Weeping Willow

This tutorial requires basic knowledge of PSP and Animation shop.

This tutorial was written with PSP X2

Written by Willow September 22nd 2009

This tutorial is based on a design of my own concept and

any similarities are purely coincidental.

Any supplies that are supplied from me have been made by me and may not

be used in other tutorials or offered for download any where else.

Please do NOT link to my tutorial examples, screen shots, files or
graphics.


Thank you!


SUPPLIES

Tube Art Copyright Ismael Rac, you can purchase it at
AMI
Mask by Vaybs, you can download it
HERE
Quote on the moon by me. You can download that
HERE

FILTERS USED

Xenofex-Constellation (optional)

Eye Candy-Extrude (optional)

Xero-Radiance (optional)

Xero-Greyscaler (optional)

FONT USED

Luciferius

SCRAPS

Lacarolita-Scream at the Night. You can download that
HERE

Ok, let's get started!

Shadow setting I used for any shadows is..



Open your mask and Resize-Canvas size 900x900

Paste tube and place in left side of mask, to liking

Highlight mask layer

Click the inside black part of the mask with the magic wand

Invert

Highlight tube layer

Erase the bottom of her legs

Select none

Duplicate tube layer

Xero radiance on top tube layer to these settings
(if you do not have
Xero-radiance then skip to the step of highlighting the mask layer.)



Lower opacity of top tube layer to 55

Merge top tube layer to bottom tube layer

Highlight mask layer again

Click the inside black part of the mask with the magic wand

Paste close up of tube and place to the right of the mask, to liking

Invert

Hit delete

Xero-greyscaler to the following settings



If you do not have greyscaler then just use ADJUST-HUE and SATURATION

with both sliders on "0"

Lower opacity to 25

Open the Lacarolita_Scream at the Night Gate

Copy and paste onto your image

Resize 50%

See my example for placement.

Open the Lacarolita_Scream at the Night Moon

Resize by 50% and place in top right corner

See my example for placement.

Open the Lacarolita_Scream at the Night Crow1

Resize by 50% and place on the fence post by moon

See my example for placement.

Open the Lacarolita_Scream at the Night Lighting

Resize by 50%

See my example for placement.

Duplicate the lightening

Mirror

Opacity 25% and move behind the main tube

Open my quote and place over moon

Change layer settings to burn

Open your Luciferius font

Choose your font tool and find Luciferius in your font list

Size 72

Type out "Living Dead Girl" or words of your choice

Right click on your font layer in your layer palette and convert to
raster layer

Selections-Select All-Float-Defloat

Selections-Modify-Expand-3

New raster layer

Fill with #c0c0c0

Adjust-Add/Remove noise, settings on "random-monochrome-100"

Move colored noise layer under the "Living Dead Girl" text

Merge text down onto colored noise layer

Eye Candy-Extrude on these settings



Open the Lacarolita_Scream at the Night Spider1

Resize by 50% 2 times.

See my example for placement.

Now make sure to add your Copyright and Name

(for my name and copyright I used Image-Free Rotate and 90 degrees)

Choose your selection tool,
set on rectangle and select completely
around your image,
don't cut anything off,
and choose Image-Crop
to selection.

ANIMATION

Duplicate the top lightening bolt 2 times, making a total of 3
lightening layers

Highlight the first one and use

Add/Remove Noise, settings on "random-monochrome-30"

Xenofex-Constellation, on the settings shown below
(if you don't
have constellation then just do the Add/Remove Noise steps.)



Highlight the second lightening bolt layer and

Add/Remove Noise, settings on "random-monochrome-35"

Xenofex-Constellation again, don't change anything but click the "Random
Seed" once

Highlight the third lightening bolt layer and

Add/Remove Noise, settings on "random-monochrome-40"

Xenofex-Constellation again, don't change anything but click the "Random
Seed" once

OPEN ANIMATION SHOP

In PSP hide the top 2 lightening layers then "COPY MERGED" on your image

Go into Animation shop and PASTE as NEW animation
Back in PSP hide the first lightening layer, unhide the 2nd one and
again

"COPY MERGED"

In Animation shop, paste after current frame

Back in PSP hide the 2nd lightening layer, unhide the 3rd one and again

"COPY MERGED"

In Animation shop, paste after current frame

In Animation shop choose Edit-Select all

Choose Animation-Frame Properties

Change number to 17

File-SAVE AS...

There ya go!! Happy Tagging!!!