Me as a pop icon

This is a portrait picture of me super imposed onto a picture of Lady Gaga. I rendered a picture of my face from a stock image. I feathered the image, so that the edges slowly faded away so it blends in well with the picture. I then took the picture of my face, scaled in down to the size of Lady Gaga's and aligned my facial features with hers. I cut out and feathered some skin on my face, leaving my most prominent features like my eyes and my mouth. I then used the spot healing tool to blend in my skin with Lady Gaga's. I added a warming photo filter. This helped to blend my skin and make the picture seem more realistic.
I think this photograph is very effective because it is blended well and it could be an actual person. The techniques I used to help me gain an understanding of how to blend an imagine into an other and to also use filters, levels and curves. I think the photgraph I chose of Lady Gaga was a good choice because the lighting was bright like the photograph taken of me. It was straight on and very eye catching. The text also made the picture look like a CD cover which I think was effective because it highlighted the pop genre of the photograph.