hi can anyone advise how to make flower photos with a dark outling around the flower and petals and veins if main ones. 
or any photo where you want to outline more
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Depends on the software you have available to you.
Simplify3 plugin is a place to start or EDGE filters in your PostProcessing software
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A couple of suggestions:
You might look at sketch presets (type sketch into search) and see it any of the black and white ones give you what you are looking for … remember set the blend mode to multiply.
Also “draw” search might bring up some options
Also the “Edge” adjustment should help - you might like to add a bit of smudge to the edge adjustment as an enhancement.
Glow also can give outline effects.
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Sorry I did mean to list my topaz plug in, adjust, simplify, detail,
clean, i have played arounbd in simplify with edges and can get like a
drawing tpe of edges but don’t know how to add that to my original
photo??? what do you mean by edge filters??? i have ps cs6. thanks
forgot to say i have simplicity, adjust detail. but don’t know what to
do when i have done some of the things in topaz. but think i may have
answer in your first sentence. to set blend mode to multiply, now thats
back in ps??? and does ps put the topaz layer n the right position or do
i have to put it in a certain place. no don’t have glow, may think
about getting when i master the others as i have had to leave them for a
while with being “indisposed” thanking you.
Filter > Blur > Smart Blur will get you the edges
Then CRTL-I to invert
Use one of the blending modes to add the edge to the image
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I don;t have PS. I use Topaz Studio … which is free and you can call your topaz plug-ins from it
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Ok so this very quick experimental run took me 8 minutes in PSCC but I know it can be done in CS6.
this was a JPG with no adjustments.
In CS6 change Image > Mode to 8 bits per channel
Duplicate the background layer twice to give three layers
top layer
Filter > Blur > Smart Blur will get you the edges – you will have to change the settings to get a thickness you like
CTRL-I to change the white on black to become black on white
Change blend mode to Soft Light
middle layer
Filter > pixellate > mosiac you will have to change the settings to get a large pixellation
then
Filter > Blur > Gaussian blur you will have to change the settings to get a sufficient blurring of the large pixels
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