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HALLOWEEN MAGIC

This tutorial is for those who have working knowledge with Paint Shop Pro and Jasc

Animation Shop.

This tutorial used an amazing PTU scrap kit by Skys Scraps called Halloween.

This kit is just beautiful and what unique elements!!You can find her amazing work here:

http://skyrosemelody.blogspot.com/

*Tube: Elias Chatzoudis HalloweenToonGirl This requires a license to use.

You can purchase his amazing work here:

http://mypsptubes.estoreadvanced.biz/index.php?p=catalog&parent=201&pg=1

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*Effect: Alien Skin Xenofex 2 and Eye Candy 4000.

You can find the demos here: http://www.alienskin.com/

*Font: A&S Signwriter, this is a PTU font which can not be provided.

Any flourish or cursive style font will work.

*Supplies: Mask EEMask10~Flirty & Word Art HERE:http://www.4shared.com/file/139697685/22294d83/GI_Halloween_MagicSupplies.html

(Unknown Artist of the Mask, left the name intact. If this is yours please let me know andI will either credit it properly, link it or remove it from the supplies)

Please SAVE often!!

Lets get started

Open your scrap kit and supplies and have ready.

Save your mask into your mask folder before starting on your tag. Usually your folder

would be located under your C drive/Programs/Corel/PaintShopPro/Masks.Download the font into your windows/font folder.

Now open up your Corel Paint Shop Program.

Open a new transparent 850x850 layer, flood fill white.

Create a new raster layer and flood fill with a paper of choice from the kit.

I used: SkyScraps-Halloween-pp2

Now apply the EEMask10~Flirty with these settings:

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Right Click and merge group.

Copy and paste as a new layer a frame from the kit. I used a wicked one called:SkyScraps-Halloween-Frame4.

Copy and paste the SkyScraps-Halloween-PaperElement1 from the kit.Top tool bar-Image-Free Rotate-25 degrees to the right-Unselect the check box for-all

layer-Ok. Now colorize. Top tool bar-Adjust-Hue & Saturation-Colorize-Hue settings:

20-Saturation Settings: 194-Ok. Add a drop shadow. Rename this layer as Paper for laterif you would like to add the animation.

Open up the tree from kit: SkyScraps-Halloween-Tree. Paste as a new layer and move to

the left of the frame. Make sure this layer is dragged beneath your frame layer but aboveyour paper layer.

Open up a castle from the kit, I used: SkyScraps-Halloween-ShroomCastle2.

Drag this layer beneath your frame layer but above your paper element and center it inthe middle of the frame. See mine to reference.

Open up a critter from the kit, I used: SkyScraps-Halloween-BarnOwl. Resized by 30%

and paste as a new layer.

Move this owl layer above your tree layer and position on the tree to the left.

Now copy and paste as a new layer the adorable little pumpkin carriage from the kit:

SkyScraps-Halloween-Element8, move to the bottom right of your tag. Drag this layer all

the way to the top. See mine to reference.

Now resize your animation by 80%-All layers. Crop to each edge to remove any left over

jaggies.

Open up your tube of choice. I used an Elias tube. Copy and paste as a new layer. Move

this layer all the way to the top of all your layers.

Copy and Paste my word art (if you want to use it, I liked it better without) that I

provided in the supplies as a new layer.

Resize by 55%. Sharpen Once. Position at the top.

Add your name to the tag on the left side.

I used font: A&S Signwriter, size 24, foreground color code: #fbf8b1 and backgroundcolor the same paper as used for the mask: SkyScraps-Halloween-pp2

This has a gradient glow using Eye Candy 4000. Top Tool bar-Effects-EyeCandy400-

Gradient Glow-Glow Width 3- Soft Corners 25-Overall Opacity 100 and the Draw OnlyOutside Selection is checked-Color diffuse, an Orange color, I used Color Code:

#ce6d1b-Ok. You can add this same glow to the word art if you like.

Add your drop shadows.

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Now add your copyright and watermark.

If you would like to had the twinkle stars/animation. Move to the next step.

If not, save as a jpg or png (for the transparent background).

~ANIMATION~

Now click on your Paper layer to make active.

Duplicate these layers 3 times, to total 4 layers.Label them Paper1, 2, 3 and Main. Now Hide your Main Layer.

Go to paper layer 1, click to make active.

Using Alien Skin Xenofex 2-Constellation using these settings:

Hit Ok and now click on paper 2 layer to make active and use the same settings but hitRandom Seed once. And then click Ok.

Now do the same effect but hit Random Seed one more time with a paper layer 3. Hit

Ok. Now hide all but paper 1 layer of the animations.

Right Click and Copy Merged. Paste into Jasc.

Back to PSP and hide paper layer 1, and unhide paper layer 2.

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Right Click-Copy Merged-Paste into Jasc after the current animation.

Do this again for layer 3. Now in Jasc. Click View-View Animation to see if you like it.

Undo (back arrow) if you do not and want to fix it again.Save as animation if you are happy with it!

Thank you for trying my tutorial!I would love to see your results and are displaying them on my tutorial page.

If you would like to share your creation from this tutorial,

You can email them here:jessicawoods1@yahoo.comwith TUT RESULTS in the subject line.

This tutorial was written by Jessica Woods on October 9, 2009.

Any similarities to this tutorial are merely coincidental.Please do not share this tutorial other than a direct linkto my main blog site here:

http://gothicinspirations.blogspot.com/

Proud member ofTWI: http://www.tutorial-writers-inc.com/

Jessica Woods 2009

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