Ups 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 Shop (AS)

and the following plugins:

Filters Unlimited 2.0 - Paper Textures

FM Tile Tools - Blend Emboss

You can download the plugins

you can download the materials.

It contains: 5 tubes - 1 picture - 1 mask - 1 animation tube.

Place the mask in your Mask folder.

The tubes are by Cindy Grundsten, Mentali and Natalie Bird.

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

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 tubes and the picture in PSP - minimize them for now.

Set your foreground color to #ba7127 (or at your choice).

Set your background color to #371705 (or at your choice).

Open a transparent image of 650 x 550 pixels.

Flood fill your image with your background color.

Step 2

Layers - New raster layer.

Flood fill this layer with your foreground color.

Layers - Load/save mask - Load mask from disk - load mask 'Narah_Nature002' - with these settings:

Layers - Merge - Merge group.

Effects - Plugins - FM Tile Tools - Blend Emboss - default settings.

Step 3

Open tube 'SSHalloween6'.

Image - Resize - Width 542 pixels.

Edit - Copy.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor 8 - Opacity 40 - Blur 8 - black.

Set the Blend mode of this layer to Soft light.

Step 4

Copy tube 'Image7'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place it right below - see main image.

Step 5

Open tube 'mentali-insecte'.

Image - Resize - Width 254 pixels.

Edit - Copy.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place it in the upper right corner.

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

Step 6

Open tube 'mou_ups_halloween'.

Image - Resize - Width 450 pixels.

Edit - Copy.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place her down and a little to the right - see main image.

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

Step 7

Open tube 'NatalieBird_Stars_5'.

Image - Resize - Width 461 pixels.

Edit - Copy.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

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

Place the stars in the upper left corner.

Step 8

Layers - New raster layer.

Add your name and/or watermark.

Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).

Step 9

Image - Add borders - Symmetric checked - 1 pixels - foreground color.

Image - Add borders - Symmetric checked - 20 pixels - background color.

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

Select the last border with your Magic wand.

Set your foreground to gradient 'Foreground-background' - Linear - Repeats 3 - Invert not checked - Horizontal 0 - Vertical 1.

Flood fill the selections with this gradient.

Effects - Plugins - Filters Unlimited 2.0 - Paper Textures - Japanese Paper - default settings.

Step 10

Selections - Invert.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor 8 - Opacity 40 - Blur 8 - black.

Repeat with Vert and Hor to -8 (minus 8).

Selections - Select none.

Edit - Copy.

To AS: Edit - Paste - As a new animation.

Step 11

Click 1x Ctrl+C - click 2x Ctrl+L (the letter l).

You now have 3 frames.

Click in frame 1 - Edit - Select all.

Step 12

Open animation 'BlingHalloween8_G_PTR' in AS.

Click in frame 1 - press Delete.

Click in frame 1 - Edit - Select all.

Animation - Resize animation - Width 152 pixels.

Edit - Copy.

Step 13

Back to your main animation.

Edit - Paste - In selected frame.

Put it on a nice place.

Step 14

View - Animation.

You now can see how your animation looks.

Click View - Animation again to end the animation.

If you are setisfied:

If you want you can resize your animation:

Animation - Resize animation - Width 500 pixels.

Save your crea as a gif file and you're done!

If you got a screen, click 3x Next - click 1x Finish.

I hope you enjoyed making this tutorial :-)

This lesson was written by Gerrie on September 29, 2009.

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 September 25, 2013

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