Using select and mask and the refine edge brush to mask off hair from a solid colour background. This method works best on a solid contrasting coloured background.
For those of you who have a studio and use paper roll backdrops. A tutorial that I did for my back to school sessions, to change props into more of a digital painterly feel by using some simple tools like dodge and burn and curves to change lighting. Practice Backdrops available in zip file.
Mermaid beach composite by Makememagical's Katie Forshaw.
Watch Katie transform a regular under exposed file taken before sunset, into a magical image with glowing planet and added shell and starfish stock.
See how to make reflections in water, paint hair, change colours of objects, add splashes ...
Setting up your photo for a water reflection
Creating a displacement map
Adding the displacement map to the duplicated water image
Sample Displacement map supplied in zip file/psd file attached