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.

By this time you should have a pretty nice starfield, but if you want to take it to the next level try to add some stardust and bright stars. Again there is no one way to make stardust. Create a new layer grab yourself a fuzzy brush set to "Screen" with the opacity about 20%. Try to use a few different shades of color. I found it easyer to go crazy and then come back with the eraser to remove what is needed. As far as a few larger stars I just used a round tip brush of various sizes with the "Hardness" set to zero.