Digital Art: Survey and Practice

I was concerned about matching the dog in my picture to the human figures because several of my human figures have some form of bright sunlight hitting them whereas the dog picture was taken on a cloudy day. I found this superb quick, easy and to the point video tutorial that shows a way to add sunlight. I figured out a way to make a few adjustments to it to apply it to what I'm doing. Instead of the regular lasso too, I can use the magnetic lasso tool to make a selection around the part of the dog I want the sunlight to hit. I didn't have to use a gaussian blur, but instead was able to change the lighting to overlay and I got the effect I was looking for. I'll need to really lower the opacity to make sure the dog isn't too bright on one side. After lowering the opacity, I was able to really tone down the contrast from each side of the dog but there was a still a dividing line from where I drew the magnetic lasso tool. This can be fixed by selecting the smudge tool and going over the line and a few other places to hide it away. The change is subtle but it really makes a big difference overall. 

I'm probably going to do a little more work on the human figures in my picture and I want to possibly add flowers that some of them are holding so I'll have to go dig up some old pictures I took over the past summers since we're kind of in the dead of winter.