I may have dropped a 'h' from the title somewhere...... To Sit On Parliament You Need The Skin Of A Rhino by stanokella, on Flickr
Haha brilliant! Amazing how much use you're getting from that already great looking shot of the big smoke! so how did you go about cutting out the rhino here? Looks like a top job and I want to try something similar with an elephant shot I have but getting it off the background seems a task!
It's my version of recycling! Save the planet and all that. The rhino had quite a lot of contrast from its background so I used the quick selection tool, refine edge and created a layer mask cut out. Then some fine tuning of the mask with brushes on the mask itself. On stuff with less contrast I use the pen tool to select it and then create a layer mask and refine the same way.
Ha ha nice one. Great shoppery. I slight tweak of angle and that rising steam could have added a further element of reality.