Autumn

Open a new image

Set your foreground to #b93e2b

Set your background to #e19d53

Select the flood fill tool. Right click on the canvas. Right clicking flood fills the canvas the background colour.

Go to Selections > Load/Save Selection > Load Selection From Disc. Make sure invert Selection is selected.

Click on the Cut icon or press the delete key on your keyboard.

You will now have this:

Go to Effects > Texture > Texture and use the settings in the screenshot.

Open the tube and click on the lady layer.

Click on the copy icon or go to Edit > Copy.

Click on the Paste > As New Layer icon or go to Edit > Paste As New Layer

You will now have this:

Click on the tube canvas and click on the copyright information layer. Go to Edit > Copy

Click on the new canvas and go to Edit > Paste > As New Layer. use the mover tool to position the copyright information.

Go to Layers > New Raster

Click on the tube tool and select the 'autumn leaves'

Click on the canvas. If the leaf that goes on the canvas isn't one you like, click on the undo icon and click again. Do this until you find a leaf you like. Use the mover tool to position it at the bottom left corner.

Go to Layers > New Raster Layer

Add another leaf

Go to Layers > New Raster Layer

Add another leaf and position it at the top left corner.

Go to Layers > New Raster Layer

Add another leaf and move it to the bottom left corner.

Go to Layers > New Raster Layer

Click on the text tool and use the settings in the screenshot.

Move the text to the right side of the canvas...keep selected.

Go to Effects > 3D Effects > Inner Bevel and use the settings in the screenshot.

Go to Effects > 3D Effects > Drop Shadow and use the settings in the screenshot.

Add another drop shadow but change the -3 to 3

Add the drop shadow to every layer. Now add the drop shadow again to every layer but change the vertical and horizontal back to -3.

Go to Layers > New Raster Layer

Move the new layer to the bottom of the layer palette.

Flood fill with the orange

Turn off the visibility of the flood filled layer and right click on the next layer above. Go to Merge > Merge Visible.

Click on the crop tool and click on the 'Snap crop rectangle to Layer opaque'

Click on the tick to perform the crop.

Go to Image > Add borders and use the setting in the screenshot.

Select the border with the magic wand. Flood fill it with the red. Add the same inner bevel that you added to the text.

Go to Image > Resize and use the settings in the screenshot.

Go to Adjust > Sharpness > Sharpen. Now click on the copy icon or go to Edit > Copy. Open Animation Shop and go to Edit > Paste > As New Animation

Click on the 'duplicate frames' icon 3 times. This will give you 5 frames. Click on frame 5 to select it.

Click on the 'delete frames' icon

Open the noise leaves. Click on one to make it active and go to Animation > Resize Animation. Resize by 60% or smaller if you wish.

With the resized leaf still the active canvas, press ctrl and a then ctrl and c on your keyboard. Click on the lady canvas and on your keyboard, press ctrl and a then ctrl and e. This will paste the leaf onto the lady canvas. Move the leaf to where you want it and click once to position it.

Now...resize the other leaves...any sizes you like, then copy and paste them onto the lady canvas. The idea, is to fill the left side of the canvas with the leaves but still leaving some of the original leaves showing.

Save and you're done :o)

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