Your background image will have the animation placed on top at a location and size you decide. Design your background image so its size and aspect ratio are right for the place you intend to share it.
The background image needs to be hosted somewhere that's publicly accessible so it can be loaded here. If you don't already know of somewhere imgBB is a good choice (opens in a new tab / window).
See below for the best sizes on popular social media.
If you need to convert your Gif to MP4 or other formats convertio is a good place to start (opens in a new tab / window)
For this, your background image needs to be hosted somewhere that's publicly accessible.
Just paste a link (url)
to it below and then hit the add button
Image link:
After adding your background image to the stage:
If you change your mind about the order, you can use the stack order buttons to set them the way you want. To make it easier, make sure you have them overlapping and that way you can see the stack order.
Or you can clear the stage and start over.
Use these notes to keep track of your background image links, products and places where you've shared. When you click save, the date is added at the front so you always know when you did what. These notes are specific to this animator.
If you need to, you can edit an existing note (but not the date it was created). When you've made your edits, click Update to apply your changes. The edited date is added at the end of the note.
The notes are stored locally in your browser and are 'persistent' so they're always available, even after you shut down and restart things. They're specific to the browser you're using at the time, so if you use different browsers, each will have its own notes.
It's a good idea not to put any personal info in them, just in case.
If you want to know more, read about local storage on this Wikipedia page (opens in a new tab / window).
Every time there's a change to this Nifty tool we'll announce it here. Whenever there's a new announcement, the previous one you saw will be shifted into the history.
If we need to, we'll update the current announcement instead of making a new one.
If you've hidden the news until there's a new announcement, you won't see updates. If you want to check for updates to the existing announcement from time to time, start the tool with this ?shownews=yes (and nothing else) at the end of the address bar.
If you don't use the tool for a while, you may miss some announcements entirely and they won't be in your history - but that's ok, just visit the Facebook group linked below if there's a new feature you need help with :)
The buttons give you full control over what's displayed in this panel or whether the panel itself is displayed at all, with an option to keep it hidden until there's a new announcement.
One final point: we'll also show you here if there's a general announcement about Nifty that we think you need to see - but it won't be added to your history for this tool.
If you need help about any announcement made, visit the NiftyToolZTips and Support Facebook group and ask there. To see an explanation of this tool, visit the Nifty Product Product Views Animator for Zazzle and Society6 page on our site.