Sunlight

Tube of choice - I am using the beautiful artwork of Zindy

which can be purchased from her store HERE

(note: I neglected to save a copy of my own tag, the example above was made by one of my forum members)

Nature Image HERE

Font of choice

PSP & Animation Shop

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This tutorial was written by Mizteeque on 28th October 2016 and assumes a working knowledge of psp

Written using psp9 but other versions should work just as well

Any similarity to other works is unintentional and purely coincidental

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Note:  This tutorial is an animated one. 

If you do not wish to animate then please follow the instructions in blue

Open nature image

Promote background layer to raster

duplicate layer 4 times 

Rename layers from bottom to top 1 - 5

hide layers 2, 3, 4 & 5

On layer 1

effects, illumination effects, Sunburst

color, white

brightness 100

horizontal 3

vertical 12

Rays - density 50, Brightness 50

circles brightness 100

Hide layer 1, 

On layer 2

Sunburst

brightness 76

horizontal 10

vertical 18

Rays - density 26, Brightness 17

circles brightness 75

Hide layer 2

On layer 3

Sunburst

brightness 61

horizontal 18

vertical 24

Rays - density 20, Brightness 17

circles brightness 50

Hide layer 3

On layer 4

Sunburst

brightness 50

horizontal 8

vertical 18

Rays - density 20, Brightness 17

circles brightness 40

Hide layer 4

On layer 5

Sunburst

brightness 42

horizontal 2

vertical 11

Rays - density 20, Brightness 10

circles brightness 40

Hide layers 2 - 5 again

copy merged

Open animation shop

paste as new animation

In PSP, Hide layer 1, open layer 2, copy merged

In AS, Paste after current frame 

make frame 1 active

effects, insert image transition

Choose Fade from drop down box

Animation frame - checked on both sides of preview pane

transition length - 0.5 secs

frames per second - 11 fps

Back to PSP, hide layer 2, open layer 3, copy merged

In AS, make last frame active (7), paste after current frame, 

Make frame 7 active, insert image transition again

Back to PSP, hide layer 3, open layer 4, copy merged

In AS, make last frame (13) active, paste after current frame,

Make rame 13 active, insert image transition again

Back to PSP, hidge layer 4, open layer 5, copy merged

In AS, make last frame (19) active, paste after current frame

Make layer 19 active, insert image transition again

Now goto Edit, select all, or hit crtl & A on your keyboard

copy

Now make frame 25 active, paste after current frame

Animation, reverse frames

Back in PSP

paste your tube as new layer

resize so it fits nicely in the middle of the track

I colorized mine to suit the tag

dropshadow

Add your name, copyright and license information

create new raster layer

floodfill with colour of choice

select all, contract by 3

hit delete on your keyboard

deselect

(if not animating then here is where you will merge all and save as jpg)

hide layers 1 - 5

copy merged

In AS, paste as new animation

duplicate to 50 frames

select all, copy

select all on your sunburst animation, paste into selected frames

dont move your mouse, just click and it should paste it exactly 

where you need it to

Save as gif

Another example from one of my forum members Deeva