This tutorial was written by me on October 4th, 2012 and is my own creation. Any resemblance to any other tutorial is purely coincidental and unintentional.

PSP Version used: PSP9, but should work in other versions.

This tutorial assumes you have a good working knowledge of PSP.

Supplies:

Tube of choice. I am using the work of Alex Prihodko. You can find his tubes here. 

PTU Spook It kit by Sinister Creations. You can purchase this kit here. 

Template 68 by Millie's PSP Madness. You can find it here. 

VixMask Halloween0901 by VixPSP.  You can find it here. 

Font of choice. I am using Zombified.

Filters: Eye Candy 4000 Gradient Glow

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Open your template and mask. Minimize your mask for now.

On your template, delete the credit layer. Set the canvas size to 750 x 750. Resize all layers by 80%.

In the materials palette, set your foreground to #8a0202 and your background to #ff7e00. Click on your foreground and select the gradient tab. Select the Foreground-background gradient, angle 45, repeats 3, invert checked, style linear. On your background layer, floodfill with your gradient. Now apply your mask, merge group. Add noise, gaussian, 100, monochrome checked.

Merge together layers 1 and 2. Select all, float, defloat. Open paper 1. Copy and paste as a new layer. Selections, invert and press delete. Deselect and delete the original layer.

On layer 3, select all, float, defloat. Open paper 2. Copy and paste as a new layer. Selections, invert and press delete. Deselect and delete the original layer. Repeat for layer 7.

On layer 4, add noise using the same settings as before.

Merge together laysers 5 and 6. Select all, float, defloat. Open paper 3. Copy and paste as a new layer. Selections, invert and press delete. Deselect and delete the original layer.

On layer 8, select all, float, defloat. Open paper 7. Copy and paste as a new layer. Selections, invert and press delete. Deselect and delete the original layer.

Merge together layers 9 and 10. Manual color correction. Set the source to #c0c0c0 and the target to #ffffff.

Merge together layers 11 and 12.

Open your tube and resize as needed. Copy and paste your tube over the black square on the left side. Duplicate and mirror. Place to your liking and merge the tubes together. On the black square layers, select all, float, defloat. On your tube layer, selections, invert and press delete. Deselect. Duplicate the tube layer again, gaussian blur 3.00. Set the blend mode to screen, opacity 78. On the original layer, set the blend mode to luminance (L), opacity 60.

On the black square layer again, select all, float, defloat. Selections, modify, set selection borders, both sides checked, border width 3, anti-alias checked. Add a new raster layer above your tube layers and floodfill with black. Add noise with the same settings as before.

Open the spider web. Resize by 20%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the right side of your canvas.

Open banner halloween 2. Resize by 25%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the top of your template layers.

Open the cane. Resize by 90%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Move slightly to the right. Duplicate and mirror. Move this layer so the cane is over the other one. See my tag for reference.

Open your tube again and resize as necessary. Copy and paste as a new layer. Move so the bottom edge meets the bottom edge of your template layers.

Open the barbed wire. Resize by 40%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the bottom.

Open the creepy zombie coffin. Resize by 55%, mirror. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the bottom right corner.

Open the blood dripping lips. Resize by 50%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the upper left corner. Rotate slightly to the left.

On the wordart layer, Eye Candy 4000 Gradient Glow. Under the basic tab, set the glow width to 3.00. Under the color tab, select the fat preset.

Open the eye candle. Resize by 25%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the bottom left of the coffin.

Open the poison bottle. Resize by 60%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the bottom left corner.

Open the cup cake spider. Resize by 25%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place down and to the right of the poison bottle.

Add your name, copyright and license info.

Add a drop shadow of choice and then merge visible. Save as a PNG.

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