lady among mountain side

With my picture what I was trying to come across was kind of like a forest enchantment. The mountains that I used for the top part of the picture was the pictures that I took from last summer in June when I went to Tenn. What I used that really came in handy was the cropping technique is what I think of it as where you can take piece of the actual picture that you want and using another tool on photo shop you click the add button and it adds it to the picture you originally have. I did the same for the waterfall I took that picture as well in Tenn. at Gatlinburg actually along the strip of all the little malls that they have up and down the road. With it I did the same I cropped a piece of the waterfall that I wanted to add to my original picture and placed it where I wanted. The bottom piece of the waterfall was a piece that I took going up towards Cherokee village it was a little stream on the road side so I cropped it and added it to the bottom part to kind it make have the effect of it calming down into a stream and not make it look so rough as the beginning of the waterfall. On the side of the women i wanted to add some flowers to show it more of a woods type effect so I had taken a picture of some flowers in my moms backyard and just added them to the picture. With the tiger Lilly those are my favorite flower so im always taking pictures of them whenever i see them. What I was trying to do to make the women blend more into the setting of the background she was in I added that to her head but I didn't want to make it stand out to much being afraid it would take away from the rest of the picture so I did the screen fade where its still there, but it doesn't give that effect of standing out when you look at the picture. For being my first photo shop picture I wouldn't necessarily say I was satisfied, but not being familiar with all the tools and techniques of photo shop im pleased with what I had come up with. Some troubles that I had come bout was the image size of the other pictures like I was wanting to add a butterfly, but couldn't figure out how to make it smaller. Another issue that I came bout was the rotation of some things that I added when I tried to rotate it seemed to turn the hole picture itself and not the image i selected. The last issue that seemed to give me some trouble was on the women i was wanting to blend her skin in a little more and make it less shiny as to what the photo already showed, but couldn't master the concept of it. I did use the tool I think it was the stamp and the blemishing tool where it blended some parts of the skin in that I wanted to make better but as far as the whole face I didn't do.