Create a Surreal Snail with a Grassy Shell in Photoshop

Make the child shadow as done with the snail:

Step 16

I used an adjustment layer to reduce the child saturation:

Step 17

I used Color Balance for the child layer and on its layer mask use a soft black brush to reduce the little green effect on the skin:

Step 18

I used Curves to darken the child and on its layer mask use a soft black brush to erase the face and dress parts:

Step 19

I made a new layer with the same settings like the step 9 and 12. Use the Burn Tool to darken the dress bottom more:

Step 20

Cut out the flowers from the images indicated in the resources list and arrange them around the grassy shell, duplicate, use Cmd/Ctrl+T to transform them if needed:

Place these layers under the child one.

Step 21

Take a flower from the flowers 1 image and place it behind the model, make its size much bigger than the other flowers:

To correct the pose of this flower, use the Puppet Warp and drag the petals down to make the two sides of the flower more proportional and the stem more straight:

Step 22

I made a new layer with Clipping Mask) for this big flower and used the Burn Tool to give more details to the petals:

Step 23

Select all the flower layers and press Cmd/Ctrl+G to make a group for them. Change this group mode from Pass Through to Normal 100%. Make a new layer at the bottom of this group and use a soft black brush, the opacity about 40% to paint the shadow for some of the flowers:

Step 24

Create the shadow for all other flowers as done with the child and snail:

Step 25

Make a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer on the top of the flower layers (within this group) to change their color:

Step 26

I used Curves to darken the flowers:

On this layer mask use a soft black brush to clear the effect on the flowers parts which are darker than the rest already:

Step 27

I used another Curves adjustment layer to brighten some of the flowers. On this layer mask erase the parts which are hidden from the light and the big flower:

Step 28

Open the grass pack. Take some different blades and clumpings to add to the foreground:

Apply a Gaussian Blur of 4 px to all the grass layers:

Step 29

Make a group for the grass ones as done with the flowers. Create a Curves adjustment layer to brighten the grasses and on its layer mask use a soft black brush to erase the grasses bottom (at the edges):

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