Snowball background using psp7
Click this tile to receive the .pspimage you will need to complete this tutorial.  Unzip and open in psp.  Don't use the tile you see on this webpage.  This will turn out differently in different versions of psp.

1.  Activate your eraser, size 150 and click in the center of your image removing the entire center. coordinates in lower right corner 100/100
2.  Go to colors, adjust gamma 5. 
3.  Duplicate the layer, and we will work on the bottom layer first, so you may close (click the x on the right in the layer palette) to get this layer out of your way temporarily.
4.  With the bottom layer the active layer, go to effects, geometric, spikyhalo, settings:  horizontal 5, vertical 100, radius 25, amplitude 100, frequency 50, ok.
5.  Go to image, flip and apply spikyhalo again with same settings, ok.
6.  Go to effects, geometric, curlyq's settings:  columns 4, rows 4, size 100, strength 9, either direction, ok.
7.  Make top layer active, go to effects, reflection, feedback, setting:  opacity 92, intensity 91, horizontal 72, vertical 80, ok.
8.  Effects, geometric curly q's same settings as before. 
9.  Apply curly q's once more.
10.  Effects, geometric, circle 3 times.
Layers, merge visible
11.  Go to effects, simple, topbottom wrap, ok.
12.  Go to effects, simple, pizzaslice morror, ok.
13.  Go to effects, simple, diamonds.  Repeat this again.
If your graphic has gotten too dark you might want to use color, adjust, gamma 5 again. 
You can save this now as a psp image or tube and apply it on top of a solid color as you might a lacy pattern, or add a layer, drag it to the bottom and flood with your color of choice and merge.  You can use colorizer on it to change colors to make other tiles.
This background is the tile with merge all placing it on a white background.  The tile at the top was flooded with purple on the bottom layer then merged. 

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Click HERE to go to download page for simple filters.  If this link doesn't work, do a google search for Simple Filters.
This tutorial was written and placed here by sandisuetoo 8-31-2003.  You may use this tutorial as you see fit.