Claudia Watkins




I have adapted this tutorial for PI 5 from an original made by Jane Braz for PSP.
She has beautiful Fans in her site.




With the Path Tool, 2D Object, draw a 1/4 circle. It doesn't matter the colour.
Click on the Transform Tool. Do the following:
Rotate 450 to the left.
Click on Distort and bring the left side up.
Bring the right side up to have a "kite-ish" shape.
Pull down a little the bottom part and pull up the top part to make it rounder.


Open the Edit menu > Fill > Image. Click on File and choose a nice background or if you want you can use mine. Just copy to your computer.

Right-click and save.

In "How to fill", click on Tile the Image. Click OK.
Choose a shape to make the lacey top edge.MaryLou has nice ones here or you can use a dingbat. I used letter "y" of the Design Dings3. Make it 3D round and apply a metal material to it.

Click on the easy Palette and on Wrap > Path Repeat (Deform)> Repeat Circle 2. You will get a circle of dinbats. Use the Mask mode to erase all but one. (Mask mode, paintbrush Trans=0 and Soft Edge=0)


Now, click on Web > Trim.
Right click on the canvas and duplicate it. Join them together and combine as a single object.



Move it till you have it on top of the shape.
With the Path Tool draw an ellipse, 3D Pipe with the same material you applied to the dingbat.

Using again the Mask Mode and keeping the ellipse active erase the bits that surpasses the triangular shape you have. Click on the dingbat and do the same to it.

Combine everything as a single object
Click on Web > Button designer > Any shape. Go to Bevel menu and choose the round one (second from left). Bevel size=10 Smoothness=2. Click OK.
Now you have the part that you will use to make your fan.
With the Transform Tool > Resize, and holding down the Shift key make it smaller. This is the size I used to make the fan.

After resizing it open the Effect menu > Blur and Sharpen > Sharpen > Options, change the level to 1. OK. Trim the object.

Make the object active and rotate it by 60o to the right.

Duplicate and rotate the new one by 18o to the left. Put on top of the first one and line it up so that the point is even with the point of the first one.


Keep on doing this for 6 times.

Open the Layer Manager in the Easy Palette and select all the 7 parts. Combine them as a single object.

With the Path Tool> Outline > Circle and using the same material you had for the dinbat, draw a circle that fits the pattern of your fan.


With the Mask mode erase the part of the circle that is out of the fan.
Draw a smaller one and do the same. Now you should have this. Combine everything as a single object.


Path Tool again, same material and using now the shape Arch 3, draw a 3D object. See the image for the settings



Using the Transform Tool > Perspective, change the shape to this. You have to close both top and bottom ends.



Rotate and resize it until you have it lined up with the edge of your fan.

Duplicate and rotate it to the other side.


Make a circle with the Path Tool and put it at the bottom center point of the fan.
For the string I used the Path Tool, shape Circular 1 and I reshaped it using the Distort tool. Send it to back.



Combine everything as a single object. Now you have your fan that you can save to your Object Library and use anywhere you want. I made a background with some fans I made.
You can add more things to your fan, play with it, change the sides, change the string.... just play around with it.





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