I want put on image on top of another image that will be the background

Question

First, I'm a big believer in doing a "search" to find some existing tutorial to help me.  But, as with the last time I asked a question here, no other tutorial (on Youtube or Julieanne Kost's blog) addressed exactly what I needed.  I came here and got my answer immediately. (searching here seems to only default to asking a question on a new thread so here goes)
So here's my question this time:  say I have a pic of a beer bottle ( that I know how to select) and I have a landscape pic.  I want the landscape pic as the background and just place (and probably resize) the beer bottle (or frothy glass of beer or whatever) on top of the other image.  Sounds easy, right?  The tutorials on Youtube would spend forever demonstrating how to use the Pen tool and would click here and there quickly and pretty soon I'm just lost.
I'm going to provide two pics.  If it's different with putting two selected images on the same image background, please explain how to do that as well.  Like I say, the last question I had (putting a label from one bottle to another, remember?) only here did I get clear concise instructions, instructions I didn't get anywhere else.  Please be detailed.  I didn't even know how to open my layers pallette last time!

Answer 1

Hi there Below I've provided some easy steps for moving a selection from one image to another.
1. Open up both images in Photoshop - you can see that I have two open tabs, one named "Bottle" and the other named "River".
2. Grab the Quick Selection Tool from the toolbar, as highlighted below. There are other ways to make a selection (including the pen tool), but for a simple shape like a bottle or a label, the Quick Selection Tool works great.
To select the bottle, just click and drag to "brush" in your selection. To change the size of the brush, use the bracket keys [ ] on your keyboard.
3. To clean up yor selection a bit, go to Select > Refine Edge. Here you can adjust your selection. I've check the Smart Radius option and increased the selection radius a bit. When you're done, click OK.
4. Now you can move your selection over into your background. With your Bottle tab open, go to Edit > Copy (or hit command/control C on your keyboard). Go to the River tab and go to Edit > Paste (command/control V).
5. Done! The bottle now should be on a new layer with the river in the background. You can now resize or edit the bottle independently of the bacgkround layer.
If you need additional help, please feel free to post here again. In addition, I've posted two video tutorials below for you to look at. I hope this helped!
How to Merge Two Photos using Photoshop
How to merge two photos realistically using Photoshop CS6
Cheers,
Kendall