Animated cursors are animated mouse pointers that can replace the default arrow cursor in Microsoft Windows. Such animated cursor files are given the .ani extension and are recognized by Windows and any application that handles cursors. You can get more information about the animated cursor format here.

AniTuner makes the creation and edition of these animated cursors easy: everyone can create his/her own animated cursors in a snap. You can use animated cursors not only to customize the appearance of Windows (desktop themes) but also to produce animations for your Web pages, e-mails, documents, manuals or even applications...

Features:

• Open and display any animated cursor
• Convert animated GIF and AVI into animated cursors (ANI)
• Import existing image files (BMP, GIF, PNG, PSD, ICO, CUR...) to turn them into cursors or animated cursors
• Export frames from your animated cursors to several image formats
• Modify existing animated cursors and change their color depth or size
• Convert animated cursors into animated GIF, AVI, static bitmaps or even Macromedia Flash SWF movies
• Edit frames, change their duration, modify them in your favorite image editor and save changes back to the animated cursor
• AniTuner handles all cursor sizes (not only 32x32) & color depths (from 1bpp to 32bpp)
• Special support for 32-bit cursors with a 8-bit alpha channel (partial transparency for Windows 2000/XP)
• Turn your old 16 or 256-color animated cursors into 32-bit animated cursors with a semi-transparent shadow for Windows XP
• Export (and import) animated cursors as a series of PNG files (with alpha channel optionally) for easy editing
• Create animated GIFs, small Flash movies using the Frame editor and the Import/Export functions
• Browse for animated cursors on your computer and easily preview them