I was wondering if anyone could spot what is fake in this photo (I'm sure you can), also let me know why you are able to spot it and how I would fix it. Thanks.

Hi funhouse4jt! I like your photo! I have seen you around, but I never got a chance to talk to you. This beautiful woman is your girlfriend right? The object that looks fake to me is her hair. It looks like you cut the hair from something else and transferred it to her head. I would have used no feathering or blur around the edges of her hair. If you hate the harshness of the edges after you cut something out, then you may want to experiment with a Photoshop action I use sometimes called cutouts blending action that I got from a website called Ardis Creative. It may work for you. Someone else on here may have a better suggestion for you on what to do with her hair, there's so many ways of doing things in Photoshop. It also looks like you may have added some makeup around her eyes, but I may be wrong about that, but it doesn't look odd at all. Here's the link to the website page where you can download that Photoshop action (Feel free to let me know if this is an illegal link everybody. The website isn't a marketplace.):

http://www.ardis-creative.com/download-photoshop-actions-cutouts-blending.html

I hope my comment/criticism helps you!

I would agree with Dee, I would add there are a number off hair brushes for Photoshop out there and I've even made my own. I use this especially if I cut out hair from one image to add to another. I might use a combination of said brushes with brush settings to paint in colors not usually set at 100% or the smudge tool, also be careful with your percentages, there as well.

Also I might ask if you altered this image in PS did you use the new in PS 2015.5 face aware filter? The reason I'm asking is her eyes look a tad to large. Not that would be wrong if her eyes are large...I'd be jealous, lol. With age my eyes have gone all squinty.

I saw your original post on this and think you've come a long way on this project!

Cheers, CT

Thanks guys, yes the only thing that is fake is the hair. I didn't copy it from something else though. I painted it on myself using a black fill background and layering colors over it with a hair brush that I made. Oh, I'm using the old PS7.

One thing I found also is that I don't care for the blur around the edge of the hair either. I had thought of making it sharp and sharpening the hair itself (which looked good) but it didn't blend well with the photo of the girl itself.

I don't know if it's the focal distance, but it looks a little fish-eye to me ... the eyes seem too large. If that is natural for her, wow, she has large eyes and that is so cool.

Boni posted at 6:09PM Thu, 22 September 2016 - #4284381

I don't know if it's the focal distance, but it looks a little fish-eye to me ... the eyes seem too large. If that is natural for her, wow, she has large eyes and that is so cool.

Well, the hair is actually the only thing I did lol.

Gorgeous! I knew a girl in high school who eveyone though had glasses lenses that magnified her eyes ... but when she took her glasses off for school pictures, they were amazed that they were larger than expected, so ... my bad.

I just keep trying new things but it just still doesn't look right. Everyone seems to agree that the blur on the edges is what is the problem, right?

Yes, that seems to be the issue.

Right funhouse4jt. Did you blur the edges after you finished brushing on all the hair? Also, did you put some of the hair on different layers and use different blend modes for each layer? Maybe that will help sharpen parts of her hair without having to use the sharpening filter. I came across all of that in the tutorial below:

https://design.tutsplus.com/tutorials/an-introduction-to-painting-realistic-hair-in-adobe-photoshop--cms-24251

I have another tutorial that you may want to check out funhouse4jt. This is a tutorial on how to do realistic hair. Maybe this tutorial will help you get the sharpness you're looking for.

http://sheridan-j.deviantart.com/art/Painting-Hair-Part-1-Intro-214400227