Masking Tool Exercise

Here im gonna show how to use masking tools. First i had downloaded two image from the internet..

 

Now im gonna show how to put that earth into the mouth so that it will look like the mouth were eating the earth.

First import those images into the Photoshop.

Then im gonna choose the earth image first, zoom in till it fit your screen. You just click the zoom icon at the toolbar and click on the image.

Ok. Now i had zoom in the image. Then im gonna use elliptical marquee tool to crop just the earth.

Drag down the the ellipse by left click on the mouse and hold it until you satisfied.

Here is the tips. While you hold the mouse click, click+hold space bar and you can relocate the ellipse according to the position you wanted too. Then release the space bar button and continue resizing the ellipse.

Then when you finish, click on the selection tools and just drag the selected ellipse into the mouth image.

Rename the layer with the name "earth".

Then resize the earth layer until it fit inside the mouth.

Then, select the background layer. Choose rectangular marquee tool. Drag the tool at the mouth area and select layer>new>layer via copy. 

Then, rename the new layer with "mouth". 

Drag the mouth layer up to the earth layer so that the mouth layer locate forward than the earth layer.

Then, select the mouth layer and click masking tool at the bottom of layer windows.

Select the brush tool.

Draw using the brush tool on the mouth layer and it look like you erased the drew part. Continue draw until you've seen the earth at the back of the teeth.

Once you done with the drawing, the result as below:

And its done!! Happy using the photoshop! Tq =)