Use healing tool with proximity match and content aware to rid of the leaf veins
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Chop end of leaf to make the neck area
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shrink leaf down and rotate a bit
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Duplicate and flip opposite way and merge
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Shrink it down a bit more
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duplicate 2 more layers and merge them
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Rotate sideways
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Merge 2 sets together
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Pull apart with warping
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Duplicate the dress layers and flip up to make hair layers then make 2 more and merge - after that use the shadow and highlights to get a good tone to your liking
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brought down the tone more for a brown hair look
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blend in face more with healing tools and adjust shadows and highlights again
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Smooth out more of the face and use the head layer to make the legs and arms
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Use hue/saturation for coloring in the shoes
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Here I used a picture of mine of my doll with a close up shot for the eyes nose and mouth area
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Here is a bit of rock and concrete photo I took for the log she is crossing over and squished it down
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Squished down log
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Used my photo of a small fall I just took
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Added more Hue and Sat for more tone on the girl
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Hue/Sat adjust
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More shadow/highlight and color adjusts
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Add more shadowing and sharpening as well as some blur