photoshop

Here I used a elliptical marquee tool to create a circle.

with the circle still selected I filled it with orange.

Here I applied a layer mask, and darked the bottom part and lighted the top, giving the image some shape.

Here I put in a shadow by duplicating the circle and placing it below the circle layer, then filling black and applying a gaussian blur. Then using the skew tool, to change the angle making it look more real.

Here I used the elliptical tool again, but once selected I then held shift which allowed me to take chunks out of my selection.

Here you can see my layers pallet showing you the order of which my layers are positioned.

Here, we were just playing around with the pen tool and selecting objects.

Here I have selected the car and deleted the background out of it and replaced it with a sky. Then I applied a gradient over the sky layer.

Here we were learning about layer masks.  above is my image. 

This is another image I did using a mask.

Here I tried using a layer mask to blend the snake into the banana. Bus aswell as using a layer mask, I had to use an adjustment layer with a colour balance to make the snake the right colour.

I out the hippo on a layer mask then deleted its body so its just its head showing. Then I used a colour balance to get the the colour the same as the lizard.

HEre on the adjustment layer I deleted the colour balance off the mouth so that the right colour shows through, also I added some highlights onto the head.

Then I used the clone stamp to copy some of the scales off the lizard and onto the head to make it look more real.

These screenshots above are showing the process I did to put a hippo's head on a lizard. The tools I used to do this were, layer masks, clone stamp, liquify, and colour balance.

Here I'm using the free transform tool to move the leopard into place.

Then in the liquify panel, using the smudge tool pushing parts of the leopard into place to match the rhino.

Here I'm using different blending modes to see which one looks the best.

These screenshots above are showing the process I used to put a leopards skin on a rhino. To do this I used the overlay filter, liquify tool, clone stamp, and layer masks.

Here is the original image I'm going to use to make another image.

Here I used hue and saturation to change just the green colours.

Then here I applied a gradient over everything.

Here I used the brush tool to create white strokes across the image, then I used gaussian blur to make them a little blurry.

Here I added the plane into the image but lowered the opacity and changed the blending mode.

Here I added the shark in, by cutting him out with a layer mask, then playing around with the blending modes to make it look right.

Above are screenshots of the process I did to make this image from scratch using source images. The tools needed for this were different filters, gradients, colour balence adjustment layer, and the ocean ripple tool. Brush tool for the light shafts with gaussian blur over the top.

Here I've got a picture of an apple and a cube outline, the cube layer is over the top of the apple so I can use it as a guideline.

Here I've opened up the liquify menu and started pushing the apple so that it fits inside the square.

Here I'm outlining the cube with the freeze tool inside the liquify menu so that when I'm pushing the apple around it wont go out of the selected area.

My apple is now the right shape, I just needed to make some adjustments on the edges with an eraser.

Now im putting in some shadow, by using a black soft brush underneath the apple layer then putting some gaussian blur over it.

Now I'm putting a side shadow in to make it look slightly more real, same process with a gaussian blur over it.

Now i'm putting in my sliced apple, I did this by selecting the area I wanted with the lasso tool, then copying my sliced apple so that it goes into my clipboard. Then, I went edit- past special so that it pastes into my selection.

Then still selected, I used the burn tool toon the edges of the sliced part to make it slightly more real.