brick wall self portrait

in this exercise, our assignment was to cut ourselves out of the picture on the left and make it look like we were standing in front of a brick wall(like on the right). we had to use a fill layer and make the background white, then add in the brick wall behind us. we also learned how to use mask layers, which still kind of confuses me. it was challenging to get rid of all the green around my hair, especially because it still has a green glow. i thought this exercise was interesting to learn about, but it was definitely hard to make it look not photoshopped.