Using Anna Aspnes Artplay palette Anything.
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I have dedicated this LO to my Mom,
who at this time is in the other side of the world from us,
entering winter instead being able to be with us enjoying the beautiful spring and summer,
I know she would love to be with us this summer.

I have used three different images for this LO,
two of them are behind the focal image,
those two were enhanced with brush work done with strokes in different colors,
intensities and sizes but always using the same brush with a large surface and irregular edges.
The images used on the background were images of gardens and flowers.
One of the images is used to create the frame effect and it was reduced to the appropriate size with a shadow added to it and I applied a pin light blending mode to it.
I also used transfer from the artplay palette to add interest with a pin light blending mode as well.
I have used an eraser brush to eliminate some of the
areas of the frame to be able to blend it easily with the other background image that is behind.
The focal image on the right was treated with watercolor techniques and I applied also a cutout filter after.
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These two background images were placed among the layer of the focal image that women with the hat) in the layer stack what is a wonderful blending trick.