Tiffany

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• For this tutorial I have used the wonderful Tiffany Kit by Vicki at Gemini Creationz which can be bought HERE
• Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 Impact Trial can be found HERE

• First you are going to open your base, I have used the fancy tag, any of the tags or brads will work for this though, just remember to re-size if you need to.
• Layers>New Raster Layer, Normal
• Zoom in to about 250% and with your lasso selection tool you are going to use point to point with a feather of 2 and select the inside of your tag.
• Effects>Plugins>Alien Skin>glass with the following settings. (remember when I give you settings it is what I used feel free to change anything you may want.)
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• Add your text for your tag and move it under the glass by selecting the layer in the layers palette and just moving it down.
• Add all embellishments to the tag you would like.
• Save

Hanging Around

For this tutorial I used the Spooky Hallow Kit from Vicki at Gemini Creatioz found HERE
Animation Shop trial found HERE
Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 Textures trial found HERE
FONT is Riesling

I like to start big because it makes it easier for me so I opened a new canvas 800x800 white
Apply the web and stretch it to fit the whole canvas by pulling the corners. Drop Shadow 4,4,100,14,black (this is the drop I use for the whole tag)
Apply the rope frame to the center. Drop Shadow.
Useing your free hand selection tool set on point to point with no feather Draw a line around the inside of the rope frame. Selections>Invert and then hit your delete key on your keyboard. This should take away any extra web from around the frame.
Add the broom and the bat to the tag. drop shadows on both. minimize your tag for a moment to work on the nest step.
Open Branch, Fall flower 2, fall flower 4, fern leaf, gflower,
Open a 600x600 transparent layer for your base
Apply in this order... Fern, Branch, and then the flowers. For my effect I made the branch with a slight sepia tone to bring out the gray in the flowers. Drop shadow each item. Merge Visable.
Copy
Open back up your tag and paste your flower arrangement on the tag near the bottom.
Layers>New raster layer>normal
Using your preset shapes took you need to be on rounded rectangle. For my inside I picked up a nice orange from the sunflower, and flood filled the rectangle.
Effects>Plugins>AlienSkinTextures>Marble

Effects>3D>Inner Bevel> Rounded Width:8, Smoothness0, depth20, ambiance0, shiny0, angle 315, intensity 50 and elevation 30
Apply all text and copyrights.
RESIZE tag, I used 70%
Add Spider and make her sit nicely on your frame. If you would like your tag NON animated go ahead and save it now.
For an animated version this is where you open your Animation Shop
Copy tag Merged.
Paste as new Animation
Back to PSP
Move your spider slightly
Copy Merged
Paste after current frame in Animation Shop.
You are going to continue the back and forth until you have your spider walking all the way around the frame. For when the spider is behind my sign I have 2 frames without the spider in them at all.
Run
Save.

Fly-by

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• For this tutorial I used the Spooky Hallow Kit from Vicki at Gemini Creationz found HERE
• Animation Shop (trial found HERE)
• Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 (Trial HERE)
• Open a 700x700 new canvas flood filled white.
• Add GCZ_SH_Frame
• Center GCZ_SH_Moon over the frame PLUGINS>Alien Skin Eye Candy 5>Gradient Glow. I took the Green Glow setting, changed the color to WHITE and the glow radius to 21.80, 35, 100, 100, 65, 100 Random Seed.
• merge down.
• PLUGINS>Alien Skin Eye Candy 5>Gradient Glow. I took the Green Glow setting, changed the color to a DARK BLUE and the glow radius to 21.80, 35, 100, 100, 65, 100 Random Seed.
• Add GCZ_SH_Broomwitch and GCZ_SH_Cat. Place these where ever you would like on your moon layer.
• Add text and copyrights (My text also had the white glow as used above)
• MERGE ALL
• Add GCZ_SH_Spider some place under the broomstick.
• VIEW>GRIDS
• VIEW SNAP TO GRIDS
• Using your Pen tool with the following settings:(you will have to click to see the full toolbar)
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• Black and Black. You are going to draw a line from the spider to the broomstick. The grids will help you to insure the lines will remain straight and the Snap to grids will make sure the spider staying in the correct area as well.
• COPY MERGED
• PASTE as a NEW ANIMATION in Animation Shop
• Back in PSP Move your spider down... I counted 4 grid clicks.
• Back to your pen tool and connect the end of the old line to your spider.
• COPY MERGED
• PASTE AFTER CURRENT FRAME in Animation Shop.
• Do this as many times as needed for the spider to move as you would like.
• RUN
• SAVE as a .gif

Freebie Frame

I was playing so I made this frame from the Ghosts of Halloween Past kit from Gemini Creatioz which can be found HERE



Link to Frame is HERE

Fly Away

For this Tutorial I have used the work of Julie at Bits N Bobs the kit is Summer Spritz and can be found HERE
The work of Suzanne Woolcott which can be purchased HERE
WSL Mask84

let's begin
Open your paper of choice and apply the mask. Drop shadow of 4,4,100,20,black

Merge Visable
Apply Frame of choice with elements of choice inside the frames
Apply bubbles to one side, duplicate and then mirror
Add Tubes of choice, Copyrights, and text
Save Tag
Hope you enjoyed this easy tutorial :)

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

Once you go Witch

• For this tutorial I used
• The AWESOME Ghosts Of Halloweens Past Kit by Vicki PTU found HERE
• The Art of Keith Garvey Tabitha Tube PTU found HERE
• VIX mask 281 found HERE placed in Mask folder
• Wiccan Symbol brush from gothica found HERE Placed into brush folder
• Alien Skin Eyecandy 5 Gradient Glow trial found HERE

• OPEN Back ground paper of choice
• APPLY Vix281 Mask. COPY MERGED
• PASTE as new image, and PASTE AGAIN as new layer. You may have to move it just a bit so it lines up correctly. Drop Shadow 4,4,100,4 black.
• Apply your brush to the center of the mask. I used Size 480, Step 32, Density 100 and Opacity 100 Blend mode of normal.
• Apply Tube of choice.
• Add Beware sign, I recolored mine to a green to match the paper useing EFFECTS>PHOTO EFFECTS>FILM & FILTERS, DARK GREEN 35%
• Add Candles
• Add Text with Gradiant Glow (Effects>Plugins>Alien Skin Eyecandy 5)
• Add Copyrights.
• Non-Animated Save here
• To Animate:
• Using your flare picture tube place a small flare on the first candle, COPY MERGED
• In Animation Shop PASTE as New Animation
• Back to PSP
• UNDO Picture Tube
• Place Flare on 2nd Candle
• COPY MERGED
• In Animation Shop PASTE after Current Frame
• PSP>UNDO> #rd Candle place a flare
• AS>PASTE after current frame
• RUN
• SAVE as .gif