Tutorial "Halloween Babe"

This tutorial was written by me on 10th October 2011. It was done with PSP X2 but it might work with other versions, too. This tutorial is copyrighted to me, any resemblance is purely coincidental and not intentional!

You need: "Halloween Babe 2" PTU Scrapkit by Addictive Pleasures which you can purchase at Dreams-N-Digital, a gorgeous Halloween tube, I am using the artwork of Barbara Jensen which you can purchase here and my Happy Halloween template which you can download here

1. Open template in PSP, with Shift D make a copy, delete layer credit, open glitter.png, copy and paste as new layer, selection, custom selection Top 300/Left 0/Bottom 600/Right 700, press delete, select none, duplicate layer, image mirror, image flip, merge down, add Dropshadow 1/1/25/1 #000000, arrange layer, send to bottom

2. Highlight SpiderWebRight, merge down (with SpiderWebLeft), select all, selection float, selection defloat, delete layer, add new rasterlayer, fill with #fa8514 (press 3 times), select none, adjust, add noise 50, Uniform and Monochrome checked, add Dropshadow

3. Switch off the visibility of Quadrant1, Quadrant2, Quadrant3 and Quadrant4 or delete these four layers and make layer Elipse visible, select all, selection float, selection defloat, delete layer, add new rasterlayer, open p7.png, set to pattern (Angle 0/Scale 50), fill selection with pattern, select none, add Dropshadow

4. Highlight ThinRectangle, select all, selection float, selection defloat, delete layer, add new rasterlayer, fill with #000000, select none, add Dropshadow, highlight DottedLine, select all, selection float, selection defloat, delete layer, add new rasterlayer, fill with #fa8514 (press 3 times), select none, adjust, add noise, add Dropshadow

5. Highlight Rectangle1, select all, selection float, selection defloat, delete layer, add new rasterlayer, fill with #fa8514, select none, adjust, add noise, add Dropshadow, highlight Rectangle2, select all, selection float, selection defloat, delete layer, add new rasterlayer, fill with #000000, select none, highlight 2Rectangles, select all, selection float, selection defloat, delete layer, add new rasterlayer, open p8.png, set to pattern (Angle 0/Scale 50), fill selection with pattern, select none, highlight Pixelfont2, select all, selection float, selection defloat, delete layer, add new rasterlayer, fill with #fa8514 (press 3 times), select none, add Dropshadow

6. Open roses.png, resize 75%, copy and paste as new layer, move it to the right and a little up, duplicate layer, image mirror, add Dropshadow to both, open sign.png, resize 50%, copy and paste as new layer, move it to the left and a little down, add Dropshadow, open candyapple.png, resize 50%, copy and paste as new layer, move it down and place it on the right side of the sign, add Dropshadow, open spider2.png, resize 40%, copy and paste as new layer, image flip, image, free rotate 55 degrees right, move it down to the left, next to the candyapple, add Dropshadow

7. Open moon.png, resize 50%, copy and paste as new layer, move it a little to the right and a little down (look at my tag), open cat.png, resize 75%, copy and paste as new layer, image mirror, move it a little to the right and a little down, place it in front of the moon, open ribbon3.png, resize 50%, copy and paste as new layer, move it up, add Dropshadow

8. Open your tube, copy and paste as new layer, resize if needed, place as you wish, add Dropshadow 1/1/25/10 #000000, duplicate tube layer, on duplicated layer, adjust, blur, gaussian blur 2, set blend mode to screen, opacity to 50

Now you can write down your name and/or text, add copyright information and save your tag as .png or .jpg! Hope you like my tut, please enjoy ♥