This tutorial was derived from a Greg Martin Photoshop tutorial. Special thanks goes to Greg for allowing me to write this tutorial for Paint Shop Pro 9. Create an amazing realistic starfield with Paint Shop Pro. There are alot of great things to learn from this tutorial, give it a try and show me what you came up with.

Your starfield should be looking pretty sad at this point so flatten your image Layers > Merge > Merge All (visible) grab your "Clone" tool and get creative. Again there is no right or wrong way to do this, much like nature its random. This is where you will tell the story of your starfield with dark spaces and star clusters. A few guidelines would be not to clone stars from the edge of your image, or do not clone stars close to your source, and finally try setting the "Blend Mode" of the "Clone" tool to both normal and screen this will give the starfield more depth.