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.
Three Minutes Max comes from a fun—yet very competitive—session at our annual CreativePro Week conference. Speakers have three minutes (max!) to wow the audience with the tip and win a prize for a lucky conference attendee.
This article was last modified on August 29, 2025
This article was first published on August 4, 2022
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