
(NB: These sites are not official Ulead sites)
There are a lot of these around...
all Adobe Plug-ins are compatible although you may need a .dll file for some of them

Go here for info on installing (courtesy of MoonShadow)
Go here if you require a .dll file and here (courtesy of MoonShadow)

http://punkinstuff.tripod.com/index.html

http://graphicssoft.about.com/cs/pluginsfilters
(tells you what plug-ins and filters actually are)
http://www.graffici.com/freeware/filter_attacks.htm

http://www.alienskin.com/prod_index.html
(also Xenofex... if the above link is not available)
http://www.redfieldplugins.com/
(all sorts here - Thanks Barby)
http://www.freephotoshop.com/html/free_plugins.html

http://www.pircnet.com/downloads.html
(all sorts here - Thanks PilgrimDude)
http://thepluginsite.com/
(all sorts, Thanks PilgrimDude)
http://www.mways.co.uk/prog/plugin.php
Almathera Plugin Collection