These selections were lassoed from source photo to create flowers.
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Selections from source are joined together with liquify warp and skeleton warp, then filters of difference cloud and craquelure added.
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The same light green selection is brought in again, this time to be liquify warped to make leaf forms.
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The dark green selection is now liquify warped to form another leaf form for top layer. It will later be duplicated and placed on the left side and opacity lowered somewhat.
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Petal for red flower is formed with selection of top of pants in source photo. Shaping is done with liquify, then with smudge and eraser tools.
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Petals are duplicated then rotated and placed carefully to form a flower head, then petals all merged to be placed at top of a stem already formed.
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Here flower head has been duplicated two times to place on stems which have also been dupllicated from light green plant.
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Using source head, butterfly body is started. Liquify, smudge, and eraser tools are used to shape it.
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From another head selection from source, wings are formed with same tools, then wings are merged with body.
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From green area of source photo, a leaf is shaped with eraser tool. Shape is duplicated three times, one is flipped and duplicated 2 more times. These are merged together after rotating to proper positions, and placed where flower joins the stem. Butterfiles are added. They will be moved around to determine where they will balance out the piece.
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Here are the steps to forming the white flower to be placed at the bottom right of the piece.
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Finally, after white flower is placed, filters in red, yellow and green are placed over the entire merged piece.