In order to match the size of the head to the body you use the transform tool (Edit>Free Transform or Ctrl+T) Click on the corners and sides to skew it around (Img 12). Holding Shift constrains the proportions, Alt keeps it centered around the  pivot, and Ctrl allows you to skew it in fun rarely useful ways. To rotate, simply place the cursor outside the bounding tranform box and the cursor will turn into rotate arrows. By holding and dragging you can rotate the image. Holding shift while rotating allows it to snap to increments of 15º. Not enough? Right click (Img 13) and you can limit your options by taking it off free transform (essentially a longer way to accomplish what you already did by pressing Shift, Ctrl & Alt) The last option is warp. This allows you to warp the image around. (Img 14) It’s fun to play with. Give it a try. For this simple demonstration it’s likely all you’ll need is the free transform constrained with shift, which is the same as scale tranform while holding shift (Edit>Transform>Scale). Hit enter to commit the changes.
If you want to distort the image further there’s a great deal of ways. The blur  and smudge  tool (R/Shift+R) allow you to blur parts of the image or push parts of the image around. You can control just how much push by controlling the strength slider in the ‘Options panel’ (Img 15) Remember that when using any tool that involves a brush the square brackets ([ and ]) can increase and decrease the size of the brush, while shift+[ and shift+] changes the edge blur.
I’ll give you one more way to transform this head and then we’ll move on to color correction.
Under Filters>Liquify... and Filter>Distort>(any of them) are fun options to play around with. In general my advice is to avoid filters unless they’re absolutely necessary. There are some advanced techniques that can be done with them, but even the slightest use of most of them labels the artist an amateur. Don’t be that guy.
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