I'm working with PSP10 now, but there's actually no big difference between 9 and 10

   

Making a Superimposed Background

No outside filter required.

Open a background image you would like to work on. Go to "Effects" - "Distortion Effects" - "Wind". Apply "Wind" once from the left with 100 % and once again from the right with 100%.

Go to your Layers Palette and duplicate this Layer one time. Rotate it by 90 Degrees to the left or the right.

Duplicate this Layer one more time and go "Image" - "Mirror". Re-arrange the 3 Layers approximately like I did it (see image below).



Now go to your Layers Palette and "Merge Visible". You have 1 Layer left.

Go to "Effects" - "Edge Effects" - "Enhance".



It's time to make this Layer seamless. Go to "Effects" - "Image Effects" - "Seamless Tiling" with this settings:



Your result:



You're done!

TIP:
It also works perfect, if you use a tube instead a JPG-background image. The only difference to the mentioned above is, that you have to make more layers (with rotating and mirror/flip), so you have all of your transparent background covered afterwards.

Here are 2 more samples of this kind of background:






more to come!



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