Hi Everyone, and Merry Xmas for starters. I'm attaching this image that I would like to duplicate the effects I'm extremely new to Photoshop, so any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Very cool effect. To me, it appears to be three photographs superimposed one upon the other. One of the woman in the doorway and one of the doorway by itself. On second thought, it's more likely one photograph of a woman who has been body-painted to blend with the doorway. Body-painting to produce images like this is a "hot technique" the last couple years.

looks a bit like Antoonio's recent work, give him a shout

Is this the effect your going for? Just make a free standing copy of your model and past it in the background pic (mines the flowers). CTRL-left click on your model in the layers pallet to select it (the walking ants line), then left click the background layer and make a copy in the form of your model ( lets call it bodypaint). Left click on bodypaint in the layers pallet and drag it over your model. Select bodypaint and in the layers pallet where you see normal select color burn. Now all have to do (if you want) is to add some drop shadow. if you need anymore help (like what the hell im talking about) just call , hope it helps

PS. when your done,you might want to drop the contrast of your model just a tad.

WHILE YOUR AT IT IN PHOTOSHOP YOU SHOULD ADD A DISPLACE MAP TO THE IMAGE. BASICLY DUPLICATE YOUR IMAGE (OR THE PART IN WHICH YOU WANT THE TEXTURE TO SO-IN-SO "MAP" AND TURN IT TO GRAYSCALE. SAVE THAT GRAYSCALE AS A SEPERATE FILE. NOW IN YOUR ORIGINAL, SELECT THE TEXTURE LAYER AND UNDER FILTERS FIND DISPLACE AND LOAD IN THE GRAYSCALE IMAGE. WHAT THIS DOES IS IT USES THE LIGHTS AND DARKS OF THE GRAYSCALE IMAGE TO DETERMINE HOW THE TEXTURE WILL LAY ON THE OBJECT. ITS QUITE COOL ONCE YOU FIGURE IT OUT.