Lesson 5 - Masks

This is an image I created using Photoshop's masks. I followed the tutorials (mask video: part 1, mask video: part 2, mask video: part 3), but found them to be of little help in this case. Since then I have found a new technique for masking hair, or very fine detail out (Selecting & Extracting Hair), the catch is you need to have a white background. I guess you could say that I chose a poor image to start with, but I wanted to challenge myself.

The mask: