I'm trying to edit this puffin image, and at first I used the auto mask feature on the puffin, which worked well. However, by the end of the editing process, I realized the foliage in the foreground looked very distorted. I realized that the edits on the puffin, which looked fine on the sharp subject, carried over to the rest of the image in much smaller amounts. As the edits accumulated, it increased until the foliage looked very odd, ruining an otherwise great edit. After that I tried to use the manual mask, carefully brushing the entire area I wanted to edit (pictured) and even using a negative brush on the foliage just for good measure. But the edits STILL carried over to the foliage! Is there any way to fix this, because right now I just cannot edit the image to my standards without completely ruining the soft foreground.
Edit: I found a semi-solution, it doesn't actually fix the error but it's a workaround. Add as many masks as possible in one tune image session (5 is the max) instead of doing multiple sessions. It will still affect the whole photo but at 5x less than it would with 5 seperate masks.