Creating a Sparkle Fan By Lorraine McAdams You can use this fan as an accent on a tag or you can create a tag around the fan itself. Materials A misted image A nice round lace White sparkle tube Corners and accents Plug-in Filters Unlimited 2.0 Let’s get started We will build the frame first Open a 450 by 450 transparent canvas Flood fill with a nice background that will complement you misted image Selections/select all/contract by 20/then selections invert (this will give you the start of your frame) Add a new raster layer (the marching ants are still in place) Flood fill this new raster layer (within the marching ants) with a color that is a darker shade from your image Staying on that layer go to Effects/Texture Effects/Mosaic-Glass with these settings: Now with the marching ants still in place go to Effects/Inner Bevel with these settings: With the marching ants in place go to Effects/plug-ins/ Filters Unlimited 2.0/Button frames and choose Glass Frame #3 with these settings: Frame size (slide slider down to 25) Shading (slide slider down to 32) Again keep marching ants in place repeat the same inner bevel settings as above. Marching ants still in place add a drop shadow with these settings: Repeat drop shadow with positive 1 Selections/Select none - Your frame is done! Copy and paste as a new raster layer your misted image resize to fit inside your frame and place the image to the right. Sharpen image one time. Slide this layer under your frame layer and above your background layer You should now have 3 layers your frame, your image and your background Set this PSP image aside for now Open a transparent image 450 by 450 Copy and paste your lace or shape that has a center transparent hole or use your selections tool to draw a center and hit delete to make a center hole HINT: make sure your layer is a raster layer before hitting delete to make the center hole. Add a new raster layer Flood fill with a color or pattern you want for the center hole and that compliments your shape colors -Slide this layer below your image. On your image shape layer use your magic wand to tap an area outside of your shape You will see the marching ants are now around you shape and around the edge of you image Highlight your background layer Your layer palette should look like below: Make sure you have you background layer selected and hit delete once Layers merge visible With your freehand selections tool from the center of your merged image draw up past your shape to create a 3 sided triangle ending back at the center Go selection and select Invert then hit delete once You now have the first section of you fan I have on a new layer drawn out a triangle with my selections shape tool and flood filled that triangle with a complimentary color and slid it under the fan triangle shape layer and used my deform tool to make it fit so there was a border to the triangle fan slice. I also added an inner bevel to the solid triangle layer to give it depth. Yours may or may not need this added step. Merge any layers you may have in your layers palette Copy and go back to your fame layer that was set aside and paste as a new layer Your triangle fan slice should be the top layer Close this layer off Add corners, text or any accents you want now to the layers below your triangle fan layer. Merge all layers except the triangle fan slice layer. Now you must decide how you want your fan to open. (straight or on an angle like mine is) Use your deform tool to move the fan slice shape into place where you want your fan to start to open from making sure that you re-size your fan slice to match your image. With your first fan slice in place add a new raster layer Create a small circle with your Preset Shapes tool Covert this layer to raster layer and add any inner bevel This is the center of your fan (the button) and should remain as your top layer Highlight your fan slice layer and duplicate once Go to image Free Rotate and on this duplicate layer rotate 20 degrees to the right Continue duplicating the “first fan layer” each time and free rotating 20 degrees added to the last rotation used and then sliding that new rotated layer to the top of your layers palette (under the button layer) till you have a completed fan. Ex: my second fan piece was rotated 20 degrees, the next was rotated 40 degrees, then the next rotated 60 degrees and so on till you fan is completed. Use your deform move tool to move each fan pieces into place (under the button layer) You can also slide you layers in you palette up and down to get different layer effects to your fan. Close off all fan layers except the fist fan layer You should have open in your layers palette your background image with everything merged now except your fan slices and your button center. Merge your background image and first fan slice with the button center as your top layer and copy. Open AS Paste as a new animation. Go back to PSP and undo merge visible and leave open your first fan slice and now open your second fan slice. Merge all visible. Copy and paste in AS after the current frame Continue to open each fan slice one at a time merging each time and copying leaving the previous fan slices open till all fan slices are open and pasted in AS Leave this animation in AS open. Go to PSP where all your layers are open shift D to duplicate and save your original. Working on your duplicate image now Merge all layers Duplicate 3 times Close off your top 2 layers and on your bottom layer add your white sparkle tube to your fan. Make sure to resize the sparkle to be consistent with your fan size Add your sparkle randomly to each of the remaining layers on the fan Close off all but your fist layer Copy and go back to AS and paste after current frame which was the last frame of fan without the sparkle on it. Go back to PSP and close the first layer and open the second Copy that layer and paste that after the current frame in AS Do the same with your third layer in PSP Go back to the first layer in PSP and repeat the copy and paste into AS using the paste after the current frame. With each set of the 3 merged layers in PSP copy and paste each layer in order 3 more times. Doing each layer one at a time for a total of 4 sets of the 3 merged layers each. In As I have set my frame rate for the first part of the fan opening to a rate of 70 until the very last frame of my fully open fan which I have set that frame to a rate of 90 All the fan frames with the sparkle are set at a rate of 10 View your animation and then save if you are happy with your animation You may have to adjust your frame rate some depending on how many fan slices you have. The fewer fan slices the higher the frame rate is needed. I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial! Copyright 2009 Lorraine McAdadams Written for the Le Cafe D'Amis Group. All Rights Reserved.