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Blinkie Tutorial

BlinkieMommies.com provides both FREE blinkies and a FREE Tutorial. If you've always been curious about how to make blinkies, please read on!

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• Step #1: Open your graphics design program (Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop work well).
• Step #2: Create a rectangle for the base of your blinkie. 150 x 20 pixels is standard. Choose a colour (e.g. green).
• Step #3: If you would like your blinkie to have a border, create an inner box of a different colour (e.g. white). 144 x 14 is a good size. Alternatively, you can also make a box that is 146x16 and give it a 2 pixel border.

  
  

• Step #4: For the blinking "lights", choose either circles or rectangles, and evenly space them around your border.
• Step #5: To create the blinking effect, group together every 2nd "light" and then again with the opposing "lights". You should have 2 groups.
• Step #6: Choose colours for the two groups of "lights" (e.g. blue and white).

  
  

• Step #7: Choose what you'd like your blinkie to say (our example = "I (heart) Blinkies").
• Step #8: Save a copy of your (still) blinkie. * see below

  
  iloveblinkies1.gif

  
  Closeup #1

• Step #9: Switch the colours of the "lights" (e.g. blue becomes white and vice versa).
• Step #10: Save a copy of this (still) blinkie with a different file name.

  
  iloveblinkies2.gif

  
  Closeup #2

• Step #11: Open your animation program (e.g. Microsoft GIF Animator).
• Step #12: Insert the two blinkie files. Change the settings so that the animation repeats/loops forever.
• Step #13: Choose how fast/slow you would like your blinkie to be, in one-hundredths-of-a-second.
• Step #14: Save your animated blinkie.

blinkie_iloveblinkies.gif

• Step #1: Open your graphics design program (Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop work well).
• Step #2: Create a rectangle for the base of your blinkie. 150 x 20 pixels is standard. Choose a colour (e.g. green).
• Step #3: If you would like your blinkie to have a border, create an inner box of a different colour (e.g. white). 144 x 14 is a good size. Alternatively, you can also make a box that is 146x16 and give it a 2 pixel border.

  
  

• Step #4: For the blinking "lights", choose either circles or rectangles, and evenly space them around your border.
• Step #5: To create the blinking effect, group together every 2nd "light" and then again with the opposing "lights". You should have 2 groups.
• Step #6: Choose colours for the two groups of "lights" (e.g. blue and white).

  
  

• Step #7: Choose what you'd like your blinkie to say (our example = "I (heart) Blinkies").
• Step #8: Save a copy of your (still) blinkie. * see below

  
  iloveblinkies1.gif

  
  Closeup #1

• Step #9: Switch the colours of the "lights" (e.g. blue becomes white and vice versa).
• Step #10: Save a copy of this (still) blinkie with a different file name.

  
  iloveblinkies2.gif

  
  Closeup #2

• Step #11: Switch the colours of the "lights" and make other changes (e.g. change the colour of the heart). Save a copy of this (still) blinkie with yet another unique file name.

  
  iloveblinkies3.gif

  
  Closeup #3

• Step #12: Continue to create different blinkie pieces, taking care to flip the colours of the "lights" each time. Each blinkie piece should have it's own file name.

  
  iloveblinkies4.gif

  
  Closeup #4

• Step #13: Open your animation program (e.g. Microsoft GIF Animator).
• Step #14: Insert the blinkie files from the bottom: #4, #3, #4, #3, #4, #3, #2, #1, #2, #1, #2, #1. Change the settings so that the animation repeats/loops forever.
• Step #15: Choose how fast/slow you would like your blinkie to be, in one-hundredths-of-a-second.
• Step #16: Save your animated blinkie.

blinkie_iloveblinkies2.gif

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