PSP Smooth Skin

the soften tool gives an odd effect and i've tried a lot of other things to achieve the effect like below:
by dekolette
the main graphic layout at autofade, and this graphic:
http://fade-it.org/immortality/collages/unspoken.html
i was wondering how the smooth skin effect created by a filter in photoshop could be achieve in jasc paint shop pro 8.