Welcome to Halloween Town (FTU)

This tutorial was written on Oct 9th 2009 by Susan aka Hippiedaze.
The idea for this tag is off my own head and any resemblance is purely coincidence.
General Knowledge of psp is required, tutorial was written in psp 9 but will work in other versions.

Supplies Needed

Tubes of Choice I used the artwork of Elias Chatzoudis, you must have a proper license to use his work please visit MPT, mypsptubes - HERE .
FTU Scrap Kit 'Halloween Town' by Hippiedaze (me), this is my part of the Halloween Town Ghost Train and can be downloaded from - HERE.
Masks - A round mask of your choice for the background.
Mask Used - dmsk0406 (skeleton mask, this is optional) which can be found - HERE.

Open all supplies before you start & save mask to psp masks folder if you dont already have this ....

Lets Get Started....

Open a new image in your psp by going to file tab and select new, choose 500x500 white image, click ok.

Take the haunted house element from the kit and paste as a new layer on your working canvas, you will need to resize so go to image, select resize and choose to resize by around 50% , make sure you tick the smartsize box then click ok.

Activate the bottom white layer of your canvas and paste a paper of choice from the kit as a new layer, you can resize this a little if you want to but i left mine normal size, go to layers and select load mask from disc, in the drop list of masks look for the round mask you choose at the start use the following settings to add the mask to your canvas :-
Fit to canvas - checked .... Source luminace - checked .... Invert transparency - unchecked .... Hide Mask - checked, click ok, go to layers, merge group, I left this mask as it was but you can always use your deform tool to stretch the mask layer out a little till its how you want it & showing around your tag.

Activate the bottom white layer once more and paste a different coloured paper as a new layer, repeat the mask layer with the same mask again and once you have merged group use the deform tool to pull it out slightly more than the first mask, see mine as example.
I also used yet another mask below the house layer to create the devil figure up on the roof lol, its a halloween one that i have had a while and cannot find the link sorry so if you know it pls let me know so i can give credit.

Now take one of the tree elements from the kit and paste this as a new layer above your mask layers but below the house layer, go to image, select resize and resize the tree to your liking (not too big tho), move to the left side of your tag so its poking out from behind the house, when happy with placement and size go to layers and select duplicate, now go to image and select mirror so you have a tree on each side of the house.
I also duplicated the tree twice more and placed near the top so some branches were showing from behind house at the top but this is up to you.

Take the ghost element from the kit and paste this as a new layer on your working canvas, resize this to your liking, i made mine quite small, move ghost to the right side of the canvas so its poking from behind the house or in the trees, wherever you like lol then duplicate and move the second ghost to the left side of the tag and place where you like it.

Now make sure you are on the top layer of your canvas and take one of your tubes, paste as a new layer then go to image and select resize, resize bicubic remember lol, resize to your liking to suit your tag, move tube to left side of your canvas and add a drop shadow.
Take your second tube (by the same artist lol) and paste as a new layer, resize as needed and move this tube to the right side of your canvas, add the dropshadow to this layer also.

Choose one of the coffin elements from the kit and paste as a new layer, resize as needed, remember to change to smartsize, move the coffin down to near the bottom of the tag....

(optional step)

Now we're going to leave this canvas a minute and go to file, open a new blank transparent image about 400x400, click ok.

Take a paper from the kit and paste as a new layer, resize a little if you want to now go to layers and select load mask from disc, in the drop list of masks look for the skeleton mask you saved at the start (dmsk0406) use the following settings to add the mask to your canvas :-
Fit to canvas - checked .... Source luminace - checked .... Invert transparency - unchecked .... Hide Mask - checked, click ok, go to layers, merge group.

Copy the merged mask layer and go back to your working canvas and paste as a new layer, you may need to resize the skeleton to 'fit' the coffin, move skeleton down and position so it looks like its coming out of the coffin, you will notice the leg parts hang over the coffin so grab your eraser tool and carefully erase some parts of the leg, i left the hand hangin over tho. I lightened the skeleton to almost white by going to adjust, select brightness/contrast and move the brightness slider a little at a time to the right until you have a shade you like.

Decorate your tag now with any other elements you like from the kit and paste as new layers, resize each element as needed and place where you like them in your tag.

Crop or resize now if you wish to.

Add your name, artist info and copyright info.

Save as jpeg or .png.

Thanks for trying my tutorial and i hope you enjoyed it
would love to see your results,

hippiedaze@hotmail.com