step 1 of 4
Started with the picture of my little friend and cut out the part I wanted to use

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step 2 of 4
Cut out just the lizard and desaturated it.
step 3 of 4
Used the shape from step 2 to remove the colors from the source image
step 4 of 4
Put the color cutout over the desaturated little guy and set that layer as "Overlay" then put the original source in the background and gave it a gaussian blur for the finished product