The first thing I did was cut out the girl from he original background. I then opened up the background photo (the road) and played with the levels and the color balance until I was happy with it. I selected the girl and copied it then pasted it onto the road background. I then took a photo of some clouds out of my own stock and placed it where the sky goes to give it more emotion. Played with the levels and the color balance until I thought it matched pretty well with the road background. I then took the picture of the hanging ball.. and I placed the girl on top of it.. I lowered the opacity of the girl and set the layer to softlight. I masked the girl layer and got rid of the dress over the iron around the ball to make her look like she is really in it.. play around with different textures until your happy and wholla your done... anyone can make photomanipulations if you have GIMP or Photoshop and a lot of patience! hope this was helpful!
Goodnight,
Korin
