Penguin photo by jconnor at morguefile.

Polar bear source photo

Photo of bear used for the head only. My own photo.

The lasso tool was used here to isolate an area that would be moved out to look like a piece had broken off and set afloat. Choose 'add selection' after outlining area with the lasso tool.

Edges had to be built to show thickness of ice float. this was done with cloning tool, using edges of glacier as the pattern to clone.

Penguins are masked out ready to be scaled and duplicated.

Bear is masked out with chop, then eraser tools. Final masking is with background brush set to discontiguous setting at a very low setting to take away background and leaving most of hair.

The penguins had been duplicated, then I decided to tilt the ice flow, so used rotate tool to tilt it.

Ice flow is now blended with brush tool, and also with cloning tool.

Penguins are all placed back on ice flow, some changed in size using edit/transform/scale and rotate tools. Some were moved with forward or backwards using layering tool, and then shadows were filled in to match bear shadow. Some of the penguins eyes were also emphasized using brush tool and smudge tool. Last of all brightness and contrast tools (adjust mode) were used to bring lights up. Look of snow over background was made with airbrush set at dissolve mode set at low setting rather than normal.