Lighthouse picture - Right click and save file to your harddrive.

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Promote the background layer to a raster layer.

Duplicate this layer twice - you will have three layers altogether.

Select the first layer and hide the second and third layers.

Enlarge your image so that you have a clear working area of the top of the lighthouse.  You can quickly enlarge your work area by hitting the + button on your keypad.

With the Lasso tool, carefully select the glass windows and catwalk around the top of the light house.  These were my settings. 

I used Edge Seeker in PSP9 - but Point-to-Point or Smart Edge will work just as well for this selection.  Finish your selection by double clicking when you are close your beginning point.  Your tower should look similar to this.

Click on Effects, Plugins, EyeCandy 4, CORONA - Use the settings below for Layer 1. Change the main color box by ticking on it and click on a yellow in the lighthouse. 

Click OK.

Hide layers 1 and 3, choose Layer 2.

Click on Effects, Plugins, EyeCandy 4, CORONA - Adjust the size of the glow - and change the color to a darker yellow.  Click OK.

Hide Layers 1 and 2 and Select Layer 3.

Eye Candy Corona ONE MORE TIME. Change your settings to match the illustrations and your yellow to a brighter yellow than the previous by clicking on the yellow box and choosing one of Windows yellows.

Click OK.

Unhide all three of your layers.  Deselect your marching ants and save your file as a .psp image.  Make sure to save in PSP7 format.  I like to save to my desktop so it is easy to find the file I will re-open in Animation Shop.

OPEN ANIMATION SHOP.  Open your lighthouse.psp file in Animation Shop.  This is what you will see. 

Pay special attention to the numbers (F:1 D:10) at the bottom of the frame window.  This tells you that you are looking at Frame 1 - speed 1/10th of a second.  I changed the speed to make it more like a glow than a blinkie.  You do that by clicking on the frame, then on Animation - Frame Properties.

Change the speed from 10 to 30.
 

Click on Frame 2 and 3 consequently to select each frame and change the settings to 30/100th of a second.

Click View:  Animation.  You will see what your animated lighthouse will look like.

Click the Save Icon in the tool bar and choose a name for your animated lighthouse.  The optimization wizard will take you through several frames.  Use the default settings for all until you come to FINISH.

Open your animation in your graphics viewer and give yourself a big pat on the back!