October Fright

For this tutorial you will need the following:

Paint Shop Pro, I am using PSP X, you should be able to use any version.

Tube of choice, I am using the artwork of Ismael Rac which you need a license to use.  

Scrap kit of choice. I am using October Nights, a PTU kit by Pimp'd Designs

available at Pimp My Tags With Scraps 

Font of choice, I am using Jeans de Nimes

Mask: Boundless Bliss Grunge Mask 1, she no longer has her site

so I can't link, if you don't have this mask, any mask you like will work

Plugins:

I do use Eye Candy 4000 Gradient Glow on all my copyrights/credits layers

I do this because some forums will make a .png tag show up with a black background and then your

copyright doesn't show. 

Just remember that my choices of papers and elements is just a suggestion, change it up and make it yours! You don't have to follow mine exactly.

Add a drop shadow of your choosing to tubes & elements throughout. I usually use 1, 1, 50, 5 unless otherwise noted.

Let's get started!

Open a new canvas 850 x 850 pixels with a white background

open frame 2 copy and paste as a new layer 

click inside with your magic wand, selections, modify, expand 2, selections, invert

open  copy and paste as a new layer 

layer  use paper

click inside with your magic wand, selections, modify, expand 2, selections, invert

open paper 7 copy and paste as a new layer, click delete on your keyboard

Open your tube, copy and paste as a new layer, arrange in frame, click delete on your keyboard & deselect

Change the blend mode to Luminance (L) and drop the opacity to 75

Paste your tube again, resize 50% arrange on the left of the frame

Now add elements

Spell book resize  30% arrange on bottom center of frame

skulls resize  55% arrange on right, erase the skull on the far right, duplicate & mirror

feather resize  75% arrange on right, below other elements, duplicate & mirror

cross resize  55% arrange on right

spider web resize  55% arrange on right

Add paper 2 just above the white background and apply your mask.

crop and resize

add your copyright and credits as needed

add your text and save