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Superimposing means taking some of one picture and placing it in another.
For example: Placing your head on another body.

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Balloon

Field

On the photos above we are going to Superimpose the balloon onto the field image.
First rezise the balloon pic so that it is much smaller than the field pic.

There are two ways of doing this, you can cut freehand with the lasoo tool, or you can use the magic wand tool. Here is an ideal opportunity to use the magic wand tool because the background of the balloon pic is of the same color.

 

Selecting the balloon
1. Using the freehand tool.
Select the freehand tool and on the tool options menu chose point to point.
Now click on the balloon pic on where you want to start cutting out the image. Move on a bit and click and so on until all the baloon is selected.

In Photoshop hold the mouse over the freehand tool to get more
options for that tool.

2. Using the magic wand tool.
First get the dropper tool and click somewhere on the sky behind the balloon. This picks the right color. Then get the magic wand tool and click the sky, to click more of the sky hold down the shift key and click again. The amount of sky it selects on one click depends on the tolerance. A tolerance of 30 is fine for this. Then with all the sky selected go to the selections menu (or select in photoshop) and invert the selection, to select the balloon and not the sky.

With the balloon selected.
Go to edit menu and copy (or CTRL & C on the keyboard) It is then a good idea to pick the arrow or pointer tool. Then highlight the field pic and paste the balloon into the image. You can select the move tool to position the balloon where you want or select the deformation to resize the balloon.

Superimposed image

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A tolerance of 30 is fine for this.