Something Fishy
Entry guide: step 1 of 7

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I masked out the fisbowl with quickmask and copy pasted it on the lamp source that i had turned upside down first.
Entry guide: step 2 of 7

I warped the fishbowl in the right shape and after messign arround with the top part of the fishbowl for a while, i simply decided to get rid of it.
Entry guide: step 3 of 7

After I removed the top part of the bowl I used smudge with small strokes to smudge the rest of the bowl all the way up stroke by stroke and covered up with that the last few parts of the plants in the water too..
Entry guide: step 4 of 7

I rounded off the top part of the fishbowl and smudged a light spot on top out to create a water border. I duplicated the top part with that water border and flipped it vertically. I set the opacity of that layer low and blended it in with the rest of the lamp source before i merged that down to one layer.
Entry guide: step 5 of 7

I masked out the goldfish with quickmask and copy pasted it in the lamp source I erased a few of the dark outlines that I accidentally didnt lost with the masking. blurred the edges of the goldfish and smudged a few things here and there to make it more realistic again.
Entry guide: step 6 of 7

I duplicated the background layer with the lamp and put it on top. i put its opacity to 46%
Entry guide: step 7 of 7

I smudged the light reflections a little bit on the top source of the lamp that was put to opacity 46% till they looked more realistic with all those things in the water. To finalize my work i blurred some edges and smudged the edges a little where needed and changed the opacity ofsome of the sources just a little bit .
final result

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