edited leaves

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Here's that disappointingly blurry shot of water drops on the back of a leaf, and color on the fronts of lots of other leaves.

Here's that same image, with Photoshop Elements' "colored pencil" filter. 

I really like some parts of the "colored pencil" version........

"Dark strokes" filter.  Love what it does to the stems.....

"Palette knife."

"Poster edges."

This time I tried something I've never done.  I used the "under painting" filter, made a copy of that, used "colored pencil" on the copy, and then tried all of the blending modes.

Here are the two I liked best -- this is "overlay"....

And this is "difference" -- my favorite of all of the images in this post.

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