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You will need

Xenofex 2

FM Tile Tools

My zip file HERE

1: Open a new transparent canvas 600 4X 475 and fill with black.

2: Open the ccd-0210moonclouds. Click on the bar at the top, copy. Back to the working canvas. Paste a a new layer.

Image resize by 65% bicubic. Move to the top right as in the main graphic. Change the blend mode to Luminance Legacy.

3: Open the ametista_Kerguehenne_castle_10 tube. Click on the bar at the top, copy. Back to the working canvas. Paste a a new layer. Position as in the main graphic.

Hold down the mouse on the gray frame around the graphic and pull the sides and the bottom out a little.

Using the deform tool pull the side out to fit the canvas and down a little as in my main graphic.

Image duplicate. Merge, merge down.

4: Effects plugins FM tile tools blend emboss with the default settings.

5: Open the KAT_2007_020655 tube. Click on the bar at the top, copy. Back to the working canvas. Paste as a new layer.

Image resize by 80% making sure all layers is not checked.

Effects plugins FM tile tools blend emboss with the default settings.

6: Open the AH_Women_0209_08 tube. Click on the bar at the top, copy. Back to the working canvas. Paste as a new layer.

Image resize by 80% making sure all layers is not checked. Repeat resize once more by 80% then resize once by 90%.

Position as in main graphic.

To the left of the tube you will see a small vertical white line. Remove this with the eraser.

Adjust sharpness, sharpen.

7: Still working on the layer with the AH_Women_0209_08 tube select the Change To Target brush and set your foreground to black. Go over the water at the bottom of the crypt the woman is laying on with the brush to make it a dark gray. Do not go over the water coming from the side of the crypt.

Lower the opacity to 65%.

Layers duplicate.

With the eraser remove the water at the bottom that you coloured black on the top copy.

Layers merge down.

8: Effects plugins FM tile tools blend emboss with the default settings.

9: Open the dmshalloweentext tube. Click on the bar at the top, copy. Back to the working canvas. Paste as a new layer.

Position as in the main graphic.

10: Effects plugins FM tile tools blend emboss with the default settings.

11: When you are happy with how everything is positioned. Layers merge visible.

12: Image resize 85% making sure all layers is checked. Adjust sharpness, sharpen.

Apply your watermark if you wish to do so at this point.

13: Duplicate this layer twice for a total of 3 layers.

14: X out the top 2 layers and make sure the bottom layer is active.

Effects plugins Xenofex 2 Fluffy Little Clouds with the following settings.

15: Move to the second layer from the bottom and remove the X to make it visible.

Apply the Fluffy Little Clouds with the same settings but hit the random seed once.

16: Move to the top layer. Remove the X to make it visible.

Apply the Fluffy Little Clouds with the same settings but hit the random seed once more.

17: Save as a PSP image.

Animation

1: Open your image in animation shop. Pull on the right side so as all layers are open.

2: Edit select all.

3: Animation, frame properties 45 (or a setting you prefer)

4: Save as a gif image and you are all done.

This tutorial was written by Diane M. Stanley on September 29, 2008.

Any similarity to any other tutorial is purely coincidental. No copyright infringement is intended as this is purely for the learning experience gained through creating this tag.

This tutorial must not be passed through e-mail, groups or by any other method without written permission from myself.

Thank you to Geri for testing this tutorial.