Happy Haunting

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• For this tutorial I used the Ghosts of Halloweens Past kit from Gemini Creationz PTU found HERE
• Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 Gradiant Glow & Aliex Skin Xenofex 2 Lightning trials found HERE Both installed into your plug-ins before hand, because if you do not they will not show up
• Two wonderful Chubbies from Farrah's Creations that are PTU and can be bought HERE
• Animation Shop trial found HERE
• Font is Halloween Spider not sure where I got it, I have had it for years LOL.
• Grab something to drink and let's get started =]
• OPEN your choice of backgrounds. I liked the stars.
• ** If you want more color to your background like I did, use between the double stars, if not proceed to under double stars......
• LAYERS>NEW RASTER LAYER>Normal, 100, 0
• In your LAYERS palette right click on your BACKGROUND, CONVERT to RASTER
• Click on your transparent layer and flood fill with your choice of colors. I used a dark navy.
• Slide this UNDER what was your background layer by right clicking to ARANGE>Move to bottom.
• On your old background layer, I changed my transparancy to 30% for a lighter effect.
• Next I made my tag image using whatever elemnts I saw fit for what I wanted. The one thing I will mention IF you want to make something similar is I placed my MOON element UNDER my old bacground layer so this was also softer.
• Add everything you need for your tag, Except your wording and lightning.
• Now we are going to play with our Plug-Ins.
• In your LAYERS PALETTE click on the very bottom layer (for me this was my navy layer)
• EFFECTS>PLUG INS>EYE CANDY XENOFEX>Lightning.. I used the following settings, you can play with this as you want.
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• COPY MERGED
• In Animation Shop PASTE (as new animation for first frame, after use after current frame)
• You are going to want to repete this 3 times (for a total of 4 frames) I moved my layers around though, I have 1 on my navy and the rest are on a new Raster I placed behind my tubes. Do what you think looks best for you.
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• NOW while you are clicked in your animation
• CTRL+SHFT+A
• CTRL+SHFT+C
• CTRL+SHFT+L... 4 times, so you have a total of 20 frames. The need for all 20 will make sense here in a min just trust me =]
• Bact to PSP we go....
• NEW RASTER Make your text that you want to fade now, Mine is Happy Haunting.
• EFFECTS>Plugins>Eye Candy 5> Gradiant Glow>Dark Aura
• COPY
• Move to Animation and PASTE as a new Animation.
• On the BLUE BAR, RIGHT CLICK, INSERT IMAGE TRANSITION, DISOLVE:
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• CTRL+SHFT+A (select all)
• CTRL+SHFT+C (copy)
• Over to tag layer
• CTRL+SHFT+A (select all)
• CTRL+SHFT+E (paste)
• Now this will be floating so do not click again until you have it where you would like it. If you need to change it just go to EDIT and Undo.
• BACK to PSP
• NEW RASTER
• Make your name if you are doing so.
• Copy and paste as a new animation
• CTRL+SHFT+L 19 times for a total of 20 frames
• CTRL+SHFT+A (select all)
• CTRL+SHFT+C (copy)
• Over to tag layer
• CTRL+SHFT+A (select all)
• CTRL+SHFT+E (paste)
• RUN ANIMATION
• ***If it is to fast for your liking go back to the frames layer and CTRL+SHFT+A, ANIMATION, FRAME PROPERTIES. I changed mine from 10 (default) to 25***
• AFTER RUNNING, SAVE AS GIF FILE.
• Hope you enjoied this one!