To complete this tutorial you will need the following:

• image of sunflowers
• image of a butterfly

1. Open a new canvas that is 1028 wide by 600 high, 72 ppi, white, RGB. Set the the foreground color to hex #FFCC66. use the paint bucket to fill the background layer. Open your sunflower image and using your move tool, drag your image of your sunflowers over onto your canvas.

3. Place a guide at vertical 189 and another guide at horizontal 78 pixels. Select your oval marquee tool set to a fixed size of  750 wide by 400 high. Click at the intersection of the two guides. Click the "add layer mask" button on the bottom of the layers palette for the sunflower layer.

4. Add a layer and call it stroke. Right click on the layer mask of the sunflowers layer and set selection to layer mask. Click back on the Stroke layer.  Click Edit=> Stroke. Set the stroke to 15 pixel, color Hex #993300, outside, normal. Click edit=>Stroke. Set to 10 pixel hex #FFFFCC outside. Then Click Edit=> stoke set to 6 pixel outside hex #993300.

5. Click Select=> inverse. Click Filter=> Blur=> Gaussian Blur. Set the blur to 1.8. Click Select=> Deselect.

6. Click your sunflower layer and highlight the image edit mode so the brush is in the grey box on the left of the layer, not the mask icon.

7. Hit your d key to set default colors. Set the the foreground color to hex #993300.  

Click Filter=> pixilate => pointillize.
Set pointillize to a setting of 5.

8. Click Edit=> artistic=> Palette knife. Set the palette knife to

• stroke size =8
• stroke detail = 3
• softness = 4

9. Click Image=>Adjust=> hue/saturation.

• Colorize off,
• hue=--10,
• saturation = +0,
• lightness= 40.

10. Click back on the sunflower layer and highlight the mask to edit it. Paint in the rest of the partial flowers on the mask in  white, and remove and clean up unwanted areas around the flowers by painting black on the mask