Making realistic foam from photo

Hi,
I've been taking and prepping photos of a client's parts. For the most part things have been going fine. I use pen tool for tought - but round or curved - objects and for other objects I have a series of auto actions that clean them up quite nicely and quickly. For example see before and after below of an object I did. Photos were taken with Nikon D70:
I've now run into a really tough one and it's foam. I told my wife to take photos of them with black background so it's more contrasty. But I just can't seem to figure out how to get rid of the black so the result looks "foamy." Evidently, the pen tool just won't work because lines there are twoo straight. Below is example of photo and I now have about 6 photos similar with more to come. Feel free to try out whatever you recommend doing it. The photo below is reduced verison to keep the file size here small:
Any suggestion is appreciated and I hope whatever it is you suggest is fast (i.e., easy) to do :-)
Thanks,
Deaf Guy

I think using a gray background would have been better. There would still be good contrast to separate the foam from the background any fringe areas halos would be neutral gray and be easer to blend in then the darker blacker ones. I did a couple of quick tries one using the quick selection tool and refine edge to mask the foam and a second using a channel mask. Did not like what I produced.

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