That is just beautiful! How do you reduce the size of the pattern like that?
I just cropped it to what seemed to be the most dense section. There were many "holes" in the lily pads & I started with the best pix of about 15 I had taken. My cropping probably reduced it to 10% of original
Then I went to reduce size & made the one side 50 across. this is what resulted. I actually wanted it larger in pattern. I am still learning. Also when I did one with rocks in pond, I lightened the swatch before copy/pasting so it will be light enough for lettering to show up on it well for background. That one actually looks like lace rather than rocks.
I am using Picture It at this point for picture editing. I would like to get the pix editing Billie recommended eventaully. For some reason I cannot install Photoshop 6 on my new computer.