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ragtime rose-
I use Adobe Photoshop elements. This is an explanation for that program. If you have a different program, you could probably look up how to do it via their "help". Just look up "animate." If you don't have a program, there are a few on the web. Look up blinkie tutorial and it will walk you through it.
The traditional sized blinkies are 150 by 20 pixels. So open a new, blank canvas that size and then just start drawing. I probably do it the long way round (I don't make too many), but to get them to blink, you need two or more alternating layers. For example, to make a blinking edge, you would make dashes around the outside of your canvas, save it somewhere (save for web, usually in gif, but do not click the box that syas animate- that's for later), then go back and move the pixels slightly to the right or left, so that they "move" when you animate it. Or you can change the color. Either way, save your slightly different canvas as a different name than your first, again in gif. Whatever part you don't want to "blink" needs to be EXACTLY the same on each canvas/layer. When you have all your layers made and saved with different file names, open a brand new canvas, plus all your temporary files. Copy your first image (the whole 150x20 pixels) and paste into your new canvas. Copy the second, slightly different image (the whole thing) and paste ON TOP of the first image in your new canvas. It will show up as a layer. Do the same for each layer you have. Then save your new canvas, with all the slightly different layers, "for web" and this time check the box that says animate. Instead on mushing all the layers together, it will keep them separate and as part of the file, will run through them as a "slide show". You can change how fast or slow you want the different layers to go- I usually do about .25 seconds, some slightly slower, some faster.
Hope that helps! PM me if you are confused.
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Thanks for the ideas.
Enjoy!
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