Photos are resized to 120 res before beginning. Here the Asian girl's face has been roughly chopped to be put over source photo of the other girl.
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Asian face is merged into other photo using the soft eraser tool and cloning tool. Some small scale changes were made here and also some rotating to get the face into proper position.
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Hair is pulled across the Asian girl's face using the smudge tool and the cloning tool, then softened w eraser tool (very soft).
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Weedy layer is placed over the girl, then reduced in opacity as well as partially erased with soft eraser tool to allow some of the pattern to remain over some of the girl. Several duplications of first layer are placed around other sides after rotating them.
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Leaves source added to be chopped next.
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Leaves are chopped for foreground, and butterfly and hand are added.
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Layers are merged, then a red/brown filter at 26% are added, then a soft omni light is added to her face. (Filter/render/omni light)