Please help show me how to do these., using photoshop Options

[Bit me]

please help me with these:

+ how can i do something like kinda of of flower..?

+ how can i do these kind of text style like thw word "yangchenlin"?
+ and one more, how can i do the little circles like lights like in the pic..?

how to do the pic look blurs like these..?


please help!!, thanks in advance!=]

[lovescream]

the flower one, to me, looks like red-coloured brushes with added stuff on it to make it look like that. the tree branch might be drawn from scratch. otherwise, the pen tool is your friend (but it's my enemy. -SOB- I CANT USE ITTT) to draw anything. might wanna ask whoever made that for a confirmation.

the blur is in the tutorial
just duplicate the layer & then for the duplicated one, go to filter>>blur>>gagussian blur (or whatever. i dont have photoshop on and my memory sucks) and set it to a radius that's like 2-5 and set the blurred layer on overlay or softlight or whatever you want that looks good.

the circle one... it could be a circle brush set on multiply or something. it might not, i'm just thinking on top of my head :P

for the rainie banner, it looks like it could be done with layer masking. there's a tutorial explaining on how to do that.
i THINK what they did is typed what they wanted exactly.. pressed ctrl+t to turn it the way they wanted. then with whatever tool *i'm guessing rectangle tool lol* made a rectangle around it, and layer masked it.