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Blinkie Basics

So blinkies come in many sizes but these measurements are considered the "standard size" [I have encountered this size the most as well.]

Width: 150 pixels

Height: 20 pixels

For my blinkies I create two frames for the border of the blinkie consisting of dots/shifted slightly from eachother: [I'm not sure if I am making sense so here are the raw border images.I use for my blinkies:

And said borders in gif form:

When I make a blinkie with more than 2 frames, I always make sure it is an even number so that the blinking of the border loops properly.

Feel free to use the raw images of the borders I use that I linked above, I just ask if you post any blinkies made with them that credit me and/or link back to my page.

How I make the images/frames of the Blinkie

Software I use:

Clip Studio Paint

I personally create the images in Clip Studio Paint but any art software that has a pixel brush/pen and layers will work.

Clip also has a built in textbox/text function so I type out the text on most of my blinkies rather than free hand it [other art software that has a textbox/text function that I can remember off the top of my head: MS Paint.]

Animating/Making images/frames into an gif

1. I export the whole blinkie as two frames/images and then use an site called https://ezgif.com/ to make them into a gif.

2. I go to their Gif Maker tab, upload the two images/frames under Upload      Images and then once they are uploaded I go down to Delay Time and set it      to 10. [Larger number makes it slower and smaller number makes it      faster, 10 is just what I like using.]

3. Finally under Effects I tick the box that says: "don't stack      frames", click the make a gif button then save the blinkie to my      computer with Save Image.

I’m not the best at explaining things/making things make sense so let me know if I need to try to explain something again or if there is something I didn’t write here that you want to know.

Good luck on your blinkie making! :]

Thank you [I'm replying from my main account]. I don't really use this account because I thought people don't really use stamps anymore but ir seems like I was wrong about that. This account seems to get a decent amount of support so I think I'll try to make some more pride stuff plus some more mlp shipping/pride stuff soon.