First photoshop experience -- almost a nightmare

Today was rather exciting. For the first time ever I began to use photoshop. Now I will not call myself an expert because photoshop is incredibly confusing, and I feel like it could take months to figure out the endless possibilities it is known for. However, I was able to figure enough of it out to design three pictures.

This being the first of my creations. There are four separate images in this one picture. I figured out how to use layers and change opacity to give my images the effect that they are blending into together.

This is my second image, and my favourite. I used three separate images, and played around with opacity and texture. 

This is my last one of the day. As you can see there is a lot more detailing in it. Textures, dots, opacity, text, and various different images. However, for a beginner like myself this took pretty much half my day. I imagine as i become more familiar with photoshop. For the animals I had to individually go around them with a cropper and get each like the best I could. That is what probably took the most time.

Hope you enjoy. :)