326 Masking a caricature against a new background

…Hey gang, this is Deke McKellen.…Welcome to Deke's Techniques.…Now last week, you may recall that we took this poor, unsuspecting…fellow and we turned him into…this outrageous photographic caricature in Photoshop.…Well, this week we're going to take said caricature here and we're going to mask…him against a more dramatic background in order to achieve this awesome effect.…Here, let me show you exactly how it works.…All right, as usual I want to give you a sense for things look on screen.…Here is the liquified caricature and here is…the more dramatic caricature set against a new background.…

I'm going to start things off by opening up that background…and moving it into my composition at hand, and you…can do that when the Rectangular Marquee Tool is active…by right-clicking inside the image window and choosing Duplicate Layer.…And I'll go ahead and change the document…to Liquified Caricature and then I'll click OK.…And now I'll switch over to that document, Liquified Caricature.psd, and you can…see I have a new layer called Background at the top of the stack.…