OOB - making of, tutorial

OOB - making of, tutorial, a photo by Boris Mitendorfer Photography on Flickr.

Used following Out-of-bounds tutorial as a initial technique.

Screen snapshot before I added shadows outside of boundary. Later, I did following (sorry, no screen grab, I didn't save as psd file):
- I merged all layers, you see on photo above,
- selected the excavator part with color range ...
- copied the selection to new layer,
- moved it left and deformed it with Transform tool
- changed the layer to black color
- blurred the shadow layer (Gaussian blur)
- changed to multiply blend mode and opacity appr. 55%
- added layer mask and painted over the parts, I wanted to hide.
Saved.