Cat and birdbath.

What is the cat waiting for? Can you guess?

Get my selections for PSP7 here. Zip them up in your PSP Selections folder.
I have also included two birds for you. Zip them up in your Image folder.
You can either make this tutorial with filter Paint Engine or just only with PSP.

Start with a New Image 250 x 300, transp, 16 mill.
New Layer. Call it Body. Selections, Load from disk, catbath, body.sel.

Make the settings for Match Mode, in your Tool Option palette, to None.
That way you will fill the entire selection with just one click.

Flood Fill with color #C7A077. Effects, Texture effects, Fur. Settings as below.

Selections, Float. Effects, 3D, Cutout as below.

Deselect.
We will later smudge the bodyparts, but we will first put them in place.

New Layer. Call it Head. Selections, Load from disk, catbath, head.sel.
Flood Fill with color #C7A077. Effects, Texture effects, Fur. Settings as before.
Selections, Float. Effects, 3D, Cutout, as before. Deselect.

New Layer. Call it Headpart. Selections, Load from disk, catbath, headpart.sel.
Flood Fill with color #F5D7BF. Effects, Texture effects, Fur. Settings as below.

Selections, Float. Effects, 3D, Cutout, as before, but change
Shadow color to #B27F4E. Deselect.

New Layer. Call it Cheeks. Selections, Load from disk, catbath, cheeks.sel.
Flood Fill with color #D68176. Deselect.

New Layer. Call it Innerear. Selections, Load from disk, catbath, innerear.sel.
Flood Fill with color #BD8C8B. Selections, Float. Effects, 3D, Cutout, as below.

Deselect.

New Layer. Call it Eyes. Selections, Load from disk, catbath, eyes.sel.
Flood Fill with color #CFCD0F. Deselect.

New Layer. Call it Face. Selections, Load from disk, catbath, face.sel.
Flood Fill with black color. Deselect.

New Layer. Call it Glint. Selections, Load from disk, catbath, glint.sel.
Flood Fill with white color. Deselect.

New Layer. Call it Feet. Selections, Load from disk, catbath, feet.sel.
Flood Fill with color #986B4A. Effects, Noice, Add, Uniform 10. Deselect.

New Layer. Call it Soleofthefeet. Selections, Load from disk, catbath, soleofthefeet.sel.
Flood Fill with color #BD8C8B. Selections, Float. Effects, 3D, Cutout the same as before,
but change Shadow color to #987A7A. Deselect.

This is what you will have now.

Now to the smudging part.

Click on layer Body in your Layer Palette.

Retouch tool. Smudge as below.

Zoom the picture to see better what youre doing.
Smudge a little inside the body with size 6. Try to make the fur blend nicely.
Change to size 2 and make tiny strokes outwards all around the body.

It may look like this now.

If you would like to use Filter Paint Engine, make the settings like this.

Now it looks like this.

Stand on layer Head in your Layer Palette. Do the same smudging on the head.
No smudge on the ears. If you use Paint Engine, apply it now.

Stand on layer Headpart in your Layer Palette. Do the same smudging.
Make layer Face visible, but keep standing on layer Headpart. Airbrush 1, color #87694B.
Make some lines around the eyes.
Change to color #DEC1A8 and make some lines on the muzzle and nose like this.

Smudge them a little like this.

Make all layers visible again. Stand on layer Innerear. Smudge the inner lower part a bit.

Stand on layer Feet. Smudge the edges a bit with tiny strokes outwards.

Stand on layer Feet. Effects, 3D, Drop Shadow as below.

This is what we will have now.

 Without filter to the left, with filter to the right.

If you like to change the colors do so now. You can use Colorize and Colors, Darken or Lighten.
Check out what you like the best. When you are satisfied, Layers, Merge, Merge Visible.
Call the layer Cat.

Now to the birdbath.

New Layer. Call it One. Selections, Load from disk, catbath, one.sel.
Flood Fill with color #F5D7BF. Effects, Noise, Add, Uniform 10.
Selections, Float. Effects, Cutout as below.

Deselect.

New Layer. Call it Two. Selections, Load from disk, catbath, two.sel.
Flood Fill with the same color. Effects, Noise, as before. Selections, Float. Effects,
Cutout as before, but change Opacity to 51. Deselect.

New Layer. Call it Three. Selections, Load from disk, catbath, three.sel.
Flood Fill with the same color. Effects, Noise, as before. Selections, Float. Effects,
Cutout as before, but change Opacity to 80. Deselect.

New Layer. Call it Four. Selections, Load from disk, catbath, four.sel.
Flood Fill with the same color. Effects, Noise, as before. Selections, Float. Effects,
Cutout as before. Deselect.

New Layer. Call it Five. Selections, Load from disk, catbath, five.sel.
Flood Fill with the same color. Effects, Noise, as before. Selections, Float. Effects,
Cutout as before, but change Opacity to 61. Deselect.

New Layer. Call it Six. Selections, Load from disk, catbath, six.sel.
Flood Fill with the same color. Effects, Noise, as before. Selections, Float. Effects,
Cutout as before, but change Blur to 25. Deselect.

New Layer. Call it Seven. Selections, Load from disk, catbath, seven.sel.
Flood Fill with the same color. Effects, Noise, as before. Selections, Float. Effects,
Cutout as before, but change Blur to 18,8. Deselect.

New Layer. Call it Eight. Selections, Load from disk, catbath, eight.sel.
Flood Fill with the same color. Effects, Noise, as before. Selections, Float. Effects,
Cutout, Opacity set to 51, change Blur to 10. Deselect.

New Layer. Call it Nine. Selections, Load from disk, catbath, nine.sel.
Flood Fill with the same color. Effects, Noise, as before. Selections, Float. Effects,
Cutout, Opacity set to 51, Blur to 10. Deselect.

New Layer. Call it Ten. Selections, Load from disk, catbath, ten.sel.
Flood Fill with the same color. Effects, Noise, as before. Selections, Float. Effects,
Cutout, Opacity set to 51, Blur to 10. Deselect.

New Layer. Call it Eleven. Selections, Load from disk, catbath, eleven.sel.
Flood Fill with the same color. Effects, Noise, as before. Selections, Float. Effects,
Cutout, Opacity set to 61, change Blur to 18,8. Deselect.

New Layer. Call it Twelve. Selections, Load from disk, catbath, twelve.sel.
Flood Fill with the same color. Effects, Noise, as before. Selections, Float. Effects,
Cutout, Opacity set to 61, Blur to 18,8. Deselect.

New Layer. Call it Rings. Selections, Load from disk, catbath, rings.sel.
Flood Fill with color #ADA9A9. Effects, Inner Bevel as below.

Deselect.

New Layer. Call it Water. Selections, Load from disk, catbath, water.sel.
Flood Fill with color #ADCBCF. Deselect.

Close layer Cat. Layers Merge, Merge Visible, Call it Bath.

New Layer. Call it Paws. Selections, Load from disk, catbath, paws.sel.
Flood Fill with color #986B4A. Effects, Noice, Add, Uniform 10.
Effects, Texture effects, Fur as below.

Deselect. Retouch tool, Smudge, settings as before. Smudge a little on the paws.

New Layer. Call it Tail. Selections, Load from disk, catbath, tail.sel.
Flood Fill with color #986B4A. Effects, Noise, Add, Uniform 10.
Effects, Texture effects, Fur as before. Deselect.
Retouch tool, Smudge, settings as before. Smudge the tail.

Go through your picture. If you want to change anything, do so now.

Layers, Merge, Merge Visible and you are done.

Add the birds, you got in the zip, to your image and you will have a very lively picture.

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