How to Make Animated Blinkies

This tutorial was given to me by my friend Maddy to use.

Firstly I’m Teaching how to make a blinkie using ‘Adobe Photoshop‘ and ‘Adobe Imageready‘ . You can also use other programs too if you don’t have these two.

Let’s start. Open Photoshop and got to ‘File‘ > ‘New‘ and in the Dimension asked Use ‘Width‘ as 100 and ‘Height‘ as 11.

Now Select the Pencil tool and choose the brush ‘Hard Round 1 Pixel‘

Now select the ‘Zoom Tool(Z)‘ and Zoom ‘Layer1′ to your own Convenience.

You can Draw something similar to the following picture using the Pencil tool on the layer (usually) named ‘layer1′ .

Now make another new layer and fill it with a lighter color than the border like the picture below. Always make sure that ‘Layer1‘ is always on top of the other layers.

Now we have to fill in the letters.Make a new layer, Take the same pencil tool , choose a different color and write down the letters on the new layer like this.

Now is the part that is important for Animating the Blinkie. We have to make new layers for each of the letters with a different color or any other effect that you’d like. Each letter should be in a new layer.

Now ‘Jump To Imageready (Ctrl+Shift+M)‘ , If you see the Animation window, then it’s all right if not, then go to ‘Window‘ > ‘Show Animation‘

Now to the Animating part. On the Animation Window, click on the ‘Animation‘ Tab. You’ll see a slide there with all the layers. Remove all the Layers that you don’t want on your first slide (i.e.., The eye should disappear on the layers window.)

Then on the ‘Animation Window’ Press the Button on the below image

A new layer is formed. Now add the layer of the individual letter that you made in ‘Photoshop‘ (The eye should appear on the layers Tab) Leave the other layers as it is. Now go on making new slides and adding and Removing layers as you like.When you are finished Press the ‘Play‘ Button and you can see your new blinkie.

It should look something like this

Hope this helped. This is only a simple Tutorial on how to make simple Blinkies.

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