Photoshop Tutorial Assignment: Phantom Deer in a Nature Landscape

This week I was instructed to follow any free, simple photoshop tutorials online that was within my reach, so I decided to go for a ghost figure in a nature landscape. Since I could only get the deer picture they provided me with, I had to use one of the landscape pictures I took myself from my nature/landscape photoshoot. I wanted a misty, blue sky background behind the landscape, so I had to edit that in before I made my phantom ghost.

I consider this tutorial to be intermediate. I struggled a lot with the layering of distortions to make the deer look translucent, and I go seriously annoyed with the quick select tool, which really wasn't all that quick.
 Looking at the final photo, I decided that I could've done better, but I just needed to get this tutorial assignment done and move on to the next one. The next time I do this tutorial, I will highlight the phantom deer much better!

Tutorial Link: http://www.photoshopstar.com/effects/ghost-in-the-landscape/