My Garden

My Garden

First thing I did was to make two copies of my photo and then put one under and one over the frame. Then I used the Quick Selection Tool to select the flowers on the top photo layer. Took some work using the plus and minus to get what I wanted and I worked my way around the photo - deleting sections as I went. Then I cut the bottom photo to fit under the frame. I usually link those three layers once I finish the extraction just to be safe. The background papers I blended the plain one on top of the diamond one because the diamonds by themselves were just too busy looking to me and competed with the flowers. Other than that I just sized and arranged the elements.