Halloween Tutorial

This tutorial was written on September 7th by Donna Mae AKA Sapphire Love. The concept of the tag is mine and mine alone. Any resemblance to any other tag/tut is pure coincidence. This was written for those with working knowledge of Adobe Photoshop.



Supplies Needed:
Happy Halloween by Tiny D's Scrappin Designs

Template #5 by Designs by Ali


Open up your template, re-size it to 500 x (Whatever it sets it to) pixels.

Remove your copyright layer.

Make sure all layers are invisible except for "Layer 1".

Open TD_HH_pp4. Go to Edit > Define Pattern > Okay.

Right click your layer > Blending Options > Pattern Overlay > The Pattern you just defined > Okay.

Press Shift + Control + N and a new layer should pop up. Press Shift + Control + E and those layers should merge.

Make sure all layers are invisible except for "Layer 2".

Open TD_HH_pp21, go to Edit > Define Pattern > Okay.

Right click your layer > Blending Options > Pattern Overlay > The pattern you just defined > Okay.

Press Shift + COntrol + N, and a new layer should pop up. Press Shift + Control + E and those layers should merge.

Make sure all layers are invisible except for "Layer 3"

Open TD_HH_pp, go to Edit > Define Pattern > Okay.

Right click your layer > Blending Options > Pattern Overlay > The pattern you just defined > Okay.

Press Shift + Control + N and a new layer should pop up. Press Shift + Control + E and those layers should merge.

Make sure all layers are invisible except for "Layer 4", and repeat everything you just did for the previous layer.

Go back to "Layer 3", Add your drop shadow > opacity 20% > distance 3 > size 1.

And repeat with "Layer 4"

Right click "Layer 5", add your drop shadow > Opacity 20% > distnace 3 > size 1.

Right click "Layer 6",Add your drop shadow > opacity 20% > distance 3 > size 1.

OPen TD_HH_mummy, re-sizey by 30%, paste into your document, add your drop shadow > opacity 30% > distance 3 > size 3.

Open up SS_Lisa - Halloween - Pumpkin 1. Re-size by 25%, Paste into your document, add your drop shadow > opacity 20% > distance 3 > size 3.

Open TD_HH_bat1, re-size by 20%, then re-size again by 40%, paste into your document, add your drop shadow > opacity 20% > distance 3 > size 3.

Right click the bat layer, click duplicate layer, press control + t, and a box should form around it, press your up arrow ONCE.

Repeat again.

Repeat ONCE more.

Now animate it. Change your "Time Delay" to 0.1 seconds. First frame, first layer, Second frame, second layer, and do that until you get to the last layer/frame. Then go back down in your frames, (EXAMPLE: Frame 5; "Layer 9 Copy 1".
And your bat should be animated!

Add your text, tag it and you're done. Hope you enjoyed my tutorial!