Pop Dots and Clipping Mask with Text

"Gaussian Blur and Median" was a pretty tough tutorial for me to grasp, so I instead opted to do the Pop Dots tutorial, and then the Clipping Mask one. For this tutorial, I used a picture of an orchid that I photographed in Costa Rica. I'm quite proud of how this picture turned out, so I kept it as a reserve for a really cool tutorial. As you can see, I didn't do the image precisely the way that the tutorial indicated; I played around quite a bit with gradients, and I used the clipping mask on everything but the cutout, giving this kind of cool, gradiented look to the text as well.