Fantasy Portrait

Just use the brush on a spaced apart setting (move the slider bar to the right from its condensed default) and maybe some 'Scattering' in that dialog box or Angle/Size Jitter under Shape Dynamics.

The goal here is to add just the right balance of feminine power and beauty so don't create too many condensed flowers. Oh yes, make sure you create a new blank layer to paint these onto with your foreground color of choice (here...a pure dove white..interesting how it becomes more than just 'white').

Change the blending modes if you want. Either way you can't really harm the design at this level and a screen effect will also work nicely.  You can see how the selected flowers start to mix light with the layers beneath on Overlay.

You can duplicate the layer, Ctrl click on the layer icon and then swipe the background purplee gradient across (that we've created earlier) to fill the flowers with the same color theme purple. This is also another option (taught in some other tutorials also)...and then changing the blending mode. Turn the layers off and on with the eyeballs in the layers palette.

To finish off the design you can add an inner stroke to the background layer. Click on the background layer in the layers palette (our perrty pastel gradient) and click on the lower left icon to bring up your first option of Stroke to go right to the Stroke layer style dialog box. Choose a Fill Type of Gradient and then choose a color gradient that has something in common with the design.

 

Change the angle if you want and use either linear or reflected to cover the entire width of the stroke (border). You can also change the scale to sharpen the effect or soften it out.

Use the white flowers or the gradient ones..it's up to you. I can't believe I'm teaching this! These are the inside secrets that no one will share with you...it makes me feel a little vulnerable but for a good cause; I'm not competing with other designers for 'jobs'...I'm just a freelancer and producer that just 'flows with it'. But I do have Powerful Photoshop Design training which you can partake in and squiggle with joy.  Enjoy!