© Christina Gibbs - October 25, 2002 - www.tcgibbs.com
This tutorial may not be copied and placed on another site without my written permission.
The image you create by following this tutorial belongs to you and you may do whatever you want with that.

This was made using Paint Shop Pro 7

You will need to download the selections and save them in a folder of your choice.

Here is the wood pattern I used for the window frame.

Open a new image 550 x 600 on a transparent background.

Selections - Load from disk - load the 1-background.sel and fill with your choice. I used part of a picture I made in Bryce.
If you would like to use the same one then open the santa-background.jpg in psp and go to Edit - Copy and then back to your image, load the 1-background.sel and go to Edit - Paste into selection.

Layers - New raster layer - load the 2-santacoat.sel and fill with #A24951, deselect.
On the same layer load the 3-santacoat.sel and go to Colors - Adjust - Brightness/Contrast
Brightness = -65 Contrast = 0 and deselect.
Still on the same layer load the 4-santacoat.sel and back to Colors - Adjust - Brightness/Contrast
Brightness = 60 Contrast = 0 and deselect.

Add a new raster layer and load the 5-santasleeve.sel, fill with the same color and deselect.
On the same layer load the 6-santasleeve.sel, Brightness = -65 Contrast = 0 and deselect.
On the same layer load the 7-santasleeve.sel, Brightness = 65 Contrast = 0 and deselect.

Add a new raster layer and load the 8-santaface.sel, fill with #DFC7AB and deselect.
Same layer load the 9-santaface.sel, Brightness = -50 Contrast = 0 and deselect.

Add a new raster layer and load the 10-santacheeks.sel, fill this selection twice using #D45261 then deselect and go to Effects - Blur - Gaussian Blur = 4

Add a new raster layer and load the 11-santabeard.sel, fill with #C0C0C0 and deselect.
Same layer load the 12-santabeard.sel and fill with white, deselect.
Same layer load the 13-santabeard.sel and fill with #E3E1E1, deselect.
Same layer load the 14-santamouth.sel and fill with #D45261, deselect.
Same layer load the 15-santabeard.sel and fill with #EEEEEE, deselect.
Same layer load the 16-santabeard.sel and fill with white, deselect.
Go to Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow with these settings,
Vertical = 1
Horizontal = 1
Opacity = 60
Blur = 12
Color = Black
and then Effects - Blur - Gaussian Blur = 1

Add a new raster layer and load the 17-santacoattrim.sel, fill with #C0C0C0 and deselect.
Same layer load the 18-santacoattrim.sel, fill with white and deselect.
Same layer load the 19-santacoattrim.sel and fill with #E3E1E1 deselect.
Apply the same drop shadow.
Apply the same gaussian blur.

Add a new raster layer, load the 20-santaeyes.sel and fill with black. You may need to zoom up for this one, its his eyelashes. Deselect
On the same layer load the 21-santaeyes.sel, go to Selections - Modify - Feather = 2 and then fill with black.
While still selected, go to Effects - 3D Effects - Inner Bevel using the default "Round" settings from the drop down menu and deselect.

Add a new raster layer and load the 23-santabeard.sel and fill with #C0C0C0, deselect.
On the same layer load the 24-santabeard.sel, fill with white and deselect.
On the same layer load the 25-santabeard.sel and fill with #E3E1E1, deselect.
Apply the same drop shadow.
Apply the same gaussian blur.

Add a new raster layer and load the 26-santanose.sel and fill with #DFC7AB, deselect.
On the same layer load the 27-santanose.sel and fill with #D45261, deselect.
On the same layer load the 28-santahighlights.sel and fill with white, deselect.

Add a new raster layer and load the 29-santaeyebrows.sel, fill with white and deselect.
On the same layer load the 30-santaeyebrows.sel and fill with #C0C0C0, deselect.
Apply the same gaussian blur.

Add a new raster layer and load the 31-santahat.sel, fill with the same as the coat #A24951 and deselect.
On the same layer load the 32-santahat.sel - Brightness = -65 Contrast = 0 and deselect.
On the same layer load the 33-santahat.sel - Brightness = 65 Contrast = 0 and deselect.

Add a new raster layer and load the 34-santahattrim.sel and fill with #C0C0C0, deselect.
On the same layer load the 35-santahattrim.sel and fill with white, deselect.
On the same layer load the 36-santahattrim.sel and fill with #E3E1E1, deselect.
Apply the same drop shadow, apply the same gaussian blur.

Add a new raster layer, load the 37-santagloves.sel, go to Selections - Modify - Feather = 2 and fill with #678570, deselect.
On the same layer load the 38-santagloves.sel, Brightness = -65 Contrast = 0 and deselect.
On the same layer load the 39-santagloves.sel, Brightness = 65 Contrast = 0 and deselect.

Now go to Layers - Merge - Merge Visible and load the 1-background.sel again. Then go to Selections - Invert and then Edit - Clear. Deselect

Add a new raster layer and load the 40-windowglass.sel, fill with white and deselect.

Add a new raster layer, load the 41-windowframe.sel and fill with the woodfill pattern and deselect.
Go to Effects - 3D Effects - Inner Bevel using the settings below.

and you are done!