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In this quick workflow demonstration, I'm going to show you how I would create a composite combining this image with this uh cow and this spaceship. Now the cow and the spaceship come from a collection called the Humara photo clipart collection. I purchased this from my favorite computer store. You get thousands of images for like thirty dollars, something like that, very cool. And you can use it for whatever you'd like, whatever nefarious purpose you'd like, and this image comes from the cd, the special content cd, that comes with your Photoshop CS3 install. So I'm going to hide this Humara, for now, I don't need that guy and what I'm going to do is I'm going to do some drag and drop into this image once I finish up preparing these images here. So the first thing I want to do of course is get rid of the green and the maroon color and drag these images right into this guy. So I'm going to go to my select menu and I'm going to choose color range. With this command you get this dialog box and I'm going to click with the eye dropper tool and right in the green and as you can see right away it gives me an outline and this is the area that's going to be selected for me. So I'm going to click OK and now it does a great job getting rid of all the green. But what I want to do is I want to go to now select and I'm going to choose inverse and now I'm going to drag Bessie right into this image with the move tool, so I'm going to click and drag and there she goes, now put her down on the ground. There is no grass there so she is eating the tarmac, not good for you Bessie. Now I'm going to go ahead and just hide that for now, and I am going to do the same thing with the spaceship. I'm going to go to the select menu, I'm going to choose color range and I'm going to choose all that maroon there, click OK and by the way guys I'm going very fast because you know I just want to show you a demonstration as to how I would work. I would be more careful with my selections in reality, so I'm going to drag and drop this right on into this image as well. And once again I don't need the spaceship and now I can press F on my keyboard to go to a nice full screen view. And I want to get my layers out and I'm going to double click where it says layer two and name this UFO. And we're going to name Bessie, Bessie. The traditional name for cows everywhere approved by four out of five dentists. Now on the UFO layer I'm going to press command or control T, so I can scale the ship down and move it into position. And let's go ahead and double click to accept that. And what I'm going to do is create another new layer and this is going to be my beam, because the ship is going to beam Bessie aboard the ship, now whether they are going to talk or eat the cow we don't know. These are UFOs man. So now, with my beam layer I'm going to go ahead and expand my tools and grab my polygonal lasso and I'm going to draw a beam from the ship to Bessie. And of course Bessie knows not what is happening. Poor Bessie, we'll miss you man! Now I have my, my tract of beam, alright, not very impressive. Now I'm going to change the color swatch color to something like a greenish, light greenish color like this. And then I am going to go to edit and I'm going to choose fill and then I'm going to choose the fill with the foreground color and then I'm to deselect this by pressing command or control D. And now I'm going to go to my filter menu and choose blur, gaussian blur and as you see I, I have a nice blur already with the 17.3 pixel radius but I can increase that or decrease it as I wish. I'll go ahead and accept that and last but not least I'll drop the opacity down so I get this nice beam and now we have this cool image created from three separate images and we have Bessie about to be beamed up onto this ship for dinner as a guest or as the main course. So, as you can see Photoshop works well with other applications where you can just drag and drop images right on in. You can also get rid of any colors that are around your other images. You can use tools such as the select menu to choose color range, to select all your images. You can inverse the selection so you can get exactly what you want and you can put them into your composite. Now one last thing I'm going to do is give Bessie a shadow. Now let me show you how cool this is going to be. This is very easy. I'm not going to do a very, very realistic shadow of course. I'm going to choose Bessie, I'll make one more layer and I'll put it underneath Bessie. I'll drag this layer down and I'll name it shadow. And of course I double clicked a little too hard there. So I'll call this shadow and I'm going to draw a shadow manually based on the color of this tarmac here and I'll drop that down. And I'm simply going to grab my polygonal axle and I'm just going to draw an outline of a shadow that I think will look good for Bessie. Not the greatest shadow ever, but it'll work because we are going to blur it like we did last time. So we are just going to draw the shadow out, going to fill it in, the foreground color, I'm going to deselect it and once again I'm going to apply a gaussian blur to that shadow. And now Bessie looks a little more cemented into this environment because we have a nice shadow under the cow itself. So as you can see Photoshop is quite handy, it can do quite a lot of things. And all you have to do is really use your imagination because there is no right or wrong technique. Now many people will have different ways of doing the same exact thing, so having said that I want you to just enjoy Photoshop, learn as much as you can and the number one secret to learning and mastering Photoshop is to experiment. Bring in anything, bring in any picture you have, a coffee mug, your Aunt Matilda, bring it into Photoshop add all kinds of filters, glow, special effects and that's really the best way to master this application.