Make your own blink and burst blinkies

by kim@pixelbit.com

Open an new image, transparent, 33 X 33

Magnify to 800 so you can see what you're doing.

Set the foreground color to the color of your choice and make straight lines
through your image as shown below.

Duplicate your layer 9 times for a total of 10 identical layers

rename them 1 thru 5 and again 1 thru 5

The reason they are numbered like this is because each number layer will have the same settings
This will make it easier for you to keep reach of your progress.

Select the top 1 layer.
With your selection tool active, CTRL + A to select all
Selections > Modify > Contract by 12

Press Delete. DO NOT DESELECT
Select the bottom 1 layer. invert. press delete and invert again.

Select the top 2 layer

Selections > Modify > Expand > 3
Press delete.
Select the bottom 2 layer, Invert. delete, invert again.

Select the top 3 layer

Selections > Modify > Expand > 3
Press delete.
Select the bottom 2 layer, Invert. delete, invert again.

Select the top 4 layer

Selections > Modify > Expand > 3
Press delete.
Select the bottom 2 layer, Invert. delete, invert again.

Select the top 5 layer

Selections > Modify > Expand > 3
Press delete.
Select the bottom 2 layer, Invert. delete, invert again.

NOW you can deselect.

Save your image in psp format.
Open Animation shop.

Click File > Preferences > General program preferences > layered Files.
Be sure that Keep layers as separate frames is checked, click ok.

and open your image.
You should have 10 frames

Press CTRL + A to select all

Click Animation > reverse frames.

Your frames will look like this.

Select the last 5 frames.

Press CTRL + X to CUT. You now have only 5 frames.

Click on the first frame. Edit > Paste > Before current frame.

Your frames will look like this now.

Click View > Animation. A new window will open displaying your animation>
Your animation should look like this.

Click File > New

The size of the new image is your choice.

Duplicate your image till you face FAR more frames then you will actually need. I had 65 frames.

Select your blinkie. CTRL + A to select all.
Select your new image. Make sure the slider bar at the bottom is all the way to the left so that you can see frame 1.

CTRL + E to place your FIRST blinkie.

With all frames still selected. press your CTRL button and click on frame 1.

This will EXCLUDE frame 1 from the selected frames.

CTRL + E again to place the second blinkie.

****HINT****

The first frame of the blinkie will paste to the first SELECTED frame. Since frame 1 is NOT selected, it will paste to frame 2.

When the second blinkie is in place press CTRL and Deselect frame 2 so that frame 3 is the first selected frame.

Paste the third blinkie.

You may need to move the slider bar over as you paste so that you can see the first selected frame.
When you have pasted all of your blinkies, move the scroll bar to the right slowly until you can see the last frame of the last blinkie

The image below shows that to be frame 28 on my divider.

Delete all of the frames AFTER that. So I will delete 29 thru 65.

Here is how to do that.

Click on the first frame to be deleted (in my case frame 29)
move the slider bar all the way to the right so the last frame is visible.
Hold your SHIFT key and click on the last frame.
That will select all of your unneeded frames. Press your delete key.

If your blinkie is moving too fast, select all, right click and select frame properties. Change the number there to 20.

here is the difference

Spend unchanged	Speed Changed to 20

save.

To add your blinkie to an image, please refer to my Add Animation to a still image tutorial.

I hope you have enjoyed my tutorial.

If you have any questions or comments
email me at:
kim@pixelbit.com