One of Indian sources is brought in to be chopped and scaled
step 5 of 9
Here Indians and horses have been chopped carefully and then desaturated (image/adjust/desaturate). They will just have some color added with image/adjust/color balance tool.
step 6 of 9
Source indians and horses is duplicated (alt key), and larger one erased. Smaller one will be scaled a little larger to use between the first two. It must also be moved to layer behind the others (layer/arrange/layer send backward)
step 7 of 9
Burn tool shadows areas away from the light.
step 8 of 9
Another Indian and horse are added from other source image. After chopping and scaling to size, burn tool shades side away from light. More shadows are added to ground where horses cast shadows, then greenish cast is placed on trees with color/balance tool.
step 9 of 9
Rather blue filter is added now then reduced to 20% to brighten up whole image. Resolution is now set at 100 for uploading to contest.