so this is basically just an overview of how i make blinkies in photoshop! i’ll walk through the steps of how i made this blinkie:

[under a cut bc it’s long lmao]

step one: open the base

i have a base that i start with each time i make a blinkie bc it’s a lot easier than drawing it all out from scratch each time; you can make one yourself or i have the .psd of mine for download here

step two: add any graphics you want

not all blinkies have more than text, but if you want to add anything on the side, i would add it first because it’s easier to place text and pick colours when the graphics are in place

step three: add text

this step can be swapped with the next one, but i usually add the text before i add the colours

step four: add colours

as i mentioned before, this step is pretty interchangeable with the previous one; unless you really want something hard to look at, pick colours that go with each other and whatever graphics you have on the blinkie, if any. i use the paint bucket tool directly on the first four layers but you can use fill layers too

(i like to zoom in for the colour part which is why it’s zoomed in on these screenshots lmao)

step five: save for web

ctrl+alt+shift+s to save this frame of the blinkie as a png; we’ll do the same with the next frame after swapping the border colours

step six: swap the border dot colours

this is what makes blinkies blink! under the layers box, double click on the coloured square on the colour fill layers and eyedrop the colour on the other fill layer, and repeat with the second one!

step seven: repeat step five

do the same thing you did in step five to save the second frame; i’d recommend saving it as the same file name with a 2 after it so you don’t have to hunt them down separately to animate them

step eight: animate it

i use gifmaker.me to animate blinkies since in my opinion it’s a hell of a lot easier than animating through photoshop; upload the two frames, adjust the animation speed (i recommend 100), click “create gif animation”, then click “view the gif”! then you can just right-click on your blinkie and save it as whatever you want!

congratulations! you’ve made a blinkie! have fun!!

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