I was going for a painterly effect on this rose–a detail from a bouquet.  Here is the original bouquet:

The rose shown in the altered version is the one at the far right of this photo of the bouquet. Using iPhoto, I cropped, rotated the photo to get a horizontal positioning of the rose, augmented the color, sharpened, darkened, then used filters and some other adjustments.  “A little of each.”

https://ceenphotography.com/2016/08/02/flower-of-the-day-august-3-2016-dahlia/