How to Animate Flashing Lights in Photoshop
Learn how to create a flashing lights animation from individual Photoshop layers.

In this Three Minutes Max video, Khara Plicanic shows off a really quick way to make animated flashing lights in Photoshop. By duplicating layers and making slight adjustments to each, she turns each layer into a frame, creating the animation that can be exported to a video format.
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This article was last modified on August 29, 2025
This article was first published on August 4, 2022