How to make a frankenpet.

To follow along, here is a link to the tutorial.
http://www.worth1000.com/tutorials/161399/franken-pet

First I started out with picking 2 animal photos for the franken pet.
The Idea is to take part of the head of one animal and place it on the other animal.  This should look pretty cool when finished.

Looking at these two photos, I decided to take part of the dog's head and place it on the Koala's head.
This is done by cutting out the dog's head. and placing the layer in the koala workspace.

At this point, Re-size and rotate the dog's head into position.  It is easier if the dog's head is at an opacity of 50.  This makes the koala's head visible throughout the rotation and re-sizing.

Once the heads are in the proper place, use the lasso tool to cut into the dog's head and remove what isn't need.

   

I took the dog head layer and added a dropshadow.  Also I removed the koala's left ear because it stuck out from behind the dog.  Using a clone tool can do this.  Once you are at this point, some photoshop skills will be needed to make it look just a little more realistic.  Use the Burn tool around the edge of the dog and on the koala where the layers meet.  Also due to the lighting, I used an Innerglow set to saturation with the size set close to maximum on the dog's head.  

To finish out with the stitches, the brush tool with a light color is used.  This is done in a separate layer of course.  Blending options can give you bevel and satin look to make the stitches pop out with realism.  

 Wow, what a new creature.  Mwahahahahaha