The document discusses different types of graphical user interface components including image animation, progress bars, and tab strips. It provides details on how progress bars visualize the progress of long operations and how animated GIFs work by compressing multiple images together to create a mini movie-like effect. Steps are outlined for creating an image animation in a program by adding picture boxes, selecting images to add, making all pictures the same size, overlapping them, and toggling their visibility to simulate movement.