started with copying and pasting petals in desired shape,painted the legs of the bird,yellow part is the pollan part
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added the background layer.painted this with shades of green and later on render filter effects.have used the lighting effect on the background green layer
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worked with the brush with different flow capacity to give yellow shade to its feathers
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finally used burning tool at places where i wanted highlights,chaged the colour level to little darker and increased image contrast
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these designs are made using default photoshop custom shapes.i have used the swirl design and sqaure.copy pasted to arrange in a shape.i have added them in the background after completion.made hue changes and blended tht layer.this is first design,same i have done for second.iniatially i have painted the bacground with green colour and added sponge filter effect
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design two.
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i have edited this entry four times.so after warning from moderators i m adding the bird guide which in step one appears