Open an new image, 600 x 400, transparent background.
Make your your foreground color #19318B and your background color #8EE2EC

With your preset Shapes tool

We are going to use the Rectangle preset shape with the settings as below.

Start at 10,10 (numbers located down in the left bottom corner) drag it to 580,380.
Now with your magic wand, select the color part of the rectangle.
Flood fill this with the Linear Gradient with these settings.
Notice the Angle direction in the flood fill options.

If you would like, you can download the gradient here.
Blue Gradient
Go up to Image, Effect, Inner Bevel and use these settings.

Go to Selections, Select None
With the Preset Shapes tool, rectangle same settings as above, draw another rectangle
starting at 30, 30 and drag it down to 540, 340.
With your magic wand select the rectangle you just made.
Go to flood fill with the same gradient, but this time make the Angle 222
Go Image, Effects, Inner Bevel and use the same settings as above.
Go to Selections, Select None.
This is what it should look like now.

Add a new layer. 
With your draw tool

And you want to use these settings.

Now the brezier tool can be your friend...Just don't let it intimidate you.
Click on the 30, 200 and then drag it over to 200, 540.
Now go over to 130 (top #), 100 (side #) click once, then down to 450 (top #), 300(side #)
click once. 

And here is your curve when the clicking is done.

Now copy and paste as new layer. Do this four times. You should have five curves now.You can spread them out so you can see them a little better.

With your magic wand select one of the curves.
Flood fill it with a rainbow gradient.
Rainbow Gradient

Notice the Angle in the flood fill options.

Here is what your curves should look like now.

Now go up to Selections, Modify, Expand. When the window pops up, we want to expand by 2 pixels.
Now go up to Image, Gaussian Blur with these settings.

(We are hoping to get rid of the jaggies when we use the Gaussian Blur effect.
If you know of an easier way, please, oh please email me and let me know.)
Go to Selections, Select None.
With the curved line still having the marching ants,
Go up to Image, Effects, Inner Bevel and use these settings.

You want to flood fill each line a little differently, so here is what your gradient looks 
like when you click on the Edit in your floodfill tool option.

Now take your cursor and place it over the Red pen looking thing.

While hold down your left mouse button, drag the Red pen over to where the Orange
pen is, and move all the colors to the right. Your gradient should look like this.

Now you will want to do this with each different curved line.
Keep sliding the colored pens to the right until you have filled all 5 of your curved lines. This is what your frame should look like now with all the curves done.

***Now go to your layer palette and make the rectangle part of your frame invisible.
Merge all visible layers. (make sure you are on a visible layer before trying to merge all visible).***
I personally still didn't like the jaggies I had, so after I merged the curves, I went to blur one more time and then went to sharpen more. 

***Another Tip is you can use the deformation tool to squish it or make it longer and by doing the deformation tool, it does tend to blur a little more.

Now move your merged curve layer under the first layer. Move the rainbow to somewhere where it looks right. Now you can place a tube at one end of the rainbow. 
Merge all visible.

Now we are going to save it as a pfr extension. Make sure you put it in the
Paintshop Pro frames folder.
Now you have finished.
Here is my finished frame.

Tutorial by Leigh

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