How to make GIF screenshots

Posted on 29 Jun 2014
  1. Install Cropper.
  2. Install Cropper Plugins by placing the *.dll files into C:\Program Files (x86)\Fusion8Design\Cropper\plugins.
  3. Start Cropper and right-click into the blue rectangle. Set output to GIF.
  4. In Cropper Options (Right Click -> Options -> Appearance), make sure, "Hide Crop Window" is checked for both "during capture" and "after capture". This is counterintuitive (a bug?), because "Capture" appears to only be the first frame, otherwise the other frames of the GIF would show the blue overlay.

Note that it only works this "nicely" (not counting the "hiding after capture" weirdness) with the GIF plugin - the AVI capture does not work this nicely.