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Step 1. Make Your Blinkies!

this seems obvious but you have to start off somewhere! I do mine in IbisPaint, but you can use whatever software you are used to!

ones where your graphic is going to be the background, you need to leave it transparent. if you intend for it to be a floatie, you just need to leave a space for where you intend to put your graphic!

Make all your frames!!

Step 2. Turn Your Base Into a GIF!

I use ezgif (god bless)

First you go to the GIF maker and input all your files.

I recommend numbering these since they are put in alphabetical order, but you can reorder them later.

once you get in you'll be greeted with a page like this:

Here you can change how fast your gif is under delay time. I usually put mine down to 11

after that you just press this!

AND BOOM YOU HAVE YOUR BASE! wasn't too hard, was it?

Step 3. Adding Your Graphic

now this is the tricky part, and where I really struggled for awhile, so I'll try to be as thorough and clear as possible!

First, grab whatever graphic you intend to use.

For this examples, I will be using this:

Next, go to Photopea.

note: i am unsure how to resize shit in photopea and do not intend to learn how to. I simply do this in ezgif with the resize option.

Now open your base file.

It should appear on a screen like this!:

After that, also go ahead and open your graphic the same way!

Once you do that, right click the folder containing the images for your graphic. You will see a "duplicate into..." option near the top.

press on that. It will open up a little menu for you to choose where to duplicate it into. You want to duplicate it into your base.

Select your base and press OK

Once you go back to your base file, you will see that it has duplicated into it.

for ones where it is intended to be the background, you have to move the folder containing the background down below the base.

Next, move your graphic into place!

We're almost done!!

Once you're satisfied with the placement, you need to go up to "layer", go all the way down to "animation", and then select "merge"

this will combine them into one folder

And last, but not least go to "file", go down to "export as", and then select "GIF"

AND BOOM! YOU DID IT! PRESS SAVE AND YOU HAVE YOUR SWAG ASS GIFS TO POST ON TUMBLR DOT COM BABYYYY

Now you too can be a cool kid with no life