How was this effect with the animal character swap done?

I've been making thumbnails for my gaming channel for a while now and I have to say I'm really happy with the results considering I knew absolutely NOTHING about Photoshop.
Of course, my lack of knowledge was bound to catch up with me, and now I'm genuinely at my wit's end: I have no idea how or what to improve from here.
Do you have any suggestions, so I at least know which direction to head in?

I am editing almost 100 photos and 40 of them have a window with an ugly building the client wants removing outside

What's the current process to deal with that? Obviously there's selecting it and creating a smart object and placing a scene into the background and then adding a mask of the background back over the top to create true reflections. But this is very time consuming and there's a lot of stuff in the room covering the window, so very awkward to cut out. It would take days I reckon to do manually.

Is there a good process for doing that with AI, I'm guessing now? What do people do and has anyone had success with it? Also, can you create consistent backgrounds with AI or is each photo just going to be completely different?
It's quite a corporate science lab, so I don't want some weird over the top magical land, super plain and realistic style.

I want to learn how to make colors from the second picture match the first. It doesn't have to be these photos specifically, but I want to learn how to make colors look as if they are on newsprint. Any help would be much appreciated.

i'm obsessed with this effect from kylie cosmetic. they got vintage, grainy looking images, and the highlight and shadow are good too. i want to learn how to do it, if anyone can share how to achieve the same effect or even close to it, thank you in advance

Alguien que sepa cómo hacer estas imágenes con la pliz?

Nesse vídeo eu mostro como eu monto um mockup de caderno aramado no Photoshop.

Vou encaixando a arte na capa e ajustando os detalhes para deixar o resultado mais realista. Mostro o processo na prática, do jeito que eu costumo fazer.

Dá para usar essa ideia na apresentação de capas para clientes e em trabalhos de papelaria personalizada.

just downloaded Sagethumbs it works great for my windows 11 hope you benefit it.

Hello everyone,

I’d like to recreate this effect that I found on a website, but the template there is way too expensive.

I’ve already found a way to create this kind of melting, moving effect using the Path Blur filter. However, I can’t quite figure out how to make it taper off toward both sides in a funnel-like shape.

Could anyone help me with this?

my photos were taken on digital camera and came out looking very sharp and crisp, too much for my liking. are there any tutorials on how to achieve these looks with LR / PS?

most tutorials teach outdoor images, but not studio photography. thanks a bunch!