Specific Blend photos to look more realistic

[xxnonamexx]

I am having an issue blending my kids into this photo to look more natural as well as the dogs fur is too sharp and appears unnatural.



I also tried to add a red nose to the dog but it looks too fake.

I hope someone can please edit these together where they look realistic!
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[Rich54]

Can you please attach the original photo of the dog before you made any changes to it or attempted to isolate him? The photo you attached is very hard to work with.

 

[xxnonamexx]

Thanks heres the original

 

[Rich54]

Much better photo of the dog! It's a very difficult selection.

Here's my try at the composite. Let me know if the dog has too much brown fur. I can lighten him/her up if it's too dark.

 

[xxnonamexx]

@Rich54 Looks excellent. Are you able to make the dogs nose glowing red? I tried but it looks to fake and not sure how to make it glow thanks

 

[Rich54]

Much easier to get a glow against a dark background. The dog is light-colored, which makes it harder. Here's a try.
(I also made the dog slightly smaller. Even with foreshortening, he seemed too big to me.)

 

[xxnonamexx]

Not bad I was getting the same and tried to make the surrounding of the nose shiny light red to make it look more natural but can't get it to glow right

 

[Rich54]

What about something like this? Is this better?

 

[xxnonamexx]

I like that better are you able to add the red glow to fade out further like the deer image i posted of the deer where the light fades out further to a pink hue. I just want to see if that does anything for the image. Thanks again

 

[Rich54]

Here's one where the glow extends farther out. I personally prefer the one I posted immediately above. What do you think?

 

[xxnonamexx]

The one above with less glow going further out looks better I think with less white in the middle like the latest one.

 

[Rich54]

Ok, I think this is the one.