Haunted House

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You will need the following to complete this

PART 1: Preparing the House

1. Open a New Canvas that is 600 wide by 550 high, 72 ppi, RGB white. Hold your control key down and hit your letter i to invert the background to black.

2. Open the night sky image. Use your move tool to drag your night sky onto your image and place it up at the top of your canvas. We will position it later.

3. Open your Victorian house. Use your move tool to move this onto your canvas. Position this image so that it butts up to the bottom of the canvas.

4.  Use your polygonal lasso to lasso the house and grass areas. add and subtract from selection to get the house and grass  Click the "Add Layer Mask" button.
 

5 Paint black with a hard brush on the layer mask in the porch arches on the right side to remove the background there. Paint black between the lamppost on the right and the house .
6. Right click the mask and select apply layer mask. Then click layer=> matting=> Defringe. Set the width to 20 pixels.
 

7. Use the Move tool to move the sky up and to the left over the house. Paint black over the watermark.

8. Open the cemetery image.  Use the magic wand set to add to selection, no feather, and 35 tolerance to select the sky. Click select=> inverse.

9. Select the move tool and drag it  onto your haunted house canvas. This layer should be sandwiched between the moon layer and the house layer. Click layer=>matting=> defringe. Set the width to 20 pixels.

10. Set the layer mode to hard light. Drag this layer to the right side of the house. Duplicate this layer. Click edit=> transform => flip horizontal. Use the move tool to move this layer ce3metery to the left side of the house.

Continue to Part 2