Now add the Gaussian Blur effect by going to and set a radius of 5px.
Your image should now look like this:
I don’t like that little imperfection we have in our hand stock, so we’re going to remove it. Select the Spot Healing Brush Tool (J) and with the hand layer selected, click in that bruise.
With the bruise removed, your image should be similar to this one:
To finish this step, as usual, create a new group to the hand and its shadow. Name the group Hand.
Step 14 Add the floating window
Open the window image and use the Pen Tool(P) to make 4 lines around the window.
Then, right click inside the path you just made and click in Make Selection
Set the Feather Radius to 0px and click OK.
Copy and paste the window into our scene. Resize it using the Free Transform Tool and check in the image below the placement.
Now select the Rectangular Marquee Tool (M) and make rectangles in the window as shown in the image below. Remember that if you hold Shift while making the selection, you’ll only be able to make squares, not rectangles, so you have to hold Shift only after you’ve finished a selection and it’s going to start another one.
After you selected everything except for the window frame, go to and name your selection Window Frame.
Now open the Premade Background, press Ctrl/Command+A to select all of it, and copy and paste it into our scene. Resize it with the Free Transform Tool and place it in the window we added before.
After the background is in place, go to and select the Window Frame selection we created before.
With the Window Frame selection on, click in the ‘Add layer mask’ button to add a layer mask to the premade background.
With the premade background added, your image should now look like this:
Now let’s add a Black and White Adjustment Layer (non-destructively). In the Black and White Adjustment Layer, select the Green Filter, clip it to our premade background and change the layer opacity of this adjustment to around 30%.
