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Interesting topic. Thanks.

Perhaps somewhat tangential to the "modifying reality" issue, but I found on another site the entire image from which the extract in the article linked to was taken. Someone had circled the area that's being discussed.

Looks good! -- you did a nice job blurring the background while retaining the strands of her hair.

Art

No I didn't use a mask, just a brush, but for replacing the background I think one would approach it by creating a mask for your granddaughter, extracting her, and then placing her on the new background, but I have little experience with that. I've been meaning to learn Photoshop's Quick Selection T...

Yes, the various reflections are interesting. I like the pink one especially.
May be difficult to process the buckets in the background, even with blurring, with this delicate young lady--
But I hope you give a try, I'll be very interested to see what you come up with.

What color do you think the bucket should be?
Here it is neutral, but I'm not sure it looks that good. What do you think? Maybe a new background needs to be composited in?
That's not my forte I have to admit.

Thanks Ganna. Curvemeister is a great dance partner, especially, in this case, for the neutrals ;-) Actually, my first step, I think, was to pick up the hair color from the non-green affected (viewer's) right side of her head, and paint over all of it in color blend mode. Similarly for the dress to ...

Lots of conflicting color casts here--
Interesting image to work on..
Thanks for posting.

Art

Is anyone seeing p.4?

Problem: does not show p.4

Wonder if we'll see p.4