First masked the gator using a channel selection to start the mask and touched it up with brushes
step 1 of 12
step 2 of 12
Masked the rear portion of a duplicate to start the compacting
step 3 of 12
Cut out a portion of the area to the back of the legs
step 4 of 12
Move the remaining portion of the tail to fit a duplicate of the rear leg area and blended with masks
step 5 of 12
A duplicate of the rear portion was moved and blended into the was move forward and blended into the front portion to shorten the distance between the legs
step 6 of 12
Once the gator was made more compact it was flipped to get it facing the other way
step 7 of 12
Drop shadows were created and moved to their own layer. This is the body shadow with the head area masked out
step 8 of 12
This is the shadow used for the head. Again it is moved to a layer and the body portion was masked out to make the head appear higher off the ground
step 9 of 12
Portions of the ground were duplicated and using some warp transform, with skew and distort made into this layer to extend the bottom of the image to add the new gator
step 10 of 12
This is the clone layer to rid the background of repeating areas of stone and blades of grass
step 11 of 12
The blade of grass and shadow on the original gator's nose was cloned out
step 12 of 12
The grass on the nose and tail of the compacted gator was cloned out
Final result
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