Animated Icons with Photobie

When making an animated icon, be sure you have a specific theme in mind. For this tutorial, the theme will be "He loves me, He loves me not."

1. Open your photobie and add all your pre-made icons on your canvas by clicking on "edit=>paste as new layer". Once you have added all your icons, your Layer Manager should loook like so:
   
2. Once you've added all your icons, click on GIF_Animation=>Animation Control Panel. This window should pop-up:
   
   Edit the delay field to 1000 and more as shown on the image above, if you want your icon texts to be read, if not, you can use 999 and less. Be sure you change the delay field for each frame.
3. To preview your animation, click on the green play button on the right side of the animation control panel. When you are happy with the result, save it by clicking on the blue disk.
   
4. Now, you should have an animated icon such as this:
   

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