**This tuorial was written using PSP7 but should also work in earlier versions!**

What you will need:
PSP7 or earlier
A sense of adventure!
Pumpkin Selections ZipFile
and this color chart:

open a new image 400 x 400, transparent background, 16.7 million colors
Add a new layer named "pumpkin" and open your pumpkinmain.sel file
Click on the first orange color and floodfill the selection.
DO NOT DESELECT!

And a new layer named Pumpkin2

Click on the second orange color and set your Paint Brush Tool to the following:

And draw a few lines from the top of the pumpkin to the bottom following the natural shape.
It shouls look something likes this :)

Now go to 
Effects>Blur>Gaussian Blur>4

Now draw your lines over the original ones again and then
Effects>Blur>Gaussian Blur>4 once more

Add anew layer Named Pumpkin 3
Using the third orange color, draw a few more lines on your pumpkin, try to run these lines beside
the first ones you drew...we do not want to cover them up completly.

Now go to 
Effects>Blur>Gaussian Blur>4

Next go to
Layers>Merge>Merge Visible
Rename this layer pumpkin...do not deslect yet!

Next, Click on your retouch tool 
And use the following settings:

Now what you want to try and do is pull some of the differnt colors into each other,
there is no real rule to this...just experiment until you find what works best for you but I always
try and follow the natural curve of the shape and pull down and off to the side.

Now go to 
Effects>Blur>Gaussian Blur>2
And then continue to smudge your lines in a nice fluid motion till you have something like this:

Deselct

Add a new layer named "Stem" and open your pumpkinstem.sel file
Click on the first brown color and floodfill the selection.

Add a new layer named "Stem2"
Set the second brown as your foreground color and
click on your paintbrush tool and using the settings from before,
paint a few lines on your stem

Now go to 
Effects>Blur>Gaussian Blur>4

Then Make your Pumpkin Layer invisible and merge all visible layers
Rename this layer stem

Then go to Layers>Arrange>Send to Bottom