PhotoShop Crazy Animals

Find another animal that is a similar color to the black horse 

Notice that I found a panther pic that is facing the side just like the horse

Copy the image and paste it into Photoshop

Make sure the Panther layer is selected blue

Click Ctrl + T to Transform the head

Resize, move and rotate the panther head so that it is covering most of the horse head

Once in position click on any tool and apply the transformation

Use the Magnetic Lasso Tool 

Zoom in on the head

Trace around the head and neck of the panther

Take your time and if it is not snapping correctly on the edge of the panther left click to manually set a point

Continue to trace around the panther head once you reach the first point of your trace click to complete the selection

• Press Ctrl + C to Copy then Ctrl + V to Paste this will make a new layer with only the panther head

• Delete the old panther layer by right clicking and selecting Delete Layer from the Layers Panel

• Rename the new layer head

Click Ctrl + T to Transform the head

Resize, move and rotate the panther head so that it is covering most of the horse head

Once in position click on the selection tool and apply the transformation

Try to make the necks match up

It is OK if the entire horse head is not covered

• Select Horse Layer 

• Use Clone Stamp Tool 

• Select Soft Round Brush 

• Change Brush Size to about half the size of the horse head

• Hold down Alt while clicking on the sky to the right of the horse head, make sure none of the horse head is selected when you do this

• Now click on the horse layer it will clone the sky on top of the head of the horse making it look like sky

• Select panther head layer

• Use Eraser Tool 

• Change the properties of the Eraser Tool found above the canvas in the properties area

• Change Opacity to 50%

• Select Soft-round Brush and change size of eraser to be about half the size of the panther head you can change to smaller for detailed areas

• Click on areas that need blended each time you click you erase 50% of the panther head thus blending the two layers together

• Go to Google Image search then click on Search tools and select color then transparent this will allow you to find pictures with a transparent background. So you don't have to erase around the image

• Find another animal picture to add I will add a horn to the panther head

• Copy the image and paste it into Photoshop

• Name this layer horn

Select Horn Layer

Use the Magic Eraser Tool 

Change Tolerance of Magic Eraser to 0 this will erase the black background. 

If you keep 30 for tolerance it will erase 30 shades from the color you click on which might erase part of the image instead of just the background

Select the Horn Layer

Click Ctrl + T to Transform the horn

Resize, Move and Rotate the horn into position (If you hold down Shift as you resize the horn will keep its aspect ratio)

In Google click on Search tools and select color then transparent this will allow you to find pictures with a transparent background. So you don't have to erase around the image

Find another animal picture to add I will add wings to the horse

Since the Wings I found are black erasing the background with the magic eraser will not work instead we will save the picture to preserve the transparency

Open the wings image in Photoshop

Select All the Wings Image by clicking Ctrl + A

Copy the image and paste it into the horse panther pic

Name this layer wings

Select the Wings Layer

Click Ctrl + T to Transform the Wings

Resize, Move and Rotate the Wings into position (If you hold down Shift as you resize the horn will keep its aspect ratio)

We want the wings to be under the horse mane to do this we use a technique called masking

Right Click on the horse layer and duplicate it name the new layer mane

Now move the wings layer between the two layers with the mane layer on top of the wings

Select the mane layer

Use Eraser Tool 

Change Opacity to 100% Change the eraser size as needed

Erase out the area where the wings are located in the mane area you can erase around the wings without having to be exact

Be sure not to erase any of the places where the mane and the wings intersect

You will need to Zoom in to erase all the areas hold Ctrl + Alt while rolling your mouse roller to Zoom

You can also use the Magic Eraser Tool  to erase a bit quicker