This image was photographed on a very cold foggy morning with natural light. the color of the branch of eucalyptus had faded as it was now winter and was practically dead. I used PhotoShop to enhance what color was left by increasing the saturation of the individual colors till it was to my liking. In order to increase the effect of the texture of the plant and the near frozen droplets of water I would make small changes using the unsharp mask feature and repeated that process untill it was to the desired effect. The background mat was created by using the original image on its own layer and applying the gausine blur filter to greatly soften the image then adding a texture filter that resembled a bumpy leather. This created a nice background image with the same color scheme. I added a small drop shadow to create some depth to the image and finished the image with a thin line of a complimentary color around the image.
