Manipulation Task 2 - 2 images

This task involved having 2 separate images and creating a new image from them.    To do this, I opened both images in Photoshop CS5.  One image is of a monkey at Twycross Zoo.  The image was too dark so I lightened the image initially by clicking on Image, Adjustment, Brightness and altering the brightness.  The second image is of a white brick wall which i wanted to put the monkey against.   Using the magnetic lasso tool, I "drew" around the image of the monkey using the mouse and then copied and pasted it into the second image.   I clicked on the transform control button.  I then added some text, very simple text, in yellow and written backwards.    I have not spent hours on this image as I am getting used to the settings however I can see and will show in future manipulation just how fantastic it can be.