This image used for the main image, manipulated many times and in many ways, (mostly with the warp and smudge tools,) sorry, but I didn't keep all the stages - got quite carried away - you know how it is....
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This also used to help make the pattern. Manipulated in the same ways - too numerous to mention- and layers flattened - sorry! Only these images were used throughout.
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This forms part of the pattern from the blue flower.
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This became the main body of the mandala. Blue flower again.
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Eventually it became this and I was finished. Image has been duplicated a few times and the colours changed using hue and saturation. See layers.