HALLOWEEN FORUM SET FTU

Written by Gwenda on September 16^th 2011

Any similarity to any other tutorial is purely coincidental

You will need:

Font of choice – I used Gravedigger, found

HERE

Halloween Party scrapkit by Kittz Kreationz FTU found

HERE

Tube of choice. I used Ashley Halloween by Elias Chatzoudis. His work can be found at

 HERE

Scrappityscraps Halloween Template 1 which can be found

HERE

Open Halloween Template 1. Copy, and close original

Delete top layer ( copyright ).

Add new raster layer at the bottom and floodfill white

Click on Big rectangle. Selections – float – defloat
Add new raster layer and paste Paper 9 into selection. Selections – select none.

Sharpen twice. Dropshadow

Make foreground colour #aa3d23  and background colour #f6ca5c.

Create background gradient angle 45 and 1 repeat.

Click on Smaller rectangle rectangle. Selections – float – defloat
Add new raster layer and fill with gradient. DO NOT DESELECT.

Go to effects - Mura Meister Cloud. Click reset colours. OK

Selections – select none.

Effects – textures – blinds

Width = 7, opacity = 20, colour = #2c2024

Dropshadow

Paper 6 – Resize 50%

Paste at left above thin rectangle layer. Duplicate paper and mirror.

Merge both papers together.

Click on thin rectangle. Selections – float – defloat. Selections – invert.

Click on Paper 6 layer and hit delete.

Deselect.

Border thin rectangle  - Selections – float – defloat
Add new raster layer and paste Paper 9 into selection. Selections – select none.

Sharpen twice. Adjust – add noise. Gaussian 50 with monochrome box checked.

Give inner bevel of choice. Dropshadow.

Make foreground colour #2c2024  and background colour #e86718.

Create background gradient angle 45 and 1 repeat.

Click on Circle. Selections – float – defloat
Add new raster layer and fill with gradient. DO NOT DESELECT.

Go to effects - Mura Meister Cloud. Click reset colours. OK

Deselect.

Effects – texture effects – weave, with settings on 2   4   40. Both colour setting on #db9f4b.

Border circle  - Selections – float – defloat
Add new raster layer and paste Paper 8 into selection. Selections – select none.

Sharpen. Give inner bevel of choice. Dropshadow.

Position close up of tube over left grey square. Remove excess then duplicate and mirror.

Merge 2 tube layers together.

Apply pentadotcom dot and cross on default settings.

Erase the centre grey square.

Use magic wand and click on both the remaining grey squares.

Selections – modify – expand by 6.

Layers – new raster layer. Fill with Paper 9.

Deselect. Sharpen.

To create a frame effect do the following:

Make sure the Paper 9 layer is above the grey squares.

Using magic wand, click on both grey squares. Click on paper 9 layer and hit delete.
Deselect. Delete grey squares template layer.

Inner bevel on frames. Dropshadow. Make sure the frames are sitting above the tube layer and merge down.

NOTE: THIS IS WHERE WE CREATE THE AVATAR:

Copy the framed tube layer, and paste as a new image.

Leave it for now – we’ll come back it shortly

Merge together the 2 wordart layers.

Selections – select all – float - defloat.

Layers – new raster layer. Fill with #2c2024.

Selections – modify – expand by 2.

Layers – new raster layer. Fill with #e86718

Deselect.

Move brown layer above the orange one

Add noise to the brown layer – Gaussian 50 monochrome box checked.

Set opacity of orange layer to 50. Dropshadow orange layer.

Merge together the 2 dotted line layers.

Selections – select all – float - defloat.

Layers – new raster layer. Fill with #2c2024

Deselect.

Inner bevel and dropshadow.

Fireworks – Paste above smaller rectangle layer and move left.

Duplicate – mirror

Bats – Resize 60%. Paste above border circle layer and move right.

Dropshadow.

Curly ribbon orange – Paste above bats layer and move left.

Copy & paste your main tube on top of all other layers. Dropshadow.

Delete all original template layers.

Add any other embellishments of choice.

Crop & resize if desired.

Add copyrights and name.

AVATAR

Go back to the new image with the 2 framed tubes that you pasted earlier. Delete one of the framed pictures, and move the other to the centre.

Curly ribbon orange – Resize 50%. Paste to the left. Duplicate – mirror.

Sharpen & dropshadow.

Merge visible.

Copy this and paste as a new image again. This is your avatar!

Add copyrights.

I find I have to save avatars as a jpg, or they go a funny colour when you paste them in your profile.