tutorial made with: & &

Supplies:

Filtros / Plugins:
Graphics Plus / Cross Shadow
L en K landksiteofwonders / L en K's Zitah
Alien Skin Xenofex 2 / Constellation
Animation Shop

You are welcome to take this nice sunflower with you, it shows you always where you are (just click and drag) Have Fun!

tutorial tested by:

01) File / New / 700 x 500 px / transparent

set your FGC to gradient: hawai_graphnco
flood fill with gradient:

Adjust / Blur / Gaussian Blur: Radius 25

02) open tube: mist97.pspimage

Edit / Copy

Edit / Paste as new layer

position as shown below:

03) open tube: forme1.pspimage

Edit / Copy

Edit / Paste as new layer

Effects / Texture Effexts / Blinds:
colour: #95edf9

04) open tube: TCH-MMax-Hawai-01.pspimage

Image / Resize: 75%

Image / Mirror

Adjust / Sharpness / Sharpen

Edit / Copy

Edit / Paste as new layer

position as shown below:

Effects / 3D Effects / Drop Shadow:
10 / 10 / 50 / 25 / black

05) Image / Add borders / 1 px / black

Layers / Promote Background Layer

Imagen / Canvas Size:

06) Layers / New Raster Layer

set your FGC to: #95edf9
and your BGC to: #324da4

flood fill with this gradient:

Layers / Arrange / Move down

Adjust / Blur / Gaussian Blur: Radius 25

Effects / Plugins / Graphics Plus / Cross Shadow:
default settings

Effects / Plugins / L en K landksiteofwonders / L en K's Zitah:

Effects / Edge Effects / Enhance

Effects / Image Effects / Seamless Tiling:
default settings

07) activate top layer again

Layers / New Raster Layer

set your FGC to gradient: hawai_graphnco
flood fill with gradient:

open file: sg_icy-blast-frame.jpg

minimize it; back to your picture

Layers / New Mask Layer / From Image:

Layers / Merge / Merge Group

Effects / Edge Effects / Enhance

Effects / 3D Effects / Inner Bevel:

08) open tube: TCH-MMax-Hawai-02.pspimage

Image / Resize: 85%

Adjust / Sharpness / Sharpen

Edit / Copy

Edit / Paste as new layer

position as shown below:

Effects / 3D Effects / Drop Shadow:
10 / 10 / 50 / 25 / black

09) open tube: texte_hawaii_girl.pspimage

Edit / Copy

Edit / Paste as new layer

position to your liking

Effects / 3D Effects / Drop Shadow:
10 / 10 / 50 / 25 / black

add your watermark and name

10) Layers / New Raster Layer

Selections / Select all

flood fill selection with your dark BGC

Selections / Modify / Contract by: 3

Edit / Cut (delte key)

Deselect

11) activate bottom layer

Effects / Plugins / Alien Skin Xenofex 2 / Constellation:

Edit / Copy Merged

open Animation Shop

Edit / Paste / As new Animation

back to PSP

12) Edit / Undo Constellation

Effects / Plugins / Alien Skin Xenofex 2 / Constellation:
hit: Random Seed

back to A/S

Edit / Paste / After Current Frame

13) back to PSP

repeat last step 12

Animation Shop:

File / Save as... *.gif