Online Courses at Artful Gathering

Thought it was about time that I looked at doing some online courses.  I was looking at some of the courses at Artful Gathering and liked the look of Diana Mulder's class so I had a look on her website.  I found an interesting blog post she did a while back where she used the online software picnik which unfortunately is no longer available.  I love what she did with her botanicals but she said that she felt that she should go further and did anyone have any ideas.  Well, that's like putting a red flag to a bull so I copied the leaves (see post) that she posted and did a bit of messing around with it in Photoshop Elements.  So Diana, here are the results.

The manipulations became so complex in the end that I'm sorry I can't show you how I did it. For example, in the manipulation below I have shown all the different layers.  They all have different blend modes.