The images needed for this project are on my website. Create a new image: 10 IN height and 16 IN width, 300 dpi.
Create a new layer and fill the layer with white.. Create a radial gradient by using following settings:
Create a new layer, name it pumpkins. Load the pumpkin brushes and use one of them to cover the background with pumpkins. SET THE LAYER BLEND TO OVERLAY. Change the Shape Dynamic, Scattering and Transfer settings as follows:
Install the Duncecap font. Type the word Halloween, Your Last Name or Welcome in white. Make sure it is centered, large and bold. Use 155 pt. font. I stretched my text vertically just a little bit.
Highlight the word you typed. From the menu bar, select the Character box. Change the vertical spacing to 100, see below: While the text tool is selected and the word is highlighted, select the text warp button, see below: Select Arc and set the horizontal bend to +5, see below: Right click on the text layer and choose Rasterize Type. Then right click on the text layer and choose Rasterize layer style. SAVE!
Open the pumpkin image. Make sure the image is 300 dpi. Make sure that the color pallet is set to default black and white and that your brush is set at 100% opacity. Using quick mask (Q), paint over the pumpkin. Press Q again, then select & inverse. Cmd C to copy the pumpkin and Cmd V to paste the pumpkin on your Text image. Duplicate the pumpkin layer several times and close the eyeball on the layers you are not using.
Transform the pumpkin layer and make it thinner and place the pumpkin above the one of the letters. Name the layer the name of the letter. In order to make pumpkin shape closer to the letter shape under it, choose Edit/Free Transform/Warp. Drag corners handles and corners to change the shape. Make sure to keep the stem visible. save! Create a clipping mask between the pumpkin layer and the text.
Do the same thing for each letter. Be sure to name the layer the letter that it takes shape.
Merge the text layer and all of the pumpkins together. Apply an Inner Shadow and Bevel & Emboss, see below: 841408 feded1 a00203 Image should look like the one below:
In order to create pumpkin tendrils, Create a new layer, use the pen tool (not the pen & pad) and create as shown below. Use the convert pen tool to round out and twist the vine.
Select a small, hard paintbrush. Set the brush settings as shown below:
Set you paint color to white. Click on the Convert Pen tool, right click and choose Stroke Path. Make sure Simulate Pen Pressure is checked.
Your vines should look like the ones below:
Apply Gradient Overlay and Bevel Emboss effects to tendrils.
Here is result of Gradient and Bevel and Emboss effects: Create a new layer for each letter and do the same thing to create vines on each letter. It is important that they are on separate layers. After all of the vines have been completed we will create the reflection. Merge all the pumpkin and vines together. Go to Edit > Transform > Flip Vertical. Move the upside down layer below the original pumpkin text. Go to Edit > Transform > Warp > Arch, move arch center point so it curves as a reflection. Lower the layer opacity to 30% or whatever you feel looks best as a reflection.
We need to ceate a shadow between the original pumpkins and the reflection. Do the following: Choose the Ellipse Tool and create large round oval on a new layer between the original pumpkins and reflection layer. Fill with black. Go to Filter/Blur and apply a Gaussian Blur to the shape shape:
Go go Edit/Transform and reshape the oval as shown below: Then go to Edit > Transform > Warp > Arc Change the layer blend mode to multiply and lower the opacity to 55%.
Duplicate the original pumpkin layer and turn the fill down to zero. Apply the following layer styles: Select the pumpkin brush and make it small. Set the foreground color to fca807. Set the brush settings so the shape dynamic is set to pen pressure. Leave the other brush settings the same. Create a new layer and create a straight path like the one above, stroke the path. Add a few more paths on the layer and stroke them. Set the layer blends as below:
Insert the Fire flame image. Make a duplicate of this layer to create a reflection. Transform the reflection duplicate upside down and move it down just like on the image below. Stay on the reflection layer and Go to Filter/ Blurr/ Lens Blur. Apply Screen Blending Mode to both flame layers. Lower the opacity on the reflective flame layer so it looks like a reflection. Now you are finished. Add you signature on the bottom right corner of you image. SAVE! Then save as a.jpeg and add to the gallery.