Help with montage

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brittni from virginia, US, using photoshop 7 with PC , writes in with:

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I need to put a picture into an eye and into a window of a building or anything else of this sort. i know how to change backgrounds and things of that sort but cannot figure out how to apply images into another object and cannot find a single tutorial on how to do it. please help?
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Photoshop 911 Says:

Drage the new image into the destination image. It appears on a new layer. Set that layer's opacity to about 50%

Now, scale the new image until it fits the destination position perfectly. Reset it's opacity to 100% -- click the EYE icon in the layers palette to turn off the new image

Now using your selection tools, make a selection of the exact area where the new image is to appear.

While the selection is active, return to the new image layer, click its EYE to make it visible, click on it to make it the active layer and then do Command / J (Cntrl/J) which will "float" a copy of the selection to a new layer.

Click the EYE icon again of the new layer to hide it.

Your new image selection should appear in the place in the original image.

There are many other ways to do this -- particularly using a layer clipping mask. But this way is easy and requires the least amount of instruction.

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