I’m not sure, other than for the fun of it, why you would need to Photoshop Hair and Fur but the technique certainly seems realistic.
If you haven’t already, you will at some point in your design career be forced to composite hair or fur into a project. The specific reason isn’t important. But how are you going to do it? Use a plugin? Not any of the ones I’ve seen. Copy and paste hair from another image? Too much of a pain, what with the complex masking and color matching. So what will you do, paint the hair follicle by follicle? Absolutely. But it isn’t anywhere near as time-consuming as it sounds. With the tools available in the Photoshop 7 Paint Engine, you can generate hair and fur with as much detail as you like in almost no time at all.
Rather than thinking of it as a specific technique the article has great value in helping explore parts of photoshop many people will ordinarily never consider using. Just for that I give it a thumbs up, making my friends look like extreme-bearded freaks is only a bonus!
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