Hi, BobbyMac!
In this discussion, I’ll use red to describe your old background and green to describe your new one.
What happens when you have a person with wispy hair against a red background and then you try to move him to a green background? The hair is going to look sort of red. Why is this? It’s because the pixels that make up the "hair" are not completely hair-colored. They are sort of half hair-colored and half red! So what you need now is half hair-colored and half green. No amount of careful masking is going to give you this.
So here’s what you need to do. This is really much quicker to do than to say:
1) Do what’s necessary to mask away the hair that has any red.
2) Make a new layer.
3) Choose a color that’s a bit lighter than your hair color.
4) Use a one-pixel brush with a little blur applied and paint in the hair
wisps. This will look awful.
5) Take an eraser with a large soft brush and about 50% flow and erase around the ends of the hair so that they are not blunt.
6) Reduce the opacity of this layer till it looks like real hair wisps.
7) Make another layer and repeat the above, if necessary.
Have fun!
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