How to place a subject on a different background and restore an obscured part of the subject?

[michaeljsv]

Ok. thanks. Now, to further complicate things...One photo is of a grassy pasture.  One is of an animal in a zoo type setting. I want to select only the animal and place it in the grassy pasture and, due to a cage fence covering part of the leg, I would need to then conceal that portion. I just cannot get either of those processes done...Not sure how complicated that is!

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[Bojan Živković]

You will probably need to use cloning tools (Clone Stamp) to cover missing part by sampling and replicating from some other area which contains similar pixels (pieces) which are missing.

[davescm]

As Bojan said,  it sounds like masking then cloning will achieve what you want. Don't rule out cloning a bush or similar into the composite to cover up the missing porion i.e. you don't necessarily  need to rebuild the animal.  If you post the two images we may be able to advise further.

Dave

[Trevor.Dennis]

Regards cloning in part of a bush to hide stuff, I use Filter > Render > Tree for this sort of thing.  They are remarkably realistic, and there are no issues with masking.

But if you can restore the missing leg area that would be better.  Either from another part of the same animal, or from an online image.  If you paste the images in this thread, we'll be able to give much better answers.  No need to mess about with the forum image widget.  Just copy to clipboard and paste in this thread