
Glad you like it Steve! (And thanks Gordon.) Patrick had it right - move the background from the right side over to the left side. Details:
* Select the white area with the
Select > Color Range ... tool. Set the fuzziness fairly high, you want the selection to cut into the hair by only the very slightest bit. Don't worry about all the rest of the picture that gets selected.
* Deselect the parts of the selection that aren't the white background with the
lasso and the
option (alt) key held down. With this image it's easy to do - there will be a big gap between the part we want selected and the part we are de-selecting.
* Use the
clone brush with a size about as wide as her finger, to move the striped background from the right side to the left. Be careful to keep it all aligned, and guestimate where it should be to line up with the pattern on the right. It needn't be perfect.
This almost finished it, but the smooth hairline on the left didn't fit with the frizzies she has on the right. So ...
* Select a rectangle around some of her hair frizzies on the right. Copy the selection.
* Create a new window the size of the copied portion (the default size) and paste the copied hairling into the new window.
* Do
Image > Rotate Canvas > Flip Canvas Horizontal.
* Use
Edit > Free Transform to rotate the hairline until it matches the angle of a portion of the left side of her head.
* Set the
Clone Stamp source area in this rotated image. Pick a spot where the gray stripe changes tone right at the edge of her head.
* Go back to the image's window and
de-select the rectangle of hair frizzies.
* Now brush in frizzies with a small
clone brush. Be hap-hazzard about it, so it doesn't resemble the original.
* Do this with several different samples of frizzies. Keep the angle as true to the original as possible, and pay attention to the line of the stripes.
* Finally, use a small, hard
History Brush with the history set to the state before the white background was cloned out. Carefully restore any hilights and lost detail from the
inside of her hairline.
Then you are done.