Well I am working on a hairy Michael skinpack I use photoshop mostly ,and painter. I make hair swatches in painter at 640x480 multi layered psd's then use the swatches to make ps patterns and use those to apply "hair" to a 4000x4000 skin. This works great for legs and arms. If you have painter and a good mouse or tablet you could also hand brush the hair on your base skin to you liking using a round camelhair , and a smaear round I've had great results, great technique for chest hair. hi resolution is the key to getting hair to look remotly right, make the base skin wor work at 4000x4000. you can down size it later if you feel the need 2. but any program like Lview or Irfanview can compress jpegs really tight. much tighter than PS or Painter. hope this helps a bit.. Happy Renderings, Jeff