Photoshop - Animal Skin Swap 2

Original Dragon	Original Honeycomb Texture
Layers	Honey Dragon
Steps Open Dragon image, use quick select tool to select dragon and mask out background and copy it onto a new layer using the Ctrl - j shortcut while selected.  While the new layer is active, press Ctrl-Shift-U to strip away its colour and use Ctrl - J to duplicate the layer. This will serve as the base for the displacement layer used later.  Hide the most recently duped layer and Ctrl-click the new layer button while active on the displacement layer.  Use the paint bucket tool to fill in the blank new layer with white. Select the displacement layer and filter it through the Filter menu with Noise > Median with a level of 5 and Blur > Gaussian with a level of 2. Merge the white blank layer with the displacement layer and duplicate it onto a new psd by pressing right-click on the layer and selecting "new" under the document option. Save it as psd file for use later and delete the current displacement layers from your layers. Open the honeycomb texture file and drag it over to dragon document, by using the move tool and pressing shift over the tab.  Stretch the texture to fit it over the dragon With the Texture layer active, add a distortion filter through the Filter Menu using Distort > Displace and select the displacement file saved earlier. Use the numbers 40-40 for the x and y scale. Highlight the dragon layer by Ctrl-clicking the layer's image and then make thetexture layer active and click the layer mask icon to remove any excess texture. Click on the texture's image on the layers tab change its blend to overlay. Add levels layer adjustment to the texture layer and change it to make it look great Duplicate all layers and merge, hiding originals. Change background and add watermark.