After that, paint the shadow of the elephant’s trunk in the balloon like in the image below:
Now we’re going to add a Gaussian blur to make the shadow more realistic. Go to and set the radius to 5px.
Your image should look like this now:
To finish this step, as usual, add the elephant and its shadow to a new group called Elephant.
Step 18 Add the horse holding the ladder
Open the horse stock and select it using the Quick Selection Tool(W).
Copy and paste the horse into our image, resize it using the Free Transform Tool (Ctrl/Command+T) and place it next to the ladder.
Now add a Color Balance Adjustment Layer (non-destructively, as usual) and see the image below for the input values.
Remember to clip the adjustment to the horse layer, because that’s the only thing we want the effect to be applied to.
Add a Level Adjustment Layer non-destructively, and push the middle arrow a little bit to the right (0,95). Clip this adjustment to our horse layer as well.
Your horse should now look like this:
Now we have to make it look like the horse is holding the ladder, so we’re going to play with the Puppet Warp Tool again.
Go to and add 6 anchor points in the horse (see image below for reference).
Follow the arrows in the image above and move the front legs of the horse closer to the ladder, and then you should have something like this:
To fix the horsehair, we’re going to do the same thing that we did with the hair of the girls. Select the Smudge Tool again and with a small brush click and drag the horsehair following the image below.
Add the shadow of the horse in the turtle like we did before, create a new layer called Shadow and place it behind the horse layer.
Now open the turtle group and Ctrl/Command click the thumbnail of the turtle. After that, paint the shadow with a hard brush following the image below.
Go to and set the Radius to around 3px.
Your image should be similar to this one now:
To finish this step, add these last layer we created in a group called Horse and place it behind the ladder group.
