Warping Issues (Pigeons)

Good day

I have been trying all ideas which has been uploaded on the form to edit these [removed].  This is just to assist my brother with his hobby.  I am struggling with the warping a lot.  I followed all the steps in the last post with the: Layer in white as background.  Use the blue mask. Warp your image.  This is what I am stuck with.  It does not look good.  I have been playing around with this for more than 2x days.  Is there like a course one can take?  Or more videos to assist with more details.  As I do feel there are more crucial steps in between the 5x pointer steps to assist with this that I am missing to get to the final result everyone else is getting. No one on the Pigeon community wants to help as they want to make money of this. I am uploading the picture I have and then the one I have been trying to create [removed]. 

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