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Theme: Poinsettia Blur #2
The original image I started with was a single poinsettia leaf that I shot the backside of. I liked the interest of the backside so decided to build my own poinsettia. I used lots of layers and warping. Then merged in a few buds from another image. Applied multiple blurs,layers and a texture overlay which I created from a new layer w/ some fill color and added lots of snowflake brush presets.(very faintly)I added a ton of sharpening layers to give it some added texture to the tips of the leaves.Then finally I added a warming photo filter since it looked a bit cool to me. I left a bit of the natural shine of the leaf in areas so that it appeared more realistic. And since we are on the cusp of two themes I added some snow.:)