Make A Composite Graphic In Photoshop Elements

Here's the step by step of the Saints vs. Lions graphic I displayed yesterday in facebook.

First the background layer. The splatters were an afterthought. Too gory?

I really had the fleur de lis on my computer from an earlier graphic.

I put the Lions' logo atop the Saints' logo so I could mask out parts of the lion to look like the fleur de lis went through it.

The simplify layer command is like the rasterize command in PSCS5. It makes the text an object that can be transformed.

The only step I haven't shown is the crop to the final shape & size.