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I have selected the women and copied her on to a new layer. I have masked her where the main branches are and where some of the foliage is. It makes this step easier if you lower the opacity on the women to where you can see the branches through her, then just paint the mask to reflect what branches you want to see. You don't have to get all the branches to maintain the illusion that she is back there.

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Next I selected the women, then on the background layer, copy the selected area of the women to a new layer. Shut of all layers but the new one and did a channels based selection to get the leaves.

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keep in mind that this will just reveal the areas that I left out in the previous layer.

This layer when the mask is applied looks like this.

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These 3 layers together

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Then I did a layer to dodge and burn to make lighting a little better.

Final result.

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Total time w/trial and error about 30 minutes.