I made it with PSP: &

Supplies:

Filters / Plugins:
Graphic Pluss / 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
and your BGC to: dark colour

flood fill with this gradient:

Adjust / Blur / Gaussian Blur: Radius 20

02) Layers / New Raster Layer

flood fill with your dark BGC

Layers / Load/Save Mask / Load Mask from disk:

activate your magic wand tool

select the circle as shown below:

activate layer: Raster 2

Selections / Modify / Expand by: 1

Edit / Cut

Deselect

Layers / Merge / Merge Group

Effects / Plugins / Graphics Plus / Cross Shadow:

Effects / 3D Effects / Drop Shadow:
1 / 1 / 100 / 1 / colour: #77465B

Effects / Texture Effects / Texture:

Image / Resize: 90 % (all layers Not checked)

position as shown below:

03) open tube: MMCreation_Si0170309_Ostern.pspimage

Image / Resize: 60%

Adjust / Sharpness / Sharpen

Edit / Copy

activate bottom layer

Edit / Paste as new layer

position as shown below:

activate top layer again

Layers / Merge / Merge Down

04) open tube: MMCreation_0110309_Ostern.pspimage

Image / Resize: 90%

Adjust / Sharpness / Sharpen

Edit / Copy

activate bottom layer

Edit / Paste as new layer

position as shown below:

05) open tube: MMCreation_0290309.pspimage

Edit / Copy

Edit / Paste as new layer

position as shown below:

Layers / Duplicate

activate layer under it

Adjust / Blur / Gaussian Blur: Radius 20

activate top layer again

Layers / Merge / Merge Down

06) open tube: MMCreation_0220309_Ostern.pspimage

Image / Resize: 50%

Adjust / Sharpness / Sharpen

Edit / Copy

Edit / Paste as new layer

position as shown below:

Layers / Duplicate

activate layer under it

Adjust / Blur / Gaussian Blur: Radius 20

activate top layer again

Layers / Merge / Merge Down

07) Layers / New Raster Layer

Selections / Select all

Selections / Modify / Contract by: 10

Selections / Invert

flood fill with this gradient:

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

Layers / Duplicate

Effects / 3D Effects / Inner Bevel:

Deselect

activate layer under it

Effects / Texture Effects / Mosaic - Glass:

08) activate top layer again

activate text tool

write your text (vector)

Layers / Convert to Raster Layer

add your watermark and name

Layers / Merge / Merge Visible

09) Edit / Copy

open Animation Shop

Edit / Paste / As new animation

Edit / Paste / After Current Frame or hit: (fourteen times)

we have 15 animation frames now

open gif: two-butterflies-white.gif

Edit / select all

Edit / Copy

back to your 15 animation frames

Edit / Select all

Edit / Paste / Into selected frame

position to your liking

10) back to your gif

Edit / Select all

Animation / Reverse Frame

Edit / Copy

close the gif file; back to your 15 animation frames

Edit / Paste / Into selected frame

position to your liking

File / Save as... *.gif