please help.......this is driving me nucking futs!!!

i am trying to create a similar effect to the one in the link below. i have tried everything that i can think of, but to no avail. i am not wanting to recreate this persons work or anything, but i love the effects in the piece. if anyone knows how to do this or knows of any tutorials i would greatly appreciate their help. i just need a good solid starting off point from which i can develop my own works and the same old 8 tutorials that every page has on how to make spheres and rings arent helping me any. thanks in advance for any info.

check this out

looks like nothing but gradients and layers on top of each other, later on copied many times.... What´s so special?

labia i mean yea just repeated

Paavo- first i want to thank you for replying. i figured that it was just gradients and many layers, and i have tried that, but have yet to come up with anything that even remotely looks right. that is why i was hoping for a more detailed explanation, but not necessarily a step by step walk through of the process. there is nothing particularly special about it, but being that i am not a PS guru, accomplishing this is not necessarily a simple task. i appreciate you taking the time to offer your insight and i hope that perhaps you or someone else can offer any more information that might help me to achieve this.

peace,
kryptyk

I love plug-ins. There, I said it

Here is a link to a free plug-in that will help you make something similar (or at least some of the effect) to the picture you like so much.

http://www.geocities.com/thephotoshopping/Photoshop_Plugins/DragonFly/DragonFly.htm

I think that this plug-in and some soft colors, some duplication and mirror (flip Horizontal/Vertical) will get you there

what language is that in?

pixelmax- thank you for the link. i downloaded the plug in and it is pretty badass, but when it comes to creating the shapes and such that i need, it is pretty much a shot in the dark with plugin. very cool nonetheless and i am still having fun with it anyways. i appreciate the help.

peace,
kryptyk