The Ground

	Step 19 - Select another layer and add a plane (Add > Mesh > Plane). Now select the 3 layers you used, and (with the plane still selected) grow the plane to be bigger than the forest. This is going to be the ground. Switch to the object mode (Tab) and make sure in the front or side view (1 or 3) that the ground is not floating above the trees, but directly under them.
	Step 20 - Now go to the shading menu (F5), and instead of choosing "Add New", click on the small arrows on the left of the Add New button and choose "Snow".

The Camera & Lights

	Step 21 - Let's start with the camera. Select it, and try to point it at the snowman (with G and R), so that you can see the snowman and also the forest. You can go in the camera view (0) to help you (you can move the camera while you're in this view). Here I show you the place I chose to put the camera.
Step 22 - This part is a little more difficult, because the quality of the image could change a lot depending upon the lights, and there's no "magical tip" that will make them always look right. In general you'll have to try many times before creating something good. Select the light/lamp (the small yellow circle with a yellow dot inside that you can see on images 18 and 19), then go to the shading menu (F5) and click on "Lamp Buttons" (the square button with a light bulb). Select "Sun" (one of the green buttons on the left). Then try to place it (G and R) somewhere where it will light the scene properly (as in image 19 for example... Don't forget to try rendering (F12) to see what it looks like). You'll notice that the "sun" doesn't cast shadows. Only "spots" can do that: Add another lamp (Add > Lamp) and, in the same menu as before, click on "Spot", and then on "OnlyShadow", so the spot will not light the scene but add shadows to it.
	Step 23 - Try to place the spot approximately at this place with the grab (G) and rotate (R) tools. (I colored the snowman in red to show you where it is).
	Step 24 - Select the camera, and on the shading menu (F5) try to make the "world" color sky-blue.
Step 25 - On the Scene menu (F10), select "OSA" (this will enable anti-aliasing). The 5,8,11,16 buttons below set the quality of the anti-aliasing (the higher, the best). Also select the "100%" button to render the image at 100%, and then change the values of the SizeX and SizeY (this is the size of the final image). Then you'll only have to click on the big "render" button (or F12) to start the rendering. To save your image, press F3 after the render.
	Step 26 - Here is what it should look like :) You'll find the Blender source of this scene below. I added some fancy stuff on the last layer (the one on the bottom right) so you can try some renderings with the 3 layers + this one.

- Tutorial written by DuskBlue

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