 Ye Old Dogman Portrait
1. Open the portrait of the man. Duplicate the background image.
First e need to prepare the background portrait of a headless man.
2. Use the magnetic lasso to select the background including the head
(all area above the clothes.)
 3.
Use the clone tool to fill in for the head. Sample an area of the background
with your clone tool by holding down your alt key and clicking where you
want to take the selection from. then click where you want to place the
selection.
Start with a 100 soft pixel brush and select under the back of the head
with your alt click. the click up above that area once or twice at 100 %
opacity.
Then work from above the head, selecting an area and clicking down over
the head, moving down. Follow the gradient colors so to mesh them over the
head.
 4.
When all the area above the clothes is cloned in so there is no trace of the
head, except the end of the beard, Click Filter=> Blur=> Gaussian Blur.
 5.
Click Filter=> Noise=> Add Noise. set the noise to
- amount = 6
- distribution = uniform
- Monochromatic = checked.
6. Click Select=> inverse. Use the Clone tool with a 65 soft brush to copy
area from the left shoulder (on your right) to cover the beard. Click
select=> deselect.
 7.
Open your dog picture. Use your move tool to drag a copy of the dog to your
portrait canvas. Click Edit=> transform=> flip horizontal.
8. Use your magnetic lasso to select the head and ears. Add a layer mask
to this layer.
9. Use your move tool to position the head over the neck. We will fill in
the areas missing for the neck on the next step so don't worry.
10. Click on your dog layer mask to make it active for editing. Use the
brush tool on the mask, set to a hard 19, 15, or 9 to add to the part
of the dog showing with white, and to subtract from the mask with black.
This should create a nice hard line between the head and the cloth. zoom in
if you need to get the match exact.
 11.
click back on the thumbnail of the image on the layers palette to edit the
image. Click image=>adjust=>hue saturation. Set the following:
- colorize = unchecked
- hue = 0
- saturation = -70
- lightness = 0
12. Add a layer on top. Hold your control,
 alt
and shift key down and hit the letter E. This will create a merged copy on
top of all the previous layers, preserving your previous work.
13. Open your actions panel. Open up your default actions. Click on the
sepia tone action
Say yes or ok to any sub action that comes up when it plays the
action.
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