I learned how to make blinkies...woo hoo...Blinkies for everybody !!! For this one I used 4 pictures.. Open up Gimp and make a new file.(for this pic blinkie, I made it 3inchs by 3 inches) The ones we see on blog pages are 300 pixels by 100 pixels..Open up what you want to use in your blinkie. Once you have it just the way you want it, in your layers window click on one layer at a time and duplicate it 6 times ( the more duplicates you have, the longer it 'blinks' ) Now in your layers window you will have pasted layers and the one on the very bottom is a background layer.Right Click on the pasted layer above the background layer, a new window will open, click on merge down, the 2 layers will become one layer. (if you miss this step, your blinkie will have a blank white layer in it. not pretty..ask me how i know this.lol.) Now in your blinkie window, click on filter, then move your curser on animation, click on Optimize for GIF...a new window pops up with your blinkie in it, click on filter, go to animation, click on playback..A new window opens up, click on play.. This is what your blinkie looks like..close this window, you now have 2 windows with blinkies in them, notice one has all the dup layers in it ( top of window says 14 layers) the other window has 3 layers in it, in this window click on file, save as, give your blinkie a name that ends with .gif..,a new window will pop up, Export File, click on save as animation, click export. then save to your computer.. I then uploaded my blinkie to photobucket and got a html code to post it on my blog... Hope this helps with making your own blinkies..I can hardly wait to see what y'all make.. So get busy and send me your blinkies.....
Happy Gimp scrappin'...
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