The
original here was a picture I took in Paris last year
at the flower market on the Ile de Cité in Paris. The
wing on one of the roosters reminded me of the teardrop
shape of a hot-air balloon, so I built a balloon that
incorporated some of the wing features, then added a selected
rooster head in overlay. The street view of the Eiffel
Tower is another Paris shot:
http://www.rewarren.com/Paris-2006/Thursday/pages/P5-23-Rue-Ste-Dominique.htm
with a gradient substituted for the sky. I added a shadow
to the tower and then applied a poster edges filter for
the overall dark look.