Halloween Night

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

On the first layer apply VM Natural Lightburst with settings
below

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

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

Add a drop shadow to the moon

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

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

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

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