Flower
Entry guide: step 1 of 8

Made wood grain using simple bush with shear, Noise and Scale down and duplicate.
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Warp into petal
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Hue and Saturation to turn green
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Duplicate and rotate several times
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Duplicate scales whole layer from step 3 (Note dodge was added in a later step but show here,
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Used part of wood grain for center. Duplicated layer used multiply blending with dodge and burn on final image.
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Final layer added doge and burn to get some shape on petals
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Final image with a plain gradient background. Sorry some steps are out of order. I'm new at creating a step by step
final result

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