One Spooky Night Gerrie, thank you very much for your permission that I may translate your tutorials. Click on the banner for the original lesson This tutorial was made in PSP X9, but can also be made in the other versions.   For this tutorial you need Animation Shop (AS) and the following plugins: Greg's Factory Output Vol. II - Pool Shadow Italian Editors Generatore - Pattern Metallo Oro You can download the plugins Place or install the plugins in your Plugin folder.   If you have to install plugins, you have to restart your PSP, so they will working right away.   you can download the materials. It contains: 10 tubes - 1 mask - 1 animation.   Permission to use the tubes   The tubes are by Alec Rud, Animatie Simone, NLD and Verocreation. The mask is by Astrid. Thank you so much for the beautiful tubes, 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 credit.   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 mask in PSP - minimize them for now. Set your foreground color to #cc7410 (or at your choice). Set your background color to #000000 (or at your choice). Open tube 'Achtergrond One spooky night'. This will be your working image. Layers - New raster layer. Flood fill this layer with your foreground color. Layers - New mask layer - From Image - find mask 'Astrid masker 91' - with these settings: Layers - Merge - Merge group. Step 2 Copy tube 'halloween4-octobre-verocreation'. Paste as a new layer on your working image. Effects - Image effects - Offset - with these settings: Set the Blend mode of this layer to Hard light. Step 3 Copy tube 'Creepy tree'. Paste as a new layer on your working image. Effects - Image effects - Offset: 475 - minus 34. Step 4 Copy tube 'NLD Glitter'. Paste as a new layer on your working image. Effects - Image effects - Offset: 368 - 0. Step 5 Copy tube 'Hek'. Paste as a new layer on your working image. Effects - Image effects - Offset: 110 - 0. Step 6 Copy tube 'Wegwijzer'. Paste as a new layer on your working image. Effects - Image effects - Offset: minus 390 - minus 54. Set the Blend mode of this layer to Luminance (L). Step 7 Copy tube 'horror _hr'. Paste as a new layer on your working image. Effects - Image effects - Offset: 439 - minus 216. Step 8 Copy tube 'NLD Fire'. Paste as a new layer on your working image. Place the fire in the middle - see main image. Step 9 Copy tube 'ALEC RUD - carina 7'. Paste as a new layer on your working image. Place her on the left side - see main image. Step 10 Selections - Select all. Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 10 pixels - foreground color. Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow: Vert and Hor 0 - Opacity 100 - Blur 11 - color black. Repeat Drop shadow with the same settings. Selections - Select none. Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 10 pixels - background color. Select this border with your Magic wand - with these settings: Effects - Plugins - Italian Editors - Generatore - Pattern Metallo Oro - default settings - see image below: Selections - Select none. Step 11 Image - Add borders - Symmetric not checked - foreground color - with these settings: Select this border with your Magic wand. Effects - Plugins - Greg's Factory Output Vol. II - Pool Shadow - default settings - see image below: Selections - Invert. Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow - same settings as before - repeat 1x with the same settings. Selections - Select none. Step 12 Open folder WordArt. Choose a text of your choice. Paste as a new layer on your working image. Place it as you like or see main image. Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow - at your choice. Step 13 Layers - New raster layer. Add your name and/or watermark. Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten). Step 14 Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 1 pixel - background color. Edit - Copy. To AS: Edit - Paste - As a new animation. Step 15 Click 1x with Ctrl+C - click now 14x Ctrl+L. You now have 15 frames. Click in frame 1 - Edit - Select all. Step 16 Open tube 'SimoneAni-MagicGenie' in AS. You can resize this image as you like. Click in frame 1 - Edit - Select all - Edit - Copy. Step 17 Back to your main animation. Edit - Paste - Into selected frame. Place it in the middle of your crea. Step 18 Animation - Cull animation: 5. You now have 12 frames - see image below: Animation - Frame properties: 15. Step 19 View - Animation. You now can see how your animation looks. If you are satisfied: Save your crea as a gif file and you're done! Step 20 If you got a screen, click 3x Next - click 1x Finish. Step 20 If you want your crea in my Gallery: Image - Resize - longest side 800 pixels. Send me an email with your crea and the name of the lesson.   I hope you enjoyed making this tutorial :-)   This lesson was written by Gerrie on October 8, 2017. 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 October 30, 2017   Back