Halloween Night

halloween night

 

supplies

Supplies include the background,font, word art and moon

Plug-in VM Natural (Lightburst) - it is shareware and you can download here

This free tube by Zindy S.D Nielsen can be downloaded at her site here

Ready?

File new
500x500 transparent
Selections - Select All

Open the golden web background
Copy and then paste into selection on your canvas
Select None

 

Duplicate this layer twice for a total of three layers

On the first layer apply VM Natural Lightburst with settings
below

screenshot 1

 

Next layer - apply the Lightburst effect only this time
change the frequency to 50

Next layer - apply the lightburst effect - this time change
frequency to 60

Now close off the bottom two layers

Open my halloween wordart
copy and paste as new layer
Place a top left
screenshot 2

 

Open moon from my supplies
Copy and paste as new layer
Move to upper right
On the blend mode change to overlay

screenshot


Add a drop shadow to the moon

drop shadow

Open the tube by Zindy S.D. Neilsen
I just love her work and this is a free tube
add your © info

This tube has several layers and I picked the one that has
the tree, cat and pumpkins
I mirrored the image to have the tree by the moon
screenshot 9

Add your text - I used the font provided to you
Zombified
Foreground White
Background #aeb6a8
Used Vector with a stroke width of 1
Convert to raster
One thing I loved to do on my text is add noise
My settings are below

screenshot

moon

Ready to Animate?

Go back to your background layers -
Go to the first layer and close off the two duplicated layers

Open AS
Edit/Copy Merged and paste as new animation

Back to PSP - close layer 1, open layer 2
Copy merged, back to AS and paste after current frame

Back to PSP, close layer 2, open layer 3
Copy merged, back to AS and paste after current frame

 

I did select all frames and slowed the frame properties to 40
But that is to your liking

Save as .gif and you are finished

Hope you enjoyed..

 

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This tutorial was written by Laine on September 29, 2010
Any resemblance to any other tutorial is coincidental
Property of Laines Highway