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For this tutorial you will need Paint Shop Pro 7, and this zip file Unzip the selection to your selection folder, the wood1 in your PSP Textures folder and open the other images in your PSP window.

1. Open a new image 600x330, add a new layer and go to Selections>Load from disk>APn1.sel. On your Styles Palette select color #2F097B on your Foreground and on your Textures Palette select "wood1" texture, and flood fill the letter N, on your Tool Options make sure you have 'RGB Value' selected on 'Match mode', add a new layer and flood fill the letter O, add a new layer and flood fill the letter E, add a new layer and flood fill the letter L, now each letter have its own layer. Deselect.

NOTE: We will be changing the the color on the Foreground but the texture will be the same.

2. Go back to the letter "N" layer and add a drop shadow: Color #220C54, Horizontal and Vertical "-4", Opacity "60" and Blur "1.2".

3. Repeat step 2 but this time with the letter "O" and on the drop shadow change the Horizontal to "4"

4. Repeat step 2 with the letter "E" and drop shadow with same settings.

5. Repeat step 2 with letter "L" and on the drop shadow change the Horizontal to "0". Turn off visibility of Layer 1 and merge visible, add a new layer, load APn1.sel again and flood fill with white, change that layer to Dissolve and lower the opacity to 1.

6. Add a new layer and go to Selections>Load from disk>APn2.sel, change your Foreground color to #065A06 and flood fill the big tree twice, change your Foreground color to #179F17 and flood fill the small tree twice, deselect, add a drop shadow: Color #EEEAE1, Vertical "-4" Horizontal "0" Opacity and Blur remain the same as before.

7. Add a new layer and go to Selections>Load from disk>APn5.sel, flood fill with color #7B5607, go to Selections>Load from disk>APn4.sel, change your Foreground color to #D2D40E and flood fill, change your Foreground color to White and go to Selections>Modify>Contract "2" and flood fill twice, go to Selections>Load from disk>APn6.sel and flood fill twice with color #A43232 deselect and add a drop shadow: Vertical "-2" and Horizontal "4".

8. You can decorate your snowman any way you want it, for the eyes I used the Paintbrush size 4 shape round, and for the mouse I used the same but size 2, for the pompon on the hat I used the same in color white and size 22, then added KPT5 Fiber Optic, in case you don't have this filter I have added the tube in the zip file :o) The white dots on the hat are size 2.

9. Add a new layer and go to Selections>Load from disk>APn7.sel, flood fill twice with color #FFFF00, add a drop shadow: Vertical and Horizontal "-3".

10. Add a new layer and go to Selections>Load from disk>APn8.sel, flood fill with white, go to Selections>Float, change color to #A43232 and with the Draw Tool Single Line, Width "14", Antialias Checked draw some lines crossing, deselect and add a drop shadow same settings as Step 9.

11. Add a new layer and go to Selections>Load from disk>APn9.sel, flood fill twice with color #A43232 and add a drop shadow, same settings.

12. Add a new layer and go to Selections>Load from disk>APn10.sel, flood fill twice with color #179F17, go to Selections>Float, change color to white and with the Draw Tool Width "12" draw the ribbons, add a drop shadow, same settings, the bow tube comes with PSP I used size 24.

13. With the Draw Tool Freehand Line, Width "2", Antialias and Create as Vector "Checked" Foreground Black, Background Null, draw an spiral from the sleigh to the gift, click on your Object Selector Tool and right click on your vector image and you can fix your spiral, when you are happy with your spiral go to Layers>Convert to Raster Layer; if you can't do it you can load APn3.sel and flood fill with black. Go to Effects>3D Effects>Inner Bevel and apply the Metallic preset. If you want the spiral for the snowman load APn3a.sel, don't forget each one has to be on a separate layer.

14. Add a new layer and go to Selections>Load from disk>APn11.sel, flood fill twice with color #8D1111, float the selection and with the Draw Tool Freehand Line, Width "12" Antialias Checked draw the borders of the pants and the sleeves, deselect.

15. On the same layer go to Selections>Load from disk>APn12.sel, flood fill twice with white, load APn14.sel and flood fill with the same red as the pants, load APn15.sel and flood fill with the red plaid, Scale 40 and Angle 358, deselect and add a drop shadow: Vertical "-4", Horizontal "1".

16. Add a new layer, move it under the Santa layer, turn Foreground to Null and Background to Black and with your Preset Shapes Tool Ellipse, Antialias Checked, draw two ellipses for the hands, you can move them with your Deformation Tool when you have your hands do the same for the shoes.

17. Add a new layer, load APn16.sel and flood fill with the fabric pattern provided in the zip file, add a new layer and invert selections and add a drop shadow: Color Black, Vertical and Horizontal "6", Opacity "50" and Blur "11.8"; add a new layer and with your Rope Tube, Scale 15 draw the string for the bag.

18. Open the hinger tube (each one it's on a different layer) copy and paste as a new layer, position it and then paste as a new selection.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial, if you have any questions or comments please email me

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