Halloween Themed Photo Manipulation (Ghostly old mansion)

A simple Halloween or "scary" photo manipulation can be accomplished with little photo editing experience. With a little help from Corel Photo-Paint I'll show you how to take three different photos, and using layers and some tweaking of blending options, create a scary photo.


Things you'll need:
-a copy of Corel Photo-Paint (I'm using version X5, which can also be downloaded for a free 30 day trial at corel.com)
-three different pictures which you want to manipulate/combine
-a basic background image
-a texture ( to help give it a little bit of "age"
-a photo of a person/people (preferrably an "old-timey" photo in black and white)
-about 30 minutes (depending on skill level)

Step 1 Halloween Themed Photo Manipulation (Ghostly old mansion) : Picking your photos

Like I said in the first step you'll want to pick three different photos which will be manipulated to form one "ghostly" photo.

I have chosen:
-a picture of a rocking chair in a room by itself (nothing scary here - found this at morguefile.com a royalty free photo site)
-a texture of the cover of an old leather book (I found this online - make sure it's royalty free)
-an old picture of a woman sitting in the grass (this too was royalty free and found online)