Jack - O'Lantern

1. Open a new image that is 300 wide by 300 high , RGB 72 ppi, white. Hit your D key to set your default colors and use your paint bucket to fill the background with black.
 

2. Insert a new layer. Click Filter=>Render=>3D transform.

Select the Sphere. Click options. Set the following:

1. Resolution = high
2. Anti-aliasing = high
3. display background= off

Click the rotate tool and rotate your image so the back side, which is solid is turned around to the front

Then click ok.

3. Click Image=> Adjust=> Hugh/saturation

• colorize on
• hue = 27
• Saturation = 100
• Lightness = -50
  

4. Insert a new layer.

5. Select the oval marquee and select a narrow oval on the new layer, layer2, through the center of the circle.
Click Edit=> Stroke. Set stroke

• width =4 pixels.
• color=White,
• location = center
• opacity = 100%

6. Use the oval marquee again to select an oval just outside the narrow first oval.

Stroke this circle with the same settings.

Repeat this procedure of stroking ovals, increasing in width over and over till you have covered the orange circle.

7. Click Select=> All, Then edit=> Copy.

8. Click on the channels panel. insert a new channel. Click on your alpha 1 channel and Click Edit paste. Click Select=> Deselect.

9. While alpha1 is highlighted, click Filter=> Blur=> Gaussian blur set to 6.7.

10. Click Image=>adjust=>Levels. Move the right carrot to the left till the right hand box registers 110.

11. Click Image=>Adjust=> Invert.

12. Click back on the layers panel. turn layer 2 off and highlight layer 1 (orange circle).

13. Click Filter=>Render=> Lighting Effects

• Light type = Spotlight- on
• intensity = 34
• focus= 69
• gloss = 0
• material=69
• exposuer=0
• ambience=8
• texture channel = alpha1
• white is high
• height= 67.

14. Use the move tool to move the pumpkin down. Insert a new layer.

15.Click Filter=>Render=>3d transform

Select the cylinder tool and draw a cylinder.

Set the options to hiigh quality again

Rotate the cylender to bring the solid section around, and so the top is tilted toward you so you can see it.

Click ok. Please ermeember this will be resized later.

16. Click Image=>Adjust=> Hue/Saturation.

• colorize checked
• hue 32
• saturation =36
• Lightess = -37

17. Click Filter=>Noise=> Add Noise

• ammount = 25%
• distribution = uniform
• monochromatic = checked.

18. control click the cylinder layer. Click Filter=>Blur=>Motion Blur.

• angle= 90 degrees
• distance = 8 pixels

19. Click Select=> Deselect

Click Filter=> Distort => Shear.

Adjust the line so you get a bent stem, somewhat twisted..

20. Click your move tool. Check the option for show bounding boxes. Resize and position the stem on top of the pumpkin, slightly overlapping the top.

21. On the stem later click the mask button on the bottom of the layers palette.

Use a hard paintbrush to paint black in the mask to follow the contour of the top of the pumpkin.

Click layer=> merge down to merge your pumpkin and stem.

Click Layer=> New adjustmet layer=> Hue Saturation. Set the lightness down to -40.

22. Insert a layer. Draw your face on this layer in black.

23. Control click your face layer. and insert another layer. Set your foreground color to #FFFF99 and background color to hex #FF6600

24. Select the gradient tool with radial gradient option. Draw a gradient from the center to the edge of the pumpkin..

25. Insert a new layer and redraw your gradient, with a little variation in the way you draw it. Do this again on another layer.

26. Turn the black face layer off. Double click the top layer.

Check inner shadow.

• Set blend to normal

• yellow # ffffcc

• opacity 72%

• angle = 145

• distance 8 pixels

• choke =0

• size = 5

Check stroke. Set size to 1 pixel, outside, normal, opacity 100%, color, hex #CC6600

Copy this layer style to the other two layers the the face in the gradient.

27. Switch to image ready by clicking the image ready button on the bottom of the tool bar or hitting file=>switch to=> image ready

IMAGE READY

28. Open the animation panel. The first image is already there on the animation panel. Click the downward arrow right under where it says 0 seconds. Select 0.1 seconds.

29. Click the duplicates current frame button. Turn off the top layer. Make sure the next gradient face layer is on. Set the timing for this frame at 0.2 sec.

30. Click the add a picture button. turn off the current gradient face layer. Make the next Gradient face layer active. Set the timing for this fra,e os set tp 0.1 seconds.

31.Saving: Click file=> Save optmized as and select your location, name and image as gif.