Friggenfrustrated Cs2 Help

[huxley]

i think the picture is great without the hawk. but if you are really into keeping the hawk the only thing i can recommend is using the rule of thirds a.k.a golden rule. mentally divide your photo in thirds. (tic-tac-toe grid) and where the lines intersect is where the hawk placement will be more pleasing to the eye.....

[semperaggie]

I will have to try your method, John, for the Canada geese that never want to fly into the middle of my sunset picture! :)

[luis_relampago]

There is many techniques to do this but the fastest one for me is this::
I open the windmill pic as my background and open the falcon picture on a separated layer and I put a threshold adjustment layer and manipulated the falcon image till I get a black n white rendition, after that I open the magic eraser tool and I erase on the actual layer and that gave me a clean selection of the falcon by it self, after that drag and drop it to the windmill composition and I change the falcon layer mode to darken color and that was it.
here it is

P.S.
the image was kind of grainy so I blur the channels a bit to give a smoother feel, also a curve adjustment to boost the color just a little bit.