Playing with Layers

I have been trying to follow directions for layers and textures,and these are what I have come up with. 



The first image is from the photo of an iris in my garden I lost track of what I was doing, so in future will have to record each step as I go and if I changed things.  I did use a plum texture which I was able to download from here 

There you can get free downloads of textures from this very generous person.


This next image is achieved with layers from the same site on Flicker

I added the original photo I used to the image.

I did play with a couple of others but did not save them properly so will have to go back and do them again.