Silly Photoshop homework

One of my classes at the art academy is digital techniques. At the moment, we're learning how to use photoshop. Our homework was to take a photo of ourselves and paste our image onto a new background with the help of the masking tool. I've never used the masking tool (this way), so I'm rather proud of the result. I added a shadow for good measure too ^^

Before

I'm at Campzone 2007, watching two members of the staf doing weird poses on the edge of the newly developed ocean:

After

I'm in Australia admiring a beautiful mushroom next to the Bibulmum track when it ran through some dunes:

After 2

I realised the shading on me is from the wrong side, so I mirrored my mini-me and switched her to the other side ot the mushroom.