Animated Cursors
 
Lets start out with something easy.
  1. Click File
  2. Choose New Project
  3. Click the Cursor tab at the top
  4. Change the frames to 3
  5. Click Animated Cursor
  6. Click the Text Icon at the top and get yourself an image or Letter (just like you did for the creating icons and for the cursor, remembering you will have a pointing area, so nab something fitting to be used as a cursor)
  7. Prepare this image just as have before, changing its colors, however you want it.  Get it ready to save like you were going to create a regular icon or cursor.
  8. Now its ready to animated Click Edit Copy
  9. See your frames just above your image?  Click the second frame to activate it.
  10. Click Edit Choose Paste
  11. Now you can change colors, add to it, use dots of white to sparkle it, use your imagination but remember, a little bit goes along ways.
  12. Consider this, if you added something to it and plan for it to grow, you will need to copy this current frame to paste into the next empty frame box when you activate it.  If you are simply changing colors or dotting with dabs of color then pasting the one thats already copied to the windows clipboard is fine.
  13. When done with frame two, Click the empty frame three above to activate it and click Edit /Paste.
  14. Need to go back to one of the other frames to change something?  Click that frame at the top to activate it to make your changes.
  15. Click Icon and Choose Preview Animation Make any changes to your frames now that you want to change.
  16. Don't forget to set the hot spot.
  17. When done Click the .ani icon in your menu above to save it as an animated cursor.
  18. To use follow the same steps you did for the regular cursor.
For kicks if you want to see some awesome ones and have XP Open the horse animted cursor from the windows cursor folder.