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Now that we have all of our elements here on our canvas, the next thing we need to do is start trying

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to merge these together in a really clean way.

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I could go ahead right now and just it just sort of merge these layers together as is.

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But it's a bit clunky.

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And I'm seeing parts of the biz back through the background.

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There's a very straight line here on the corners where our picture ends, cuts of some of our trees,

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and it just doesn't look very natural.

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So this lesson is all about blending these two elements together and making it look as real as we can

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because it's going to take the bulk of our work out for us down the line.

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The first thing I want to do is clean up the edges.

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So I'm going to zoom right in here and we can just clone from a tree that exists already.

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We don't have to try and recreate the side of this tree from memory.

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We don't have to try and draw it on or anything like that.

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But before we can edit this layout, we need to rest, erase it.

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So come on over to the forest layer, right.

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Click and then press restaurateur's layer and that will let us use our Clun tool on this layer.

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So I'm grabbing my clone tool from over here.

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And if you're not seeing the outline of your brush like I just was, it was looking like that that could

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be because your caps lock is on.

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So if you're like me and type with your caps, look on, turn it off and you'll be able to see the outline

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of your brush as a tip for you that I only learned recently.

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So I'm going to grab this tree right here.

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So I'm going to take my clone tool press option and click down where I want my source to come from.

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And you can say I'm dragging a piece of that tree across with me.

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I'm going to pretend that that is the top of our tree up here.

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Just gently sketch that in.

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Let the outside of that tree show up here.

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And I'm happy to take a little bit of that tree next to it right there.

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And we have made the corner of that tree back to where it started.

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I'm going to increase the hardness and decrease the size a little bit so that we can get really particular

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down here about what we want that to look like.

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I'm going to take the top of that tree, line that up over here.

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So don't forget, you press option to select your source area and then you start clicking over here

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and the tree will be drawn in.

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The reason I went over that tree was because I didn't like that.

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It was half opaque.

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I want it to be a really solid color.

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There we go.

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Now I'm going to grab my eraser tool and it is enormous right now.

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So I'm going to make it a lot smaller and I'm going to make it quite hard.

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But we're going to zoom in even more and we're just going to clean up the edges.

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Where trees don't belong.

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So I'm pretending this second tree never existed.

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I've made my brush a long shape.

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You can adjust that by touching these circles on either side.

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You can have a quite round brush or you could have quite a skinny one.

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I find this helps, especially coming in here on these kind of shapes that are trees.

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We're going to pretend that the photo ends on the edge of this tree right here.

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So I'm going to zoom out and I'm going to come across and do that on the other side as well.

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So we're missing a whole tree here.

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We could either end it right here.

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We could erase this tree right there.

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But I'd like to keep as many trees as we can.

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So let's draw ourselves a brand new tree on the end here.

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Come on over to the tree.

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We're going to clone.

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And on a Mac, I'm pressing an option key to select my source.

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If you're on a windows, you can press the alt key.

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So then I just click there.

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I've defined my new source material.

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I'm coming over and I'm pretending that tree lived over here the entire time, making sure you get all

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those leaves, but nothing really too extra over there.

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Make that look like a bit of a cliff edge, we're going to blend that in a minute.

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So not too fast about that and that's much less less harsh way to end that line over there.

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So I think the curve of these trees can blend with our bear a little bit.

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He has a very a very shapely back up here.

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And I want to make sure our trees look like they belong on his back.

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So they're not just sort of propped up there like a horizon.

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I'm going to do that by pressing Command T to transform my shape and I'm going to right.

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Click on this free transform and select the warp key.

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When we warp, we can start stretching our shape in all sorts of different, different ways.

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I'm going to press undo on that and I'm going to use the corners to drag them in so that it looks like

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this bear has curved out for us.

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So we want to be slight.

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We don't want our tree trunks bending, but we do want the shape of our image to be matching the curvature

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of our bear's back a little bit higher up here.

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And you can play around with this.

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You can be as exact as you want.

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Going to line that up right there with those trees and his ear.

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And then at the back, I want to make sure we see his tail here.

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So I'm just adjusting the corners like.

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So in fact, I think I might drag that down.

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Quite a fair way, more to straighten you up.

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There we go.

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I like that, I'm happy with that when I'm ready, I can press the move key to lock it into place so

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you can take this time now to make sure that the trees are the exact height you want them to be, because

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in a minute, we're going to lock these layers together so that we can edit them down the line.

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And I want to make sure that our bear has a realistic shape.

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You know, if it's too high, he looks really, really quite fat.

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And if he's too skinny down here, it's not going to look very real to make sure you're comfortable

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with where those trees are going.

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And once you've found where you'd like them, even if a part of the bear peeks through at the back,

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you can put those in place.

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So I like that right there.

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I'm going to take this opportunity to remove our bear a little bit.

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So I've reduced the opacity here on our forest layer just so that I can come in with my razor to make

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it a little bit bigger back to being around Tool.

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And I'm just going to remove any of this bear that kind of comes over in front of our forest here and

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we won't see this part of the bear.

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All I'm focused on is these gaps in the trees that's going to make it look more realistic with the forest.

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You're going to see the light coming through at the back.

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So this doesn't have to be very neat.

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But any part of the bear that peeks through in front of where you'd like those trees to be, you can

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just get rid of those like.

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So right now, I'm going to go back to my first layer, to the opacity, back up to 100 percent, and

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then I'm going to blend my forest layer and my bare layer together.

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We can copy this folder down here, create a new one and just merge the group as one image.

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Now, when we turn off our spare layer, we're just left with our bare all together on one layer, ready

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for us to blend in the next lesson.

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We're going to do that together.

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So I'm going to name this bear and trees and I'll see you in the next one where we can do some blending.