Continue making selections and painting. Below is what mine looked like after the stems and leaves were done.

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COLORS USED

These may seem a little light at first but you can adjust the opacity of the color if you like or do a gamma correction to highten all the colors when you are finished without bluring out the subtle lines..

Below is a close up of how I blended the stem and leaf together with the smuge tool.

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Smudge tool settings.

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STEP SEVEN

When you have painted the entire image select the the painted area as below and copy merged. Paste as new image.

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Now you can play with it. Smudge, highlight, add filters or whatever. Be sure to save first and work on a duplicate image.

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