Tweaking and integrating the hair

In this exercise we are going to refine our composition to get rid of some of…these chunks of hair, they almost look like tiny little sticks coming out of her…head and better integrate this foreground image with its new background.…I've saved my progress as Clumpy hair. psd, found inside the 04_tough folder.…As is so often the case, I am going to integrate the image using two versions of itself.…So I will start by selecting this model layer here inside the layers panel and…pressing Ctrl+J or Command+J on the Mac in order to jump it to a new layer.…

Then I will turn that duplicate layer off, click on the original layer to…select it, and let's go ahead and rename this layer brighten because that's the…purpose it will serve.…I am going to click on the layer Mask thumbnail in order to select it, and what…I want to do is spread this mask outward, so basically, allow the mass to better…bleed into the hair details associated with that original foreground image.…To do that I will go up to the Select menu and choose the Refine Mask…