::Pinwheel Effect Tutorial (Using PSP7 and AS3)

A Tutorial for making an icon like this (USING PSP7 & AS3):

01) Either create a new image (100x100... or whatever size you need for your icon) and make it pretty with brushes, or open a pre-made background. screen shot

02) Copy that image and paste it as a new animation in AS3.

03) Brighten or darken and play with the contrast of the image in PSP7 (Shift+B). 20 in each box usually works fine for me screen shot

04) Copy the brightened/contrasted image and paste it after the current frame in AS3. Or before, it's really up to you on which way you want the effect to go. Your AS3 should now look something like this: screen shot.

05) In AS3, make sure you have frame #1 selected and go to Effects~>Insert Image Transition. From the drop down menu, select Pinwheel. Click on Customize, select how many petals you want (I used 6). (screen shot)Click ok. Set the frames per second to 6, usually up to 10 will work for LJ, but any more than that, and it'll probably be over 40k. Click ok. Your AS3 should look something like this now screen shot.

06) Select all of the frames in that animation, and paste them (AS A NEW IMAGE, NOT MULTIPLE IMAGES) into PSP7.

07) Size the image you want to use to 100x100, and paste it on top of the animation you made as a new layer.

the rest of the steps are exactly the same as the other tutorial i did for you guys,

08) Use the free hand selection tool to erase any parts of the picture you don't want. Select the parts you wish not to use, and press the "delete" button on your keyboard (usually located to the right and down one from the backspace key). Your image should look something like this now screen shot.

09) Add a drop shadow (Effects~>3D Effects~>Drop Shadow) and set each to -1. screen shot. Depending on what side of the canvas your image is on, you may need to do a positive 1 as well, so just repeat the beginning of the step, but change -1 to 1.

10) Add any words you wish, for mine, I'm not going to, but you can, it's up to you!

11) Click on all the little glasses except the top two layers (which would be your picture, and the last layer of your animated image) and then copy them (merged) and paste them in Animation Shop as a new image.

12) Repeat the step for each frame of your background image. screen shot, screen shot, screen shot, and so on...

13) When you paste those images in Animation Shop, you're going to paste it BEFORE the current frame. It should look something like this (screen shot). Remember, these screen shots aren't from this icon; so it's a little different.

14) Save the animation with the optimizations shown here (screen shot).

15) You have a cool new icon with cool lightbars. //the end.

I hope it helped! <3. Let me know if you need something explained more clearly.