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First of all open the image in photoshop and apply layer mask to it to hide the background.

Make a new layer. Set the foreground colour to #002156 and background colour to black. Now choose gradient tool and apply the first gradient vertically on the new layer.

Go to the channels palette and create a new channel by clicking on the icon circled in red at the bottom of the layers palette. Press D to reset the foreground and background colours. Now go to Filters > Render > Difference Clouds. Now press Ctrl F to reaaply the previous filter. Now press Ctrl T and drag the lower edge upwards almost upto the middle and then press Enter. Now take a large soft brush and paint the lower edge to remove the hard edges.

Now create a new channel in the same way and then go to Filters > Sketch > Chrome. Kepp the details to 0 and the smoothness 10. You can alter the values if you wish. Now press Ctrl T and drag the lower edge upwards almost upto the middle and then press Enter. Now take a large soft brush and paint the lower edge to remove the hard edges.

Now go back to layers palette, make a new layer and rename it as water. Now again go back to the channels palette and Ctrl Click on alpha 1 channel (on which we applied Difference clouds). If you want you can adjust the brightness by Pressing Ctrl L and applying levels on this channel. Now go back to the layers Palette and click on the water layer and fill white colour in the selection. Now change the blending mode of this layer to overlay.

Make a new layer. Now go back to the channels palette and Ctrl Click on alpha 2 channel (on which we applied Chrome). Now go back to the layers Palette and click on the new layer and fill white colour in the selection. Now change the blending mode of this layer to overlay. If this layer is not visible properly the duplicate this laye till you can see it properly and the merge them together.

Rename the new layer to water 2. Now make a new layer and rename it as light. Now take a large brush with soft edges and paint white colour in the middle on the top edge as shown in the image.

Now load the selection of alpha 1 channel as in step 5 and make a new layer in the layers palette, rename this layer as rays and fill white colour. Now go to Filter > Blur > Rdial Blur, and apply the following settings
Amount = 100%
Blur Method = Zoom
Quality = Best
And lift the center to the point where you have the source of light in the image. Now Press Ctrl T and use perspective to concentrate the rays at the top. and use the eraser tool (soft large brush) to remove any hard edges and unwanted rays. If you want intense rays thn duplicate the layer by pressing Ctrl J and then merge all the rays layers.

Now move both the light and rays layer below the water layers as shown in the image.

Minimise this document and open a new document of 8 by 8 inches with black background and make a new layer and fill with black colour. Now go to Filters > Render > Lense Flare and apply the following settings as shown in the image.

Now press Ctrl T and sqeeze the image so that the lense flare becomes elliptical. Now duplicate the layer change its blending option to lighten and rotate it to 45 degrees. Repeat this step till you get the shape shown in the image.

Merge all the layers by pressing Ctrl+Shif+E.

Now press Ctrl T and drag any corner control point while pressing down the Shift key to enlarge the image uniformally in the same proportion so that the lense flare covers almost the whole canvas.
Now go to Filter > Distort > Wave and apply the following settings as shown in the image or You can play around with the values to create any other pattern.

Duplicate this layer and go to Filter > Distort > Twirl and keep the angle at 346 degrees.

In the same way duplicate the background layer again and apply twirl and this time keep the value to -346 degrees. Change the blending option of both the top layers to lighten.

Merge all the layers by pressing Ctrl+Shif+E. Now desaturate the image by pressing Ctrl+Shif+U.

Now Apply Levels to improve the brightness and contrast of the image.

Now come back to the original tulips document. Bring the tulips layer on the top. Now apply an

adjustment layer of Hue/Saturation and apply the following settings:
Hue = 211
Saturation = 100
Lightness = -2

Now fill the masking layer of this adjustment layer by 50% grey (#959595).

Now drag the layer we created in the new document to this document and adjust it by using transform tool (Ctrl T) and rotating and resizing. Hide the unwanted parts by applying layer mask.Keep this layer below the tulips layer.

Now duplicate this layer and bring it on top of the tulips layer and again paint the unwanted areas of this layer with black in the layer mask.

Now apply another adjustments layer of Hue/Saturation and apply the following settings:

Hue = 205
Saturation = 20
Lightness = 0

Duplicate the tulips layer. Ctrl+click on the layer mask thumbnail and then click on the tulip layer then press Ctrl+Shift+I to invert the selection and fill white. Now double click on the tulip layer thumbnail to bring up the layer style. Now apply outer glow.

Now apply the following settings for outer glow:

Now apply the following settings for inner glow:

And here is the final result…..
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