Fixing Background Around Hair

[Crystal Scheuermann]

What would be the best way to select his hair to remove the cars and the bright area in the background? I have tried a few times to follow your instructions for replacing a background behind hair and just using this image with that area cloned with the grey concrete around his hair. The issue I believe I am running into is when I turn the background white, it also turns the highlights in his hair white and as a result there is the grey background showing up throughout his hair. This wouldn't be an issue if I could just mask off that area of his hair, but it is also present along the edges.

[Damien Symonds]

It's all about modifying the background that's already there, so that the new background can blend fairly seamlessly.

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[Crystal Scheuermann]

I'm not sure that I fully understand what you've done here...between the color mixer...and with the levels did you just adjust the output levels on each color? and was nothing carefully selected with the edges of the hair?

[Crystal Scheuermann]

Did you basically use a combo of levels and color mixer to change the color of the background around his hair to match that grey and then use the last layer to fill in the rest without having to come too close to the edge of his hair?

[Damien Symonds]

Correct.