Blinkie-Tutorial . . .

Since so many people have asked me HOW to make those cute little Blinkies I have decided to give you a quick tutorial for making your own Blinkies . . . it is pretty easy and soooo much fun . . .

HERE WE GO . . . (click on screenshots for larger view)

First you will need an Image Editing Software-I use Adobe Photoshop-but Paint Shop Pro or any other Graphic-Program will do as well . . .

Create a new document with the size of your Blinkie (I used 150 x 50 pixel . . . but this is up to you) . . .

Okey . . .. now in your empty document create your Blinkie  by adding background, colours, embellishments etc. (just go to your fave scrapbook supply website-grab a screenshot by pressing "print" on your keyboard and then you can use those images for your Blinkie . . . just start playing a little with your program . . .

When your’re satisfied with the look-save your document (for example blinkie1.jpg)! That’s the first part of your Blinkie . . .

Now use the document you just created to add something/remove something etc. . . . this will be the second part of your Blinkie . . . so all the changes you will do to the image will later be a part of the Blinkie . . . add text or shapes or change the colours or the background-paper . . . whatever you can imagine . . .

Save this document (make sure you pick "Save AS . . ." . . . not only "Save"-because otherwhise your first document would be overwritten . . .) . . . name it for example blinkie2.jpg . . .

Okey . . . now it is up to you to create more different versions of your image or just stick with the two of them . . . in this example above I have created 4 different versions of it . . .

Now we will get things MOVING . . . for this EASY step-you can download many different (some free) programs from the Internet . . . I use Animation Gif Wizard . . .. there is a free 30 Day Trial Version available HERE for downloading . . . follow the instructions-install and start the programm . . .

Now just click "Add Files" and pick your created jpg-files (ony by one) . . . you can play around with the programm a little to make changes to the speed of the animation etc.-or just leave it as it is . . . click on "Output" in the Tabs, choose the location to save your animated Blinkie and then click "Create Animated Gif now"!

That’s it . . . you are done . . . easy-isnt it??? No magic-no hard work . . . and no further skills needed . . . just give it a try and play around a little and you will see-it is easy and super-duper fun . . . and now I can not wait to see all the lovely Blinkies you will create . . . :o)

If you have any further questions or need assistance-just drop me a line in the comments-section and I will try my best to help you out . . .

Okey . . . I hope you enjoyed my little Tut and now-go-create!!!!