Used pieces of rock to cover the man with, used multiply for blend mode. Added more rocks behind him. Used clone stamp with background to blend. Masked rock climber. Copied onto rock image.

Credit goes to Ruslan for providing the muscle-man image.

Thanks to hesselink at morguefile for the castle ruins photo; to clarita at morguefile for the mountain goat; to mqtrf for the stone stairs at pxleyes; and to xandert at morguefile for the dead tree photo;

simple comp using 3 external sources and sign illustration (that I couldn't get to look any more realistic)

I used one external source
thanks to http://www.sxc.hu/photo/873518

Author: krayker