While eating breakfast outside this morning, this cluster of catmint flowers caught my attention. I experimented many ways with this image and I'm not exactly sure what I really used. I think I started with topaz simplify, underpainting and reduced the effect on the main flowers. I added a texture from photomorphis to soften the impact of the bkgd and masked the main flower spikes for a lesser effect from the texture. Used one of the new effects in topaz clean at different opacities for bkgd and main flowers. Created the frame using content aware and an effect from PS filter gallery.











