All Hallow's Eve

This tutorial was written by me and for those

who have a good working knowledge of psp.

Supplies Needed

Tubes

 Artwork by ©Amy Matthews at CDO.

Font

Copperplate Gothic Light

Stock Photo

HERE, HERE, and HERE

Filters

AAA Frames - Foto Frames

Frame Edge I Made

HERE

Animation

Bat

Animation Shop (AS)

Okay, let's get started.

Remember to save often!!!

Open up Graveyard image

Resize to your liking - mine is about 30 then cropped

Paste Graveyard Ghouls 

Resize at about 15%

Move to the right in tag

Using eraser tool set on fuzz soft at 20% opacity

Erase parts of image on the left so it blends into other image

Paste Harvest Moon image 

Duplicate 

Change blend mode to Exclusion on bottom image

On top image lower opacity to 40%

Use eraser tool and erase parts of image if desired

Once that is complete merge all and then grey scale image

Apply foto frames filter

For foto frames setting change only Width to 20, Matte to 1

Convert background to raster image

Resize canvas 800 x 800

Float image

Expand by 1

Add new layer

Fill with white

Select none and move to bottom

Open my frame edge layer

Paste and move to bottom

Resize if needed

Crop image a little bigger than frame edge

Add new layer and move to bottom

Fill with black

Add text to edge of frame

Just type out and duplicate and / or rotate for each side

Paste tube

Add name
I only had foreground with no bg for mine

Add CR info

Merge All

Apply foto frames filter again but this time change foto frames setting to Width to 0, Matte to 1

Copy and paste into AS

Ctrl L until there are 22 frames

Open bat animation

Ctrl A

Drag to tag

I repeated this so I had 3 bats and resized each time by 85 so bats were all different sizes

Save as Gif