Snowman

Open a new image.

Open the snowman tube and click on the snowman layer to make it the active layer.

Click on the copy icon.

Click on your new canvas. Click on the paste as new layer icon. If you haven't got the paste as new layer icon on your tool bar, go to Edit > Paste > As New Layer.

Set your background colour to Stripes 33 pattern.

Set your foreground colour to black.

Click on your text tool and use the settings in the screenshot.

Click on your new canvas and type your text in the text entry box. Click ok.

Use the nodes (little squares on the vector box) to drag your text quite big.

Right click on the vector layer and click on Convert to Raster Layer.

Add an inner bevel to your by going to Effects > 3D Effects > Inner Bevel

Go to Image > Resize and use the settings in the screenshot.

This is what you should now have.

This is how your layer should look. Click on raster 1 and flood fill it with black.

This is what you'll now have.

Go to the layer, right click on the snowman layer and duplicate. Click on the copy of the snowman layer to select it.

Go to Image > Flip

Use your mover tool to line the flipped snowman so it looks like a mirror image of the original snowman.

Go to the layer palette and duplicate the text layer.

Flip it and move into position.

Click on the copy of the text layer and reduce the opacity to 60

Do the same on the flipped snowman layer.

This is how it should look now.

Go to Layers > Merge > Merge Visible.

Go to Image > Add Borders

Use the magic wand to select the border then flood fill it with Stripes 33 pattern. Add the same inner bevel that you added to your text. Save it as a psp file.

Open your snowman image, topsnow.pspimage and snowreflected.pspimage in Animation Shop.

Click on your snowman image to make it the active image then click on the duplicate frames icon 3 times so you get 5 frames.

Click on topsnow.pspimage (when it opened in Animation Shop, it might have changed it's name to animation 1 or something like that so you need to make sure you know which is the top and which is the bottom) and go to Edit > Select All then Edit > Copy. Click on the snowman image and got Edit > Select All then Edit > Paste Into Selected. Click once to position your snow. Do the same with the snowreflected.pspimage.

Go to Animation > Frame Properties and set the display time to 25

Go to Animation > Resize Animation

Save and you're done :o)

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