What's your play 78

Every tuesday my photographer cousin Laura Hana runs a "what's your play?" fun game. A basic photo is posted up and everyone throws their processing interpretation on it. Check out her blog to participate yourself: http://www.dolcepics.com/

The original photo is:


Here's my take on it:


-Various curve masks to reduce contrast between highlights and shadows
-Changed toning by dumping colours into a layers on top and selecting various blending modes (screen, Hue, multiply) and masking them to my liking
-Moved leaves over to a composition I liked with clone tool
-Bent branches (via liquify) to extend and connect to new leaf position
-Blur tool to even out the softness around the bends and cloning
-Brush tool at 50% to paint in colours that got skewed in the edit
-overlay a wall texture
-selective dodge and burn
-curve mask to bring out leaves more
-saturation mask to adjust colour levels as needed