A photo of dawn from my front porch provides the background here.
Tiling is enabled with the
Center option to create symmetries.
Drops and
Bubbles with
Colorized Shading were applied in
several stages. Then
Stylus Tool strokes were used to stir up the
central area. Actually, the size of the source image used was 2048 by 1536
-- that was scaled down when loaded to fit within the 800 by 600 screen while the
effects were applied for this example. The
Upscale function was then used to recreate this same
image at the size of the original source image, 2048 by 1536. That large
image was saved and resized to produce the 800 by 600 picture that you see
here. Rendering such a high resolution picture will generally produce
noticably cleaner, better quality results.