Clone & heal the squirrel. Select the chair and mask.
Select the mum and mask, place her in chair.
step 3 of 9
Duplicate squirrel head for mum and baby and scale.
step 4 of 9
Change chair/background. Much time was spent finding the right sources.
step 5 of 9
Select, mask, scale and place woman's hat, tophat and pipe.
step 6 of 9
Select, mask and place tail. Smudge edges to create fine hair.
step 7 of 9
Now for the fun part, yummy: use soft brush for shadows, soft brush for blush for mum and pinkish face for baby.
Paint eye for mum.
step 8 of 9
Flatten the image for lighting effects.
a Layer for the brighter and whiter light from lamp: use floodlight.
a Layer for the warm glow from fire: use spotlight with orange colour.
a Layer for fire : use directional lighting
Mask for best effect.
step 9 of 9
Use dodge for highlights.
Unsharp mask as top layer, mask those parts not wanted.