Have a Happy Halloween

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This tutorial was made in PSP X2, but can also be made in the other versions.

For this lesson you need Animation Shp (AS)

and the following plugins:

AP 01 (Innovations) - Lines - Silverlining

Ulead Effects - Gif-X 2.0

You can download the plugins

you can download the materials.

It contains: 10 tubes - 1 color picture - 1 mask.

Place the mask in your mask folder.

The tubes are by Candice B, HJR Design, Mou and Sorensen Designs.

Thank you so much for the beautiful tubes, picture and mask.

The other tubes are unknown to me.

If they are yours, please let me know so I can give you the proper credits.

Please don't remove the watermark.

The Copyright belongs to the original artist.

Let the credit to the maker.

Step 1

Open the materials in PSP - minimize them for now.

Set your foreground color to #fec84a (or at your choice).

Set your background color to #9d3c12 (or at your choice).

Open a transparent image of 1000 x 800 pixels.

Set your foreground to gradient 'Foreground-background' - Linear - Angle 45 - Repeats 1 - Invert checked.

Flood fill your image with this gradient.

Step 2

Layers - New raster layer.

Flood fill this layer with your foreground color.

Layers - New mask layer - From image - find mask 'halloweenmaske05_sigrid4' - with these settings:

Layers - Merge - Merge group.

Effects - Edge effects - Enhance - repeat 1x.

Step 3

Copy tube 'wolken'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place the clouds in the upper right corner.

Step 4

Copy tube 'Halloween Faline25'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Image - Resize - 125% - All layers not checked.

Place her upper left.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor 3 - Opacity 50 - Blur 4 - color black.

Step 5

Layers - New raster layer.

Selections - Select all.

Copy tube 'Sorensen_Designs'.

Back to your working image - Paste into the selection.

Set the Blend mode of this layer to Soft light.

Step 6

Copy tube 'Image12'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Set the Blend mode of this layer to Hard light.

Step 7

Copy tube 'Tube Halloween 8 Candice.B'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Image - Resize - 75% - All layers not checked.

Place her on the left side.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow - same settings as before.

Step 8

Copy tube 'mou_halloween girl2'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Image - Resize - 90% - All layers not checked.

Image - Rotate - Free rotate - Left - 10 - nothing checked.

Place her on the right side.

Lower the Opacity of this layer to 55.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow - same settings as before.

Step 9

Copy tube 'Tube Halloween 11 by Candice'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Image - Resize - 80% - All layers not checked.

Place her on the right side.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow - same settings as before.

Step 10

Copy tube 'hjr_misted_haunted6'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Image - Resize - 110% - All layers not checked.

Place it on the right side.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow - same settings as before.

You still can move the tubes.

Step 11

Copy tube 'SE_wordART_08_Halloween'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Put it on a nice place.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow - same settings as before.

Layers - Duplicate.

Layers - Merge - Merge down.

Step 12

Layers - New raster layer.

Add your name and/or watermark.

Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).

Step 13

Image - Add borders - Symmetric checked - 1 pixel - background color.

Image - Add borders - Symmetric checked - 25 pixels - foreground color.

Activate your Magic wand - Outside checked - with these settings:

Select the last border with your Magic wand.

Selections - Invert.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor 10 - Opacity 65 - Blur 25 - color black.

Repeat with Vert and Hor to -10 (minus 10).

Selections - Select none.

Step 14

Image - Add borders - Symmetric checked - 1 pixel - background color.

Image - Add borders - Symmetric checked - 25 pixels - foreground color.

Select this border with your Magic wand.

Effects - Plugins - AP 01 (Innovations) - Lines - Silverlining - with these settings:

Image - Add borders - Symmetric checked - 1 pixel - background color.

Image - Resize - Width 600 pixels.

Step 15

Selections - Select all.

Effects - Plugins - Ulead Effects - Gif-X 2.0 - click on Light - see image below:

Click on Gallery - find Halo2 - click OK - see images below:

Click on Save - name it - save it so you can find it back - click OK:

Selections - Select none.

Step 16

Go to the folder you saved your crea in.

Click on it and you can see how the animation works.

I hope you enjoyed making this tutorial :-)

This lesson was written by Gerrie on April 7, 2012.

This lesson is and remains the property of Gerrie.

You are not allowed to copy or distribute my lessons without my written permission.

All my lessons are self designed ... so any agreement is purely coincidental.

All my lessons are registered with TWI.

Translated by Zial on August 12, 2013

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