This guide was made for entry: Road In Contest: tulips
Original image
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Outsource image.
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I copied and pasted two different tulips, and duplicated several times, resizing and changing the color of some of them.
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I copied, pasted and masked children image; duplicated the layer and changed the lightness into black, applied some gaussian blur and lowered the opacity, creating then the shadow. Applied distortion and erased unwanted parts.
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Under all layers I opened a new one, and applied a gradient sky blue to white.
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Over sky layer, I created a new one, using clouds filter. After I created a layer for rainbow, using preset gradient, warp tool and low opacity.