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Google Web Designer

Desktop tool for creating animated videos, images and HTML5 ads

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Google Web Designer is a downloadable desktop application for creating videos, images, and HTML5-based ad creative. It combines a visual design workspace with direct access to HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, letting users switch between a Design view and a Code view. Animation can be built in Quick mode, which strings together scenes, or Advanced mode, which uses layers on a timeline, with motion paths and custom easing available. The tool also supports 3D content via CSS3, interactive events (including touch, rotation, and shaking), components such as image galleries and video players, multiple pages, responsive ads with media rules, and a dynamic workflow that connects elements to data signals.

Content creation includes Shape and Pen tools, text, asset import, and a Template Gallery with customizable layouts, plus an Easy Mode for editing templates without advanced design tools. Google integrations cover Google Fonts, the Studio Asset Library, publishing to Studio, and sharing files on Google Drive. The application is intended for business use and is available as 64-bit .deb and .rpm download packages for Linux systems.

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