A Misfits Halloween
This tutorial was created by me on September 27, 2008.
Any similarities to any other tutorial are purely accidental and not intentional.
Please do not copy or post on another site without permission.
Supplies needed:
PSP
(I wrote this in X but any version will work)
Animation Shop
Tube (if desired)
Font of choice
(I used Pussycat and BlackJack )
Mask: WSL_Mask133 by Chelle HERE
Scrap Kit: “Grim Halloween” by Yvette of Misfits Scrapz HERE
Put your mask in your Mask folder
Open a new canvas, 700 X 600, background = white
Open Yvette_GrimHalloween_Frame2
Image > Rotate right
Resize 40%
Copy and paste onto your canvas
Free rotate 8 degrees left and sharpen
Open Yvette_GrimHalloween_Frame3
Image > Rotate right
Resize 40%
Copy and paste onto your canvas
Free rotate 8 degrees left
Center and position frames so bottom corners are overlapping
Merge frames
Activate your magic wand and click inside purple frame
Selections > Modify > Expand by 3
Open Yvette_GrimHalloween_Paper12
Copy and paste as new layer onto your canvas
Selections > Invert
Hit delete and deselect
Drag below Frame layer
Duplicate layer and free rotate 16 degrees left
Position behind green frame
Add the following drop shadow to your frame layer
0, 0, 75, 10, color = white
Open Yvette_GrimHalloween_Franky
Resize 60%
Copy and paste onto your canvas
Free rotate 8 degrees right
Position behind purple colored frame
Add same drop shadow
Yvette_GrimHalloween_Jack
Resize 50%
Copy and paste onto your canvas
Free rotate 8 degrees left
Position behind green colored frame
With your GrimHalloween_Jack layer still selected
Selections > Select All > Float > Defloat
Click on your frame layer and erase any of the frame covering the Jack
Deselect and click on Jack layer
Add same drop shadow
OpenYvette_GrimHalloween_Wrap1
Resize 25%
Copy and paste onto your canvas
Free rotate 8 degrees right
Position on top of purple frame
Use your raster deform tool to resize to fit frame
Sharpen and add same drop shadow but change color to black
Open Yvette_GrimHalloween_Wrap3
Resize 25%
Copy and paste onto your canvas
Free rotate 8 degrees left
Position to on top of green frame
Use your raster deform tool to resize to fit frame
Sharpen and add same drop shadow
Hide your white background and merge visible
Yvette_GrimHalloween_Moon
Resize 35%
Copy and paste onto your canvas
Free rotate 30 degrees right
Position top left of your canvas
Sharpen and add same drop shadow
Open Yvette_GrimHalloween_Tree
Resize 75%
Copy and paste onto your canvas and position on the left side
(see mine for placement)
Drag below Frame layer
Duplicate layer and mirror
Merge tree layers together and add same drop shadow but change color to white
Resize 75%
Copy and paste onto your canvas
Position towards bottom of canvas
Add same drop shadow
Open Yvette_GrimHalloween_Pumpkin2
Resize 35%
Copy and paste onto your canvas
Position bottom left of fence
Open Yvette_GrimHalloween_Pumpkin1
Resize 35%
Copy and paste onto your canvas
Drag below Pumpkin2 layer and position beside it
Merge pumpkins together
Sharpen and add same drop shadow
Open Yvette_GrimHalloween_
Resize 30%
Copy and paste onto your canvas
Position towards the right side of the fence
(see mine for placement)
Sharpen and add same drop shadow
Open Yvette_GrimHalloween_
Resize 30%
Image > Mirror
Copy and paste onto your canvas
Position on top of fence on left
Sharpen and add same drop shadow
Open Yvette_GrimHalloween_Toad
Resize 30%
Copy and paste onto your canvas
Position on fence in center
(see mine for placement)
Sharpen and add same drop shadow
Open Yvette_GrimHalloween_Spider
Resize 40%
Copy and paste onto your canvas
Position to right of your canvas
Sharpen and add same drop shadow
Rename Spider
Click on your moon layer
On your materials palette, change your foreground to black and your background to null
Using your pen tool (Mode = Draw lines and polylines, Width = 3)
Draw a line from the center of your spider up to the first tree branch
Convert to raster and rename Line
Click on your Layer Link Toggle on your layers palette
and click once
Click on your spider layer
Click on your Layer Link Toggle and click once
Both layers should be locked together with a value of 1
Open Yvette_GrimHalloween_Bat
Resize 40%
Copy and paste onto your canvas
Free rotate 20 degrees left
Position to left of your canvas by moon
Sharpen and add same drop shadow
Open Yvette_GrimHalloween_Hat
Resize 40%
Copy and paste onto your canvas
Free rotate 15 degrees left
Position to on top left of purple frame
Sharpen and add same drop shadow
Yvette_GrimHalloween_Bow2
Resize 25%
Copy and paste onto your canvas
Position on fence to right of frog
(see mine for placement)
Sharpen and add same drop shadow
Duplicate layer
Position on fence to left of frog
Hide your white background, spider, fence, frames, trees, and line layer
Merge visible
Merge your fence, frames and trees together
Click on your white background layer
Add a new raster layer
Flood fill with black
Layers > Load/Save Mask from Disk
Find WSL_Mask133 from drop down
Fit to Canvas, Source Luminance and Show all mask checked
Click Load
Merge Group
Yvette_GrimHalloween_Eyes3
Resize 90%
Copy and paste onto your canvas
Free rotate 20 degrees left
Position on right between tree branches
(see mine for placement)
Sharpen and add same drop shadow
rename Eyes 1
Duplicate layer and position to the right of the tree
Resize by 90% and free rotate 40 degrees right
Sharpen and rename Eyes 2
Duplicate layer and mirror
Rename Eyes 3
Click on Eyes 1 and duplicate layer
Zoom in on eyes
Click on your foreground in your materials palette and using your eyedropper, pick a color close to the pupil
Using your paint brush, on the duplicated layer, paint over the black circles in both eyes
Drag layer below Eyes 1 and hide
Click on Eyes 2 and duplicate layer
Zoom in on eyes
Click on your foreground in your materials palette and using your eyedropper, pick a color close to the pupil
Using your paint brush, on the duplicated layer, paint over the black circles in both eyes
Drag layer below Eyes 2 and hide
Click on Eyes 3 and duplicate layer
Zoom in on eyes
Click on your foreground in your materials palette and using your eyedropper, pick a color close to the pupil
Using your paint brush, on the duplicated layer, paint over the black circles in both eyes
Drag layer below Eyes 3 and hide
Image > Canvas Size (change height to 700)
Add any copyright and text
Image > Resize > 71% (all layers checked)
Crop off any unecessary whie background you don't want
Let’s Animate!
(you should have your 3 copies of eyes hidden)
Hide your white background layer
Edit > Copy Merged
Open Animation Shop
Ctrl V to paste as new animation
Back in PSP
Activate your mover tool and click on your spider
Hold your Ctrl key down and hit your up arrow once
Edit > Copy Merged
Back in AS
Ctrl L to paste before current frame
Back in PSP
Hide your 3 eyes layers and unhide your 3 copies of eyes layers
Activate your mover tool and click on your spider
Hold your Ctrl key down and hit your up arrow once
Edit > Copy Merged
Back in AS
Ctrl L to paste before current frame
Back in PSP
Hide your 3 copies of eyes layers and unhide your eyes layers
Hold your Ctrl key down and hit your up arrow once
Edit > Copy Merged
Back in AS
Ctrl L to paste before current frame
Animation > Animation Properties > Opaque/white
Animation > Frame Properties > 17
Resize to your liking and Save As
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