#hildy-johnson

1. After opening Photoshop, make a new worksheet.  File > New (or Ctrl + N) ... a prompt box will appear.  Apply these settings.

Then, your workplace should look like this.

2. That's an empty slate so now, find the Paint Bucket Tool along the left panel. Pressing G on your keyboard will also trigger this. Select #ffffff as your background color. (or any color you wish to use)

3. Now to make things easier later, guides will be very useful in this project. Perform the guides listed below.

Orientation: Vertical / Position: 10px

Orientation: Vertical / Position: 235px

Orientation: Horizontal / Position: 23px

Orientation: Horizontal / Position: 335px

Orientation: Horizontal / Position: 150px

Orientation: Horizontal / Position: 195px

This is how your workplace should look like: 

4. Use a photo, reduce its size to 245px by 150px. (could be a .gif too if you wish) This will function as the header of your tumblr plus gif. Drag it across the slate, make sure that it is above your SECOND HORIZONTAL GUIDE.

5. Now fetch your Type Tool. You can also press T on your keyboard to trigger this. Now on the first horizontal guide, type the tumblr url like for example, hepburny. Tweak appearance by selecting the type layer, right-click and select Blending Options... I put a drop shadow over my text to make it more visible even in white.

6. Now put a blog title just above the THIRD HORIZONTAL GUIDE. Use any font, any color, any size (best to make them big and bold)

........ now for the difficult part.

7. What we're lacking is: the three boxes down, the blog description and the avatar icon. We're gonna start with the gifs now so select Window > Timeline if you haven't yet.

8. Add an additional guide to separate the DESCRIPTION and the BLOG CONTENT. View > New Guide... > Orientation: Horizontal, Position: 255px.

9. Key in a description with a preferably small font. 

10. AVATAR ICON: can be a circle or square. Width / Diameter: 56px. Create an outline for this avatar. Use the Ellipse Tool. Set it to Width: 70px. Make the Fill: / and Stroke: White - 2px. Put the image layer beneath the outline layer. Looks something like this. 

11. 3 GIF BOXES: Load separate gifs depending on how you'd like them to work. Resize to 66px x 66px. Tip: LIMIT NUMBER OF FRAMES TO 10-15. 

12. Create an outline for the boxes. Use Round Rectangle Tool. Apply settings. Make 3 & align them above the last horizontal guide.

13. Copy frames of the gifs, PASTE OVER SELECTION. Drag across the slate and rearrange gifs. Final output: