I made it with PSP: &

Supplies:

Filters / Plugins:
Graphics Plus / Cross Shadow:
MuRa's Meister / Cloud:
PhotoEffex / Scanlines:
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:

Thank you Margit for your wonderful tubes:

01) File / New / 700 x 600 px / transparent

set your FGC to: light colour (#c0c0c0)
and your BGC to: dark colour (#404040)

Effects / Plugins / MuRa's Meister / Cloud:

Effects / Plugins / Graphics Plus / Cross Shadow:

Adjust / Add/Remove Noise / Add Noise:

02) Layers / New Raster Layer

activate your selection tool / custom selection:

set your FGC to: (#aa0016)

flood fill with your FGC

Deselect

activate your selection tool / custom selection:

flood fill with your FGC

Deselect

Effects / Plugins / PhotoEffex / Scanlines:

Effects / 3D Effects / Drop Shadow:
0 / 0 / 100 / 20 / black

Layers / Duplicate

Image / Mirror

Layers / Merge / Merge Down

03) Layers / New Raster Layer

Selections / Select all

Selections / Contract by: 60

flood fill selection with your BGC

set opacity of this layer to: 80

Adjust / Add/Remove / Add Noise:

Effects / 3D Effects / Drop Shadow:
1 / 1 / 100 / 1 / black
-1 / -1 / 100 / 1 / black

Deselect

04) open file: Smerfy- Brushes-49-56-PSP7 004.PspBrush

File / Export / Custom Brush:

close this file again; we don't need it anymore

back to your picture

Layers / New Raster Layer

activate your paint brush tool with this settings:

apply the brush with your FGC as shown below:

Layers / Duplicate

Image / Mirror

Layers / Merge / Merge down

Layers / Duplicate

Image / Flip

Layers / Merge / Merge down

Effects / 3D Effects / Drop Shadow:
1 / 1 / 100 / 1 / black

rename this layer: Cross Shadow

05) open tube: MMD_Si01053101.pspimage

Image / Resize: 60%

Adjust / Sharpness / Sharpen

Edit / Copy

Edit / Paste as new layer

Layers / Duplicate

activate layer under it

Adjust / Blur / Gaussian Blur: Radius 20

activate top layer again

Layers / Merge / Merge down

Image / Mirror

position as shown below:

06) Layers / New Raster Layer

Selections / Select all

flood fill with your BGC

Selections / Modify / Contract by: 5

Edit / Cut

Selections / Invert

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

Effects / 3D Effects / Inner Bevel:

Deselect

Layers / Duplicate

Image / Resize: 85% (all layers not checked)

Adjust / Sharpness / Sharpen

Layers / Arrange / Move down

07) activate layer: Raster 4 (woman)

open tube: butterfly overlay png.pspimage

Image / Resize: 50%

Edit / Repeat Resize

Image / Resize: 80%

Adjust / Sharpness / Sharpen

Edit / Copy

Edit / Paste as new layer

position as shown below:

Effects / 3D Effects / Drop Shadow:
1 / 1 / 100 / 1 / black

08) decorate your picture to your liking (TwilightBlossoms.psp)

activate your text tool

write your text (vector)

Layers / Convert to Raster Layer

add your watermark and name

09) activate layer: Cross Shadow

Effects / Plugins / Graphics Plus / Cross Shadow:

Edit / Copy Merged

open Animation Shop

Edit / Paste / As new animation

back to PSP

10) Edit / Undo Cross Shadow

Effects / Plugins / Graphics Plus / Cross Shadow:

Edit / Copy Merged

back to Animation Shop

Edit / Paste / After Current Frame

back to PSP

11) Edit / Undo Cross Shadow

Effects / Plugins / Graphics Plus / Cross Shadow:

Edit / Copy Merged

back to Animation Shop

Edit / Paste / After Current Frame

File / Save as.. *.gif