AWAKEN

For this tutorial I used the wonderful work of Vicki in the Ghosts of Halloweens Past Kit found HERE
Animation Shop

• NEW IMAGE700x700 Transparent
• Flood fill Gradient "Sky2"
• ADD Drapes of choice, Duplicate, IMAGE>MIRROR (to recolor mine I ADJUST>HUE &SATERATION>COLORIZE Factory Defaults, 0, 128)
• LAYERS>MERGE DOWN
• ADD Bushe2, DUPLICATE>IMAGE>MIRROR
• LAYERS>MERGE DOWN
• I moved my bushe2 layer almost half way down my image.
• Place Bushe2 layer UNDER Drapes Layer.
• Add Tree, Moon, Noose, Coffin, Vampiress, Candles, whatever else you might like along with water marks/copyrights.
• Add Text... I have mine at a 50% transparancy for effect.
• COPY MERGED
• Open Animation Shop
• PASTE as a new animation
• Back to PSP
• Add Ghost at your starting location, mine is to the right.
• COPY MERGED
• Animation Shop>Paste after current frame
• PSP
• Move ghost a tad to the left
• COPY MERGED
• Animation Shop>Paste after current frame
• **
• PSP
• Add Hand coming out from coffin, and move ghost again
• COPY MERGED
• Animation Shop>Paste after current frame
• ** Between the stars as many times as you need to get your ghost to float the way you would like for it to =]
• PSP
• NEW RASTER
• PICTURE TUBE>FLARE 50 (should be small enough to place over your candle flames and create a soft glow, if not resize and play till it seems right to you) You only need 1
• COPY
• Animation Shop>Paste as new animation
• CTRL+C
• In your first tag layer, CTRL+E to paste, click again where you would like the flare. You can do his as many times as you would like per frame. REMEMBER: The blue and red outlined frame is the one you are working in at the time. Go thru each of your frames switching which candles have the flares in each frame.
• RUN
• Save as .gif