Witches Brew

Supplies

Jasc/Corel's Paint Shop Pro. 

Tube of Choice -  For this tutorial, I used a delightful image created by Suzanne Woolcott.  You can purchase her wonderful art in tube and full form at AMI which stands for Artistic Minds, Inc. 

Accessories - Witches Brew Template, ghost psp file and animated witch file. The template graphic and ghost graphic were both from Microsoft Clipart Media, a great place to find a variety of graphics.

Please remember, when creating your signature tags, to only use permission art and to apply the copyright information on the tag.  If  you have purchased a commercial image, do add your license number as well.

**When creating your Signature tags with Paint Shop Pro, do remember to save continually.  Nothing worse than to use up your memory resources and lose everything!**

 

CREATING THE TAG

Step 1

Open up the witches brew template and your tube graphic. Make your tube graphic active and go to Edit/Copy.  Make the witches brew template active and go to Edit/Paste as New Layer.  If your image is too large, go to Image/Resize using the percent option, bicubic and resize all layers NOT checked. Leave room on the tag on a totally black area to add the witch's brew animation.  This animation is surrounded by a black palette, so in order for it to work, it will need to blend with the black area of the tag.

Step 2

Open up your ghost graphic. Copy and paste it as a separate layer on the tag at the top of the roof.  See finished tag above.

Step 3

Go to Image/Resize using the percent option at 90%, bicubic and resize all layers checked.

Step 4

Go to Layers/New Raster Layer.

Add your text and copyright information. You can add your text directly on the moon as I had done or elsewhere on the tag.

Step 5

Go to Layers/Merge/Merge All (flatten).

Step 6

Go to Layers/Duplicate.  Do this 10 more times, so you now have a total of 12 layers.

Step 7

Save your tag as a psp or psd file.  We will add the animated witch in animation shop.  Click here to continue.