Photoshop - Animal Skinswap 3

Statute of  of Liberty	Wood Texture	Gold Texture
Layers	Textured Statue of Liberty
Steps Open Statute of Liberty image, use quick select tool to select the crown and mask out background and copy it onto a new layer using the Ctrl - j shortcut while selected. Do the same for the body 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. Do this for both body and crown  Hide the most recently duped layer and Ctrl-click the new layer button while active on the displacement layer. Repeat for both parts. Use the paint bucket tool to fill in the blank new layer with white. Repeat for both parts. 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. Repeat for both parts. 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. Repeat for both parts. Save it as psd file for use later and delete the current displacement layers from your layers. Repeat for both parts. Open the wood texture file and drag it over to body document, by using the move tool and pressing shift over the tab.  Repeat for crown document with gold texture. Stretch the texture to fit it over the body and crown. 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. Repeat for both parts. Highlight the dragon layer by Ctrl-clicking the layer's image and then make the texture layer active and click the layer mask icon to remove any excess texture. Repeat for both parts. Click on the texture's image on the layers tab change its blend to overlay. Repeat for both parts. Add levels layer adjustment to the texture layer and change it to make it look great. Repeat for both parts. Duplicate all layers and merge, hiding originals. Change background and add watermark.