Taste It..
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this is the cut part...
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warping the seeds then embossing them..
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Cloning the layer then pillow embossing certain part of it corresponding to the light!!
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Working on the other side in the same manner and adding some red shadows of the pillow emboss on both sides...
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Lowering down the density of the seeds of the other side...
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for the seeds to be more spheric and realistic: filter->distort->spherize
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Extracted the leaf from other contest source_Sorry, but it was the nearest one for me to save more time
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formed different shapes from the same leaf (with some special effects from me also)...
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Shadowing and highlighting for each leaf...
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final form of the leaves...
final result

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