Jade's Hallowe'en Goodies Tutorial

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GHOST

Remember on the first page, you downloaded selection files.
For our little ghost, (this one's real simple!), open a new
transparent image in PSP... 500x500, 16 million colors.

Add a new layer, name it ghost. Go to Selections/Load From Disk
and load the ghost.sel file. Floodfill with white, then go to Selections/Float
and apply a cutout effect with the following settings:

Deselect Image.

Add a new layer, name it face. With your background set on black,
and your foreground Null, pick up your preset shapes tool, set
on Ellipse, Line Width 1, antialias and vector UNchecked.
Draw a small circle for the eye, click on your eye with your
magic wand to select it, then copy/paste it as a new selection
so that both eyes are the same size. Line them up the way you
want them. Draw a more "elliptical" shape for the mouth....or
you can make his mouth whatever shape you wish.
Go to Layers/Merge Visible. Then click anywhere on your canvas
with your magic wand, go to Selections/Invert, copy/paste as
new Image. And there's your ghost. Again you can tube him,
(he's pretty big) and then resize him to whatever you want to
use in an image or as a transparent .gif file.

Ready for another one?? This one is even easier. No brain surgery here!!

BATS

For the bats. Open an new transparent image, 300x300 in PSP with 16 million colors.
Add a new layer (no need to name this one since there's only one!)
Load the 2bats.sel file from Selections/Load From Disk. Flood fill with black,
merge visible layers and either tube, resize or whatever you wish to do with
them. If you wish, you can also apply a bevel effect to them, but I didn't.

TOMBSTONE

Open an new transparent image, 300x300 in PSP with 16 million colors.
Add a new layer, name it stone. Go to Selections/Load from Disk, and load the tombstone.sel file.
Open the marble fill that you saved from the first page of
the tutorial and floodfill your selection. Go to Selections/Float and apply the
following cutout settings:

Deselect Image. This is what it should look like now.
Mine is resized, of course, for faster page loading.

Now you can decorate your tombstone with cracks and
lettering if you wish.
What I did for my look is this. Add a new layer, name it deco.
With your foreground color set to black and your background to null,
pick up your preset shapes tool, set to Pentagon, antialias and vector
UNchecked, line width set at 3. Drawn a Pentagon up towards the top
of your tombstone. Then change your background from null to black
and using your text tool, place the letters R.I.P. inside the pentagon.
(I used Arial 18/Bold, but it's your choice) Then using my paintbrush
set on Square/Brush Size 2/Hardness 30/Opacity 100/Step 25/Density 100
I drew my "cracks" all over the stone. I used my text tool again to put
the writing on it. I then always merge the visible layers, click on my canvas
with my magic wand and copy and past as a new image to get rid of the
excess canvas.

Want More?? Okay, lets GO !!

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