Witchy Woman

 In this PSP tutorial I'm using the amazing artwork of Lorri Kajenna

 purchased at PicsForDesign

A FTU scrapkit by Addictive Pleasures

called I Love Halloween ~ third kit down

♥ Thank you tamie ♥

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Fecnikek's Halloween Mask HERE

I used 4hwmask2.fecnikek

Fire Animation by Scrappy Bit of Fun

 Grab the Simone Ani 301 HERE

Font Coraline's Cat

Drop Shadow of choice as you go

Be sure to sharpen elements if resizing

*~ Let's get started ~*

1. Open new Image 725 x 700 px transparent

Flood fill white

Add layer ~ select all

Open Paper 3, C/Paste into the selection d/s

Open fecnikek mask 2, merge All Flatten

Go to Image ~ Negative Image. Minimize

Back to working image, apply the mask to the paper. Merge Group.

R/S 98% 

2.  Open leaves 3, C/P, duplicate mirror, arrange

tree ~ mirror

window ~ 85% duplicate ~ blend mode multiply, merge down

Draw a selection inside of window,

add a new layer, flood fill black, d/s

Keep selection, open tube resize 85%

Mirror tube, rotate 12 deg to left, sharpen C/P & arrange

invert selection and press delete. d/s

Duplicate tube ~ Gaussian blur of 5, Hard Light blend mode

D/S Window

3.  Add main tube, R/S 35%, mirror C/P

duplicate ~ gaussian blur 5, blend mode soft light. opacity 42

Ivy 3 C/P

using deform/pick tool, press Control on keyboard

grab top left node and drag inwards to distort the ivy frame.

Sharpen. Sharpen more.  Open Paper 5, mirror.

C/P beneath ivy frame. Draw a point to point selection around ivy, invert

Select paper layer & delete. d/s

Add web ~ 50% on top of paper

Decorate your tag to your liking

barrel ~ 75%

book ~ 25%

couldron2 ~ 75%

mouse ~ 45%

ivy ~ 50%

pumpkin 2 ~ 75%, duplicate ~ mirror, resize 75%

spider 2 ~ 45%

4.  Resize working image if desired, all layers checked

Add copyright, url, license & Name

Close white bg layer. Merge visible Save as a PNG

To Animate:

Open Simone Fire Animation 301 Mng in Animation Shop

Rezize Smart size 50%

Back to PSP, On working image copy 'merged visible'

and Paste in A/S as a New Animation

The fire animation has 21 frames therefore

duplicate your main image to equal 21 frames. Edit select All & edit Propogate Paste

On Fire animation, Edit select All & Copy

Drag first frame of fire animation

on to the first frame of working image

Place the animation on top of  couldron, slightly to right

Return to Fire animation, select UNDO, animation ~Mirror ~ select All

Copy first frame and place on couldron in middle

Return to Fire ani, select UNDO, Animation mirror

select all, copy first frame 

and paste left side of couldron

If placement error is made, simply UNDO your animation & try again.

Essentially I copied 3 fire animations to cover bottom of couldron

Check your image animation by selecting VIEW animation.

If happy, use optimization Wizard

Customize settings:  255 colors, opt median cut, error diffusion

Partial transparency set at 85%, select Yes match with this color 'white'

Ok, next, next, finish. 

Voila!