This guide was made for entry: Flowers In Contest: crosses
Original image
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Took a single petal from the sourceimage.
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Duplicated it and free transformed.
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Make a flower base through layer duplication.
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Duplicate the entire flower and free transform to make a small center flower.
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Hue & Saturation from adjustment layers to produce different coloured flowers.
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Cutout a grass. This will be the stem of flowers and palm leaves
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Use Filter> 3D Transform to create the flower vase.
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Make selection on the 3D transform and fill it with cross brightness. Then free transforn and warp it to produce the vase.
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For table top make a plus with the selection tool, use pen tool to shape it, inverse path by pressing ctrl+shft+I, delete, then rotate it to form the shape. Then border it with a square. To make nice perspective tiles duplicate layer respectively 4 times to make 16 tiles. Free transform and make it very big, then prespective to create the final tiling.
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Make leaf out of the grass blade. As expalined earlier the blade was give blending options Inner glow and Satin. So was the final leaf. Then merge all and warp it to produce the shape. Mask is necessary to give a smooth shape.
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The table surface.
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Make the maple leaves from brush tool using Photoshop default brush. Give it a color hue saturation and bit size jitter through brush preset.
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Make leaves using brush.
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Flower cluster created using Hue & Saturation adjustment and duplication.
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Leaves duplicated after layer Blending.
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Used Pen tool to create brown border for flower vase.
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Made vase surface designs using flower petal and grass blade cutout. Duplicated it 4 times to create vase contour. Also, duplicated the brown line to create vase lines and warped, burned and masked it to define contour to vase.
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Add highlights to the vase by quick selection, fill white, warp and opacity & fill adjustment andgradient mask.
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Flowers, leaves and vase together without mask.
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Masked flower stems & composed with butterfly, petals and leaf added for table top.
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Gave flower vase shadow, didn't add butterfly shadow as monarch butterfly is 3-4 inch & my flower is bigger. For perspective I showed the butterfly away from flower, so much that, 3.5 inches butterfly will make vase 12 inches height, 4.5 inches vase mouth and 4.5 inches big flowers and 2 inches small flowers which happen to be the norm for our eyes. Butterfly shadow is away from screen. All parameters are approximations.
Any guidance on an alternative approach to butterfly situation, as artgirl1935 had suggested one, is most welcome. Thank you artgirl1935.. God bless you..