Photoshop: "Fool the Eye" (Trompe L'Oeil)

Today we are going to begin the Trompe L'Oeil (Fool the Eye) project -- basically a project where you take multiple images and put them together in the same scene smoothly.  It's similar to the "Project Frankenstein" project except that you are creating a scene instead of a face.

Some examples of Fool the Eye projects:

 

 

Here are some components showing how this project can be done:

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