collage help

ok so i have no idea how to work photoshop but i was hoping someone could spread their knowledge. i want to kinda blend these three pics.

http://www.localaccess.com/burger/brazil/brazil.jpg
http://www.stayxs.com/brazil/images/brazil-map.jpg
http://naganojet.com/brazil-flag.gif

and i wanted it to kinda look like this
http://italiansoap.com/italy_flag.jpg

thank you so much to anyone who can help!

I think there are several posts on this site dealing with layer masking. Which is what you are looking for.

:::Start Crash course:::

Open all 3 images....

On the flag image make a copy of the background layer.... then hide your background layer.... Click the quickmask icon on the layer pallet hit D to reset your colors to black/white now with the gradient tool click and drag (right to left) over the entire width of the image and release... You'll see the results

Now drag the other images into that image and do the same steps to those newly created layers as you wish.



::::end crash course::::

hey thx a lot. i appreciate the help!