Easy Pumpkin

You will need:

Painshop Pro

Texture Discovery HERE

Alf's Filter's CHGrad HERE

Set your foreground to black and background DF9802

New Image 400x400

Fill with black

With your selection tool set to rectangle draw a rectangle and fill with DF9802 like this:

GGo to Effects....Geometric.....Spherize.....strength 100....circle

Save as sphere.jpg

Open the Texture Discovery and find the sphere.jpg

Then click on 'Texture'....'Texture Mapping Preview'

Tiling about 11 x 1.....(you can make it less or more, it's up to you)

Now hit the 'Printscreen' (PrtScn) button on your keyboard

Back to Paintshop and 'Paste as New Image'

With your selection tool set to rectangle crop around the picture with the ball, so you will have less of what you copied....

Layers......Promote Background Layer

Now with your selection tool set to circle, go around the ball....then Selections....Invert...

and hit the Delete Button.....Selections....None....

Nice ball :-)

Nearly there.....

Go to 'Effects'.....Texture Effects.....Fur.....with these settings...

Starting to look like a pumpkin?

I painted a stem in green....

I used an inner bevel:

Then I used CHGRAD from Alf's Filters with the default settings

And Voila!

Your own pumpkin......to dress up or carve....up to your imagination :-)

Hope you enjoyed this tutorial....