It looks better than the menu

The dark patch was the result of applying one of the adjustment layers. I tried following the tut but somehow the values called for gave a different result. I think it was the levels adjustment layer. I had tried brightness/contrast but as you can see it messed up even more. I dl'd the brush tree sets plus some others. I'm going to start it from scratch. Here is the image I started with.

Honestly, Uvah? OK... I'd make the bats more 'realistic' and detailed. Resize the grave marker. Spider web and foreground tree more detailed. Use some fog in between the trees and spiderweb. Just my 2 cents.

You could do it all with brushes. Everything in this one (yeah, I know, it's one of my older works) is either brushes or free hand.

Barb.. The pic is just a little muddy/blurry, I think it needs a little more in bg too, maybe a harvest moon or a creepy house?

If it's the one I think it is, I had issues with it as well.

http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/photo-effects-tutorials/how-to-create-a-fantasy-photo-manipulation/

This is the one. The image I posted is duplicated in the wall, flipped horizontally then merged and cropped. Used the clone tool to add more trees and change the grass to break up the symmetry.

It's not the one I thought it was.

Keep going. Screw the symmetry. Once you get some objects in there, they will distract from it. I like the final outcome in the tutorial. I'd like it even more if they lost that model. She's all wrong for the final product.

Sorry, I've never done this include image thing before. This is a Halloween wall I have been messing with for a while. Any input would be appreciated. Time is getting short.

Frankie, I recommend losing the vulture and maybe 1 or 2 of the bats. It seems a bit crowded there. The vulture is a large bird...much larger than a crow, and they are on the same tree. The scale is off.

The bat in front of the moon is perfectly positioned, but you can see through him.

That's an excellent creepy house.

On the gravestones, I recommend a few bits of grass in front of them, so they look like they are in the grass rather than on it. Maybe a few bits of grass in front of the skull too, so it looks like it's been there a while.

I agree with Xiandi, (it's crowded) but I would lose a few of the ghosts, and the concrete crypt.  The concrete crypt is something you find in areas that are prone to flooding (I believe--there are a lot of them in the deep south); it seems out of place with the rest of the grave markers being a different kind.

agreed. too busy.