Week 7 Masking Hair Exercise

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After making a selection, go to Select - Refine Edge to clean up the edges of your selection.
This is how you can pick up messy or fly-away hair as part of your mask.

Adding in a new background.

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When you open Camera Raw the first thing you should adjust is the Lens Correction.

The second thing you should do when you first open Camera Raw is tick 'Remove Chromatic Aberration'.

After that you can then go ahead and adjust the Temperature, Exposure, Highlights and Shadows etc.

Create a Layer Mask using the selection tools and Refine Edge. Then apply that to a new Hue/Saturation layer, invert the selection, and adjust the saturation.

The background is now less saturated to make it contrast more with the foreground.