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Halloween Card. How to create creepy skull with the pumpkin brains effect with photoshop. Free skull brushes and card elements.

 

  • Create a new Photoshop document, adjust size and resolution, use settings from the screen shot below. You may choose different size, but some tutorial settings are depending of the image size.

  • Apply Radial Gradient Overlay effect to the background layer (unlock the first layer before, move lock icon to recycle bin).

  • Use following settings:

  • Apply Gradient Overlay layer style effect to this layer:

Halloween Card How to create letters from pumpkin image with photoshop Free pumpkin brushes

Halloween Card How to create letters from pumpkin image with photoshop Free pumpkin brushes

  • Download skull brushes, choose the one 300 px size, and draw some silhouettes around the card edges.

Halloween Card How to create letters from pumpkin image with photoshop Free pumpkin brushes

  • Then choose Text Tool, I used "Algeria" font, but other serif style fonts with the uppercase lettering can be used to get similar sharp torn effects. Make the first and the last letters of the sign larger then others.

Halloween Card How to create letters from pumpkin image with photoshop Free pumpkin brushes

  • Convert text layer to the shape, right click layer thumbnail and choose "convert to shape". Transform the text shape, stretch it by vertical, then apply Warp transformation.

Halloween Card How to create letters from pumpkin image with photoshop Free pumpkin brushes

  • Select Arc Upper transformation and move top center point bottom like on the image below.

Halloween Card How to create letters from pumpkin image with photoshop Free pumpkin brushes

  • You should get something like this.

Halloween Card How to create letters from pumpkin image with photoshop Free pumpkin brushes

  • Rasterize the text layer. Go to Filter > Liquify. Use 80-130 px Forward Warp Tool to modify and extend letters corners.

Halloween Card How to create letters from pumpkin image with photoshop Free pumpkin brushes

Halloween Card How to create letters from pumpkin image with photoshop Free pumpkin brushes

Halloween Card How to create letters from pumpkin image with photoshop Free pumpkin brushes

  • Process each letter and apply layer style effects to the modified text layer.

Halloween Card How to create letters from pumpkin image with photoshop Free pumpkin brushes

Halloween Card How to create letters from pumpkin image with photoshop Free pumpkin brushes

Halloween Card How to create letters from pumpkin image with photoshop Free pumpkin brushes

Halloween Card How to create letters from pumpkin image with photoshop Free pumpkin brushes

Halloween Card How to create letters from pumpkin image with photoshop Free pumpkin brushes

  • Create a new empty layer and choose second smaller 200px "skull" brush to create some silhouettes around the text. Then apply to the skulls layer the same style effects as for the text layer.

Halloween Card How to create letters from pumpkin image with photoshop Free pumpkin brushes

Halloween Card How to create letters from pumpkin image with photoshop Free pumpkin brushes

  • Insert pumpkin and stalk images.

Halloween Card How to create letters from pumpkin image with photoshop Free pumpkin brushes

  • Duplicate pumpkin layer, keep duplicate for the future actions.
  • Apply Levels adjustment to the first one, make pumpkin image darker.

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