1. Choose an old photograph.
Scan and open in Photoshop.
This is one I found on the web of Cleo de Merode

2. Find an image of a butterfly or wings.
Be sure they are compatible in size to
your wingless figure...or adjust accordingly.
3.I hand tinted this photo to match with the wings a bit.
See my previous handtinting tutorial.
4. Drag this layer down to the duplicate layer icon
on the layers palette. We're going to make a butterfly sandwich. :-)
5. Now open up the butterfly image and select the wings (not the background) to copy..
I did this on mine by clicking on the white background with the
Magic Wand tool. This selects all the white.
6. The I selected the inverse...now only the wings are selected, not the white background.

7.With the wings still selected (they have the "marching ants" around them)
copy and paste between the layers of Cleo.
8. Slide down the opacity of the top layer of Cleo so that you can see the wings beneath.
9.Using the lasso tool, roughly circle one of the wings, cut and paste.
10. Now you have a layer for each wing.
11. Work with one wing at a time.Use the Transform Command to scale up or down, rotate
or even skew the perspective of each wing.
12.To rotate, grab the corner of the box and drag around. Position each wing just right.
 13. Working on the top Cleo layer, with the eraser tool, erase down to the wings on the OUTSIDE of her body.
Do the same to each side of her so that both wings are exposed. Slide the opacity of the top layer
up to 100% and fine tune your eraser work.

14. I adjusted Cleo so that she's not such a Grey Lady. Image/Adjustment/Brightness/Contrast.
Remember what you do to adjust the top layer must also be duplicated on the bottom layer.
They have to match up. When you are happy with the results flatten the image.(Layer/Flatten Image)
 Here's Cleo with wings.
Click here for more winged creatures I've made using this technique.