Blog Blinkie 2

This tutorial was written by Sharon A on March 21, 2012

For more info read my TOU

Supplies Needed

An element of your choice

Animation shop

Plugins of your choice

On this blinkie we will be adding a fade effect

Open a new transparent canvas 300x100, we will resize later

Floodfill with a color of your choice

Apply plugins for the look you want

You'll want a large font, the final size is small so you need it almost as wide as your blinkie

Use one layer for each word, align center & add any effects you want

Open your element & add any effects you want, resize it as needed

Copy & paste your background layer into animation shop

Multiply until you have at least 12 frames

Copy & paste your first word into animation shop as a new animation

Effects>Insert Image Transition

Default settings, effect fade

You'll have 11 frames

Select all

Reverse frames

Copy

Deselect

Activate frame 11

Paste after current

Reverse frames

Deselect

You will need to leave at least 2 plain background frames

(add more of these frames as needed)

Repeat the above steps with your element

Repeat again with your next word

Make sure you add the element after each word

Don't forget to leave 2 or more plain background frames in between each

Resize all layers to 50%

Save as gif & you're all done!

I hope you enjoyed my tutorial

I would love to post your © compliant result, just email it to me with the tut name in the subject line

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