How we create REFUSION #01 news

How we lay in the hay... ahem grass:

1) At the beginning we collected the grass and took pictures of it.... in home conditions :)

2) Then we cut out the carpet :)

3) Then we desaturated and contrasted the grass...

4) ...and masked it:

5) Then we took the created mask and applied it to the original picture:

6) Then we cropped the grass bit more, to get rid of the bright pixels at the blade's edges, which would mess up the picture at the final stage:

7) In the end we just left the grass (respectively the RGB component) to seep into the free space surrounding it:

8) Final results can be seen here: