Select the magnetic lasso from the tool palette and cut around the elephant make sure the lasso does not select anything you want to keep it is better to go a bit wide with the lasso and clean up later with the eraser tool

Position the elephant layer in the scene

The elephant looks a bit flat in the scene, so we need to plant it on the ground by creating a shadow, duplicate the elephant layer .

 

With the duplicated layer selected go to menu / image /adjustments / brightness contrast and set the following settings click ok

go to edit transform free transform adjust the image so it roughly looks like a shadow

Organise layers so the elephant layer is above the shadow layer and adjust the fill opacity to about 50%

 

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