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1. Open you your image of the moon. Click layer=> new layer from
background. Rename this layer Moon. Click Image=> canvas size and set the
width to 750 pixels, leaving the height alone and the current selection in
the middle.
2. Insert a layer. Hit your D key and use your paint bucket to fill it
with black. Click Layer=> new=> background from layer. This places the black
fill layer on on the bottom as a background.
3. Click on your moon layer. Select your elliptical marquee set to a
fixed size style of 480 by 480 pixels, feather = 0 and anti alias checked.
Click on the image and use your marquee tool to move the selection right
over the moon image. Click the button on the bottom of the layers panel to
add a layer mask.
4. Open your elk image. Using the move tool, drag the image to your moon
canvas. Use the polygonal lasso to select the elk in t his image, clicking
at each corner. click your layer mask button on the bottom of the layers
panel. Adjust the mask by using a 3 pixel white brush over the mask areas
you want to reveal and a black brush where you want to hide.
5. Click Edit=>transform=>scale. Set the height and width to 45 % and
apply. Move the image so the leg stumps are just above the bottom of the
moon and the head is about5 in the middle of the moon.
 6.
Click image=> adjust=> hue saturation. Set the following:
- hue=0
- saturation = -100
- lightness= -60
- uncheck colorize
 7.
Insert a layer called grass. Select the grass brush preset from ps7, set at
50 pixels. Set foreground and background colors to black, Paint in the grass
at the elks feet on this new layer so that the grass fills the lower
crescent of moon and goes to the bottom of the elk leg stubs.
8. Insert a new layer called clouds. Hit your D key to set default
colors. Set the rectangular marquee to a fixed size of 750 wide by 250 high,
30 pixel feather. Click Filter=>render=>clouds. Set this layer to screen
mode.
9. Save your image. To make an animation out of this, go to the next
tutorial here...
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