Hallows Eve

In this PSP tutorial the brilliant artwork of Zindy S.D. Nielsen was used,

 purchased at her store Zindy Zone Shop

Two FTU tagger scrapkits both by Miggins:

A Haunting We Will Go HERE

and

SYHO blog train October 2021 HERE

♥ Thank you Miggins ♥

**Please check out her blog, her store, tutorials & freebies. 

All links are found on her home page**

 >>> Miggins Place <<<

Mizteeque's Miz_Mask_352 found HERE

Grab the .jpg second row

WordArt by myself found HERE

Font Razor

Drop shadow used 1, -2, 45, 5, colour black or one of choice

Add D/S as you go with exceptions as stated.

Remember when resizing elements, to use Unsharp Mask

setting: 1,55,1 luminance checked

*~ Let's get started ~*

1. Open new Image 750 x 700 px transparent

Flood fill white

Add layer ~ select all

open All Hallows paper 7, C/Paste into the selection d/s

Apply mask, merge group. 

Duplicate

arrange top masked layer slightly higher & to left

in this instance only, D/S left masked layer: 1/2/55/5 colour white

arrange bottom masked layer slightly right & lower

2.  Add element 27 all hallows ~ 49%

C/P between the two masked layers on right

To brighten glow of lamp, use Lighten Brush found on left toolbar

sz 50-75, lightly brush over glow of lantern & hand 

Open elem 8 from ahwwg kit ~ 50%

C/P on top of elem 27

change blend mode to hard light

Erase skull of skeleton to fit inside monk

*see reference tag

3. open elem 10 ahwwg ~ 70% C/P

for added effect to age the fence,

add effects - artistic effects ~ enamel setting: 10,16,16 angle 45, colour #808080

arrange to left

Open tube of choice, C/P, duplicate, change blend mode to hard light

drop opacity to 53

D/S original tube layer but place D/S on new layer

This gives you option to decrease opacity or blur the D/S

should you find D/S is too harsh

On original tube layer,

apply Adjust ~ Sharpen ~ unsharp mask: 1,55,1, luminance checked. 

4. Add elem 1 ahwwg ~ 65%, mirror C/P to right above skeleton

but below the tube layers on layer palette

Add elem all hallows 16 ~ 75% C/P on top of both tube layers

Duplicate - change top layer to screen blend mode

Add elem 8 all hallows C/P to right of tube, duplicate ~ 65%, mirror, arrange and D/S each

merge down the two pumpkins together

Add elem 11 all hallows ~ 65% C/P 

duplicate twice more and arrange grass on different layers, resize if needed

place below and above the pumpkin layers

5.  Add elems 18 & 19 all hallows ~ 30%

C/P and stack upon each other

If using same tube, I opted to make hand appear as if its on top of books,

therefore on the original tube layer, draw a point to point selection

use replace mode, feather 1, draw selection closely around fingers

and along left edge of knuckles. Promote selection to a new layer. d/s

Move this promoted hand layer above the book layers.

I drop shadowed this layer using 1/2/35/5 black with shadow on its own layer.

Erase the shadow that appears on the left edge of hand. This D/S is entirely optional.

6. Add elements of choice to make this your own

elem 15 all hallows, mirror C/P above pumpkin layers

elem 11 ahwwg ~ 25%, mirror

elem 12 ahwwg ~ 20%

add more grass elem 11 all hallows, above dolls & above pumpkins

elem 18 allhallow ~ 20%

Add word art provided. Change colour to white

using Adjust ~ brightness/contrast: setting 255/0

Drop opacity to 75%

7. To achieve same Name effect, select pumpkins layer

foreground colour closed,  background any colour

setting sz 72, bold, sharp, choose 'selection' rather than a vector

type name and promote selection to a layer. d/s

D/S 2/-2/75/3 colour black, repeat if needed.

If you wish to resize tag, close white bg, crop merged opaque

then resize entire image.

8.  Add copyright, url & license. Save as a PNG

Happy Hallows Eve

xo