Batty about you

 

 This tutorial was written by Mizteeque on 16th September 2025, and assumes a working knowledge of psp.

Any similarity to other works is unintentional and purely coincidental.

Supplies HERE

Font of choice

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

open blank canvas 800 x 800

floodfill white

c/p splatter

foreground color - #ffb006

background color - #fffbe6

make a fore/back gradient

sunburst, angle/repeats 0

preset shapes tool - ellipse 

hold down the shift key while your draw out a large circle in the middle of your canvas, 

Objects - align - center in canvas

convert to raster

Dodge Brush

settings : size 400, hardness 17, step 25, density 100, thickness 100, rotation 0, opacity 32

click in the middle of your circle twice

duplicate the circle

adjust - blur - gaussian blur 10

layers - arrange - move down

merge the two moon layers together

select all, float, defloat

new raster layer

floodfill with #d65a07

deselect

selection tool - circle - feather 50(ish)

draw out a large selection in the middle, but not quite to the edge

hit delete button several times until it looks how you like it

deselect

merge with the moon layer

c/p witch hat, resize 50

rotate left 21

position top left so it looks like its sitting on the moon 

(you may have to move your moon down the canvas a little)

using your freehand selection tool, feather set to 1

carefully select along the brim of the hat from one side of 

the moon to the other (see my screenshot)

hit delete

Deselect

dropshadow

If you want to add a bit more definition, 

then use your burn brush on the moon layer under 

the hat brim to make it look a bit more shadowed

c/p web, position top right 

erase any parts of the web that overlap the brim of the witches hat

dropshadow

c/p bat as new layer

resize 30

eye candy 5 impact - perspective shadow

position bottom right

c/p pumpkins, position bottom right, in front of bat

c/p spider, resize 50

position so its hanging from the web

duplicate and resize 70

position duplicate hanging from the witches hat

c/p beading

position along the brim of the hat

dropshadow

c/p wordart

add your name, license and copyright information 

delete white background layer

merge visible

crop and save as png