I made it with PSP: &

Supplies:

Filters / Plugins:
MuRa's Meister / Cloud:
Fantastic Machines / PaintEngine:
FM Tile Tools:
Graphics Plus / Cross Shadow:
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 550 px / transparent

set your FGC to: light colour (#a5c1c1)
and your BGC to: dark colour (#42544b)

Effects / Plugins / MuRa's Meister / Cloud:

Effects / Plugins / Fantastic Machines / PaintEngine:

Effects / Plugins / FM Tile Tools / Blend Emboss:
default settings

02) Layers / Duplicate

Image / Resize: 80% (all layers NOT checked)

Adjust / Sharpness / Sharpen

Effects / 3D Effects / Drop Shadow:
0 / 0 / 100 / 20 / black
shadow on new layer: checked!!!

rename this shadow layer: Constellation 01

03) activate top layer: Copy of Raster 1

Layers / New Raster Layer

activate selection tool / custom selection:

flood fill with light FGC

Selections / Modify / Contract by: 1

flood fill with dark BGC

Selections / Modify / Contract by: 1

Effects / Plugins / MuRa's Meister / Cloud:

Effects / Plugins / FM Tile Tools / Blend Emboss:
default settings

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

Deselect

Layers / Duplicate

Image / Mirror

Layers / Merge / Merge Down

Effects / 3D Effects / Drop Shadow:
0 / 0 / 100 / 20 / black
shadow on new layer: checked!!!

rename this shadow layer: Constellation 02

04) activate top layer: Raster 2

open tube: MMD_0342801.pspimage

Edit / Copy

Edit / Paste as new layer

set blend mode to: Luminance (Legacy)
and opacity to: 60%

Layers / Arrange / Move Down

05) open tube: Objects0016.pspimage

Image / Resize: 80%

Adjust / Sharpness / Sharpen

Edit / Copy

Edit / Paste as new layer

Image / Mirror

position as shown below:

set blend mode to: Luminance (Legacy)
and opacity to: 60%

Layers / Duplicate

activate layer under it: Raster 4

set opacity to: 100

Adjust / Blur / Gaussian Blur: Radius 20

activate layer over it

Layers / Merge / Merge down

06) activate top layer: Raster 2

open tube: MMDesignz_Si 315260.pspimage

Image / Resize: 75%

Adjust / Sharpness / Sharpen

Edit / Copy

Edit / Paste as new layer

position as shown below:

Layers / Duplicate

activate layer under it: Raster 5

Adjust / Blur / Gaussian Blur: Radius 20

activate layer over it

Layers / Merge / Merge down

07) Layers / New Raster Layer

Selections / Select all

flood fill with light FGC

Selections / Modify / Contract by: 1

flood fill with dark BGC

Selections / Modify / Contract by: 1

Effects / Plugins / MuRa's Meister / Cloud:

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

Selections / Modify / Contract by: 15

Edit / Cut

flood fill with dark BGC

Selections / Modify / Contract by: 1

flood fill with light FGC

Selections / Modify / Contract by: 1

Edit / Cut (delete key)

Deselect

08) open tube: Schriftzug.pspimage

Edit / Copy

Edit / Paste as new layer

position to your liking

Layers / Duplicate

activate layer under it and rename it: Constellation 03

don't forget your watermark and name

09) activate layer: Constellation 01

Effects / Plugins / Alien Skin Xenofex 2 / Constellation:

activate layer: Constellation 02

Effects / Plugins / Alien Skin Xenofex 2 / Constellation:
same settings

activate layer: Constellation 03

Effects / Plugins / Alien Skin Xenofex 2 / Constellation:
same settings

Edit / Copy Merged

open Animation Shop

Edit / Paste / As new Animation

back to PSP

10) Edit / Undo Constellation

Edit / Undo Layer Selection

Edit / Undo Constellation

Edit / Undo Layer Selection

Edit / Undo Constellation

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

activate layer: Constellation 02

Effects / Plugins / Alien Skin Xenofex 2 / Constellation:
same settings

activate layer: Constellation 03

Effects / Plugins / Alien Skin Xenofex 2 / Constellation:
same settings

Edit / Copy Merged

open Animation Shop

Edit / Paste / As new Animation

12) back to PSP

repeat step 10 & 11

Animation Shop:

File / Save as... *.gif