Photoworks environment question

If one of the Photowork Gurus here in this Forum would be willing to
take the time to explain the concept and procedure to produce a "home
made environment" in Photoworks, it would certainly be appreciated.
I have been told that in order to get more reflective qualities in my
renderings, that I needed to rotate the part around the environment. I
am assuming that what is meant by that is to keep changing the view of
my model until the reflections are the most favorable? The problem
with that is that the final position, (view), that my model is in when
I am attempting to render is the one I desire. Is it possible to
rotate the environment around the model instead? Maybe the home made
environment will allow this? I do know about changing environment
files, as I have accumulated quite a few of them, and I do experiment
with them as they do offer different color arrangements and different
reflective qualities. Any help that would be offered on this subject
would involve a great deal of gratitude.
Ben

 

To 'rotate' an image file to use as a spherical environment, I use
Filter>Other>offset.